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Two Movie Reviews
Nov. 5th, 2010 03:44 amFirst up: The Social Network
Aside from the content of the first scenes, which will lose a lot of feminists, I've got to say that Aaron Sorkin manages to create an unsympathetic opening and make the character of Mark Zuckerberg more and more likable as time went on.
In short, per one other character: "You're not an asshole, Mark. You're just trying so hard to be."
My own life has a thread running sideways to the movie: one of the characters is Sean Parker, founder of Napster -- I interviewed (for a job) with Napster in early 2000. Went with TiVo's offer instead, but the handwriting was already on the wall for Napster. Justin Timberlake did an amazing job playing Sean Parker.
Jesse Eisenberg did a great job portraying Zuckerberg -- I didn't recognize him from Adventureland.
Second film: Nowhere Boy, about John Lennon from his teens up to the time he leaves for Hamburg with the band that's been together for a few years. After seeing this movie, I kind of get Yoko Ono. John was raised by his aunt; his mother was carefree, had depressive episodes (probably bipolar), and gave him up to his aunt. His aunt was very stern and orderly -- but not a lot of fun. Yoko kind of divided the two in personality from what I know of her. He desperately wanted attention and love.
And he was really envious when other people got it and he didn't.
I really feel like I understand the person better after this film, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. That said, it is not an entirely flattering portrait.
There's also an interesting sidebar: it's a stereotype in film for a director to fall for the young starlet and have a romance. In this case, the director's female and the star male, but they are engaged and have a kid together.
Aside from the content of the first scenes, which will lose a lot of feminists, I've got to say that Aaron Sorkin manages to create an unsympathetic opening and make the character of Mark Zuckerberg more and more likable as time went on.
In short, per one other character: "You're not an asshole, Mark. You're just trying so hard to be."
My own life has a thread running sideways to the movie: one of the characters is Sean Parker, founder of Napster -- I interviewed (for a job) with Napster in early 2000. Went with TiVo's offer instead, but the handwriting was already on the wall for Napster. Justin Timberlake did an amazing job playing Sean Parker.
Jesse Eisenberg did a great job portraying Zuckerberg -- I didn't recognize him from Adventureland.
Second film: Nowhere Boy, about John Lennon from his teens up to the time he leaves for Hamburg with the band that's been together for a few years. After seeing this movie, I kind of get Yoko Ono. John was raised by his aunt; his mother was carefree, had depressive episodes (probably bipolar), and gave him up to his aunt. His aunt was very stern and orderly -- but not a lot of fun. Yoko kind of divided the two in personality from what I know of her. He desperately wanted attention and love.
And he was really envious when other people got it and he didn't.
I really feel like I understand the person better after this film, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. That said, it is not an entirely flattering portrait.
There's also an interesting sidebar: it's a stereotype in film for a director to fall for the young starlet and have a romance. In this case, the director's female and the star male, but they are engaged and have a kid together.