Something I love about this movie is how it depicts Zuckerberg as completely amoral and empty, but when it was released (2010) Facebook hadn't even done anything really bad yet - ThreadSky

annieknk.bsky.social • 47 days ago

Something I love about this movie is how it depicts Zuckerberg as completely amoral and empty, but when it was released (2010) Facebook hadn't even done anything really bad yet

Reposted from Hegelian vs. Predator

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davekornfield.bsky.social•47 days ago

Well it existed.

bosh.worstpossible.world•47 days ago

we’re going to talk about it on the show at some point because somehow fincher and (more surprisingly) sorkin absolutely nailed it

alexnichols.bsky.social•47 days ago

The Reznor/Ross score is so ominous... I swear they knew what was coming

sctadsen.bsky.social•47 days ago

And somehow the movie *still* manages to make Zuckerberg look more sympathetic than he actually is.

projectauuman.bsky.social•47 days ago

Not true. They made "pokes" and every boomer family member kept using it

dashwallkick.bsky.social•47 days ago

I really wonder if Fincher called it that hard or if it was just a happy accident for the kind of story he wanted to tell. Or maybe Sorkin's total inability to understand people helped here.

clementinedanger.bsky.social•47 days ago

All I remember was walking out of that movie thinking man, if you're fluent in evil dork this is a true love letter to a champion ghoul. Those guys LOVE to see an amoral vulture winning.

Hagiography on their terms. Kind of like how Nazis love American History X.

dashwallkick.bsky.social•47 days ago

The older I get the more I disconnect from that. Fascists are stupid and look at anything and take what they want. It's beautiful that humans can interpret art so differently but then there's gay back diaper furs who think Rage Against the Machine is about how there's too many black people on TV.

dashwallkick.bsky.social•47 days ago

Gay nazi diaper furs *

clementinedanger.bsky.social•47 days ago

Oh 100%, just saying, I'm not really understanding how people go back to that movie and think wow, what a brutal and prescient skewering because... no? That movie LOVES its subject. Raised his profile so much I hold it .2% responsible for the mess we're in now.

clementinedanger.bsky.social•47 days ago

"Wow he's the worst but also if you think about it isn't he a victim of our hatred of good boy nerds and he's so DRIVEN and MAGNETIC and SMART and he always wins, wow, it's cool when people stay winning, isn't he in some ways the best?"

No man, not even a little bit but you sure seem to think so!

annieknk.bsky.social•47 days ago

I really really cannot read that movie like this lol, but I wonder if it's a failure of my own imagination rather than you being wrong!

dashwallkick.bsky.social•47 days ago

Fincher is a guy who wears his fascinations on his sleeve. Frankly I sympathize.

blowpipe.bsky.social•47 days ago

The end where he's left totally alone on his website he made that people connect with each other on while the beatles ask how it feels is one of the best endings ever.

bisk.sureis.sexy•47 days ago

he hadn't even done that genocide yet

annieknk.bsky.social•47 days ago

Right! It feels like a movie from much later than it is

zorantaylor.bsky.social•47 days ago

Whoever designed the poster completely ripped off the (I think) second paperback printing of American Psycho, and it was a perfect choice.

zorantaylor.bsky.social•47 days ago

Minus the "beginnings and endings of words not aligning with the lines of text" part.

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