#The social network free movie

The business of social media has gone mainstream, enough to warrant its own movie, and that seems to be what matters now.

To make a movie about Facebook, and yet say nothing insightful about the platform or its social impact, is symptomatic of where the field of social media has ended up. This is a movie about getting rich a movie about business. The Social Network reminds us periodically that Mark Zuckerberg didnвЂ™t care about Facebook for the money, but the movie sure does. The action is punctuated by membership milestones, but these are numbers, not people, and the fact that these numbers are essential proxies for market valuation becomes abundantly clear at the movieвЂ™s climax, when membership figures and dollar figures are explicitly overlaid. You could take just about any business involved in a juicy legal dispute, and make more or less the same film. And I was thrilled to finally see a movie with a couple of scenes that were best appreciated by those with a little programming knowledge.Д«ut these elements are at the margins of the movie, details thrown in to provide local color. Sure, there are some references to MySpace and LiveJournal, a minor subplot about the consequences of indiscreet blogging, and a joke about gauging relationship status by Facebook status line. A classic business movie, anyhow.Д«ut The Social Network may be the most misleading movie title of all time: if thereвЂ™s one thing this movie is not about, itвЂ™s social networking, at least in the online sense. Those ingredients add up to a captivating experience, and a movie that could well become a classic. ItвЂ™s got Aaron Sorkin dialogue (and, hence, Aaron Sorkin tempo) and inventive structure. The Social Network takes us inside the birth of a technology that in just five years has become as ubiquitous and familiar as movies: Facebook. And itвЂ™s got Gene Kelly.ДЄnd if that werenвЂ™t enough, it takes you inside the birth of a technology - the talking motion picture - and conveys the excitement, joy and the transformational power that greeted it in such a way that even though movies are utterly familiar to us, we feel the joy and excitement, too. ItвЂ™s got classic music, extraordinary dancing and, incredible humor. SinginвЂ™ in the Rain has been my favorite movie for almost 30 years.

#The social network free movie