Why I Hate The Movie, "The Social Network" [View All]

[Yavin4]

So, I caught the movie, "The Social Network", and I hated it. Here's why. It's not because of the acting, the writing, or the direction, which were all top notch. The lead actor is tremendous, and that kid has a great future as an actor.

I hated the movie because of the subject matter. To me, the whole movie is nothing more than an orgy of narcissism, and just how self-centered our society has become. Look, Facebook was nothing new. Friendster already existed long before Facebook, and there have been other online message boards from CompuServe to AOL to MySpace to Twitter, etc. These things come and go.

To devote a motion picture to the development of Facebook as if it were some kind of cure for a horrible disease seems to be overly self indulgent when in reality it's nothing more than another, fancier message board.