FILM REVIEW: social network nails it

The Social Network - A Columbia Pictures release.Directed by David Fincher. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Armie Hammer, Rooney Mara and Max Minghella. Rated PG-13.

Who is the real star of the social networks? Is it Director David Fincher, the occupation or the author Aaron Sorkin?Now while Fincher strong leads, and the cast does more than could be expected, is it really his Sorkin, strengths zeigt.Der writer created it was based on Ben Mezrich's book, the accidental billionaires and his own research, including the deposits in two cases against Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) - one of his best friend, Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield), and the other by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (both played by Arnie hammer).

Sorkin draws a story of innocence, ignorance, manipulation and jealousy, created to destroy revolution of communication during a friendship. It started when Zuckerberg's girlfriend Erica (Rooney Mara) backs him up. The reason for this? It has tried to keep doubling back on some conversation, as he turns subjects, with his rapid-fire and finally exhausted your insults. Does it mean? This is open to debate. After being dumped angry happens because he understand what straight, he Government back to his room and start hacking away, create a page called "Facemash" comprising women headshots from Harvard, so you can be rated. The site causes the campus servers bring crash getting the attention of the hierarchy of the University and the attention of Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, wealthy twins, together with your partner, Divya Narendra (max Minghella) have called an idea that you "Harvard Connection".Win Zuckerberg to help the site to entwickeln.Zuckerberg, turn his roommate and his only friend, Saverin, the Moneyman and makes him CFO. What happened next months development with Zuckerberg twins and Narendra Dodge, finally create an early version of Facebook.

Napster founder Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake) the Website.Er hears a New York is meeting with Zuckerberg and Saverin. Zuckerberg is blinded by Parker and the way he thumbed his nose on the music industry, but takes Saverin him not to trust a darker approach to him. This is a conflict that later sees Saverin from the image and a legal battle ousted ensue for Facebook and its value.

Sorkin framework create the story of the deposits with Fincher action in flashbacks.The deposits are versions of events, how participants werden.Unter reminds taking into account that the story is extremely addictive and Fincher's merit, it is all players and situations simply and easily - not just because. Everything in the movie seems right from the Harvard campus, the nightclubs, the legal battles.

It would be easy to say, the film is about the creation of Facebook, and it is, but it a young man who seem to fit in the traditional social setting and is going to Zuckerman, very difficult, together get.Only Saverin seems to understand and to tolerate him until he realizes that Zuckerberg leave to dry.

Eisenberg caused far and his best performance.Zuckerberg has no time for anything, that do not interest him or someone who he unimportant erachtet.Aber he has also a burning desire to be accepted and if he can, he must find a way, is accepted being able to play the Winklevoss twins with help of actor Josh pence (Hammer's face was placed on Pence's body with CGI) werden.Hammer .Garfield is the ACE here, shows a good guy to be Saverin, understood Zuckerman's error and you worked until shockingly turns his friend for him out look.

Technically, as most Fincher's work is the film top Schublade.Die production design, cinematography and score are an unbeatable Kombination.Aber nothing here would be so good if it wasn't for's Sorkin scenario, one of the many aspects of be nominated for an Oscar the film.

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MOVIE REVIEW: Allen? s? Dark stranger? fails in originality, but talented actor takes the slack

You will meet a tall dark stranger (R)
2 1/2 of 4 stars

In the last 44 years, Woody Allen 411/3 led features far more makes films for its dedicated fan base and at a time when Allen per year than any other modern day Filmemacher.Fliegend under the radar with extremely low budgets, or another has worked for every Boutique Studio in the business. These Studios know Allen's productions have limited appeal and often lose to keep money but because of the perceived prestige distribute factor.

While admirable to a degree that led so many movies in such a relatively short time frame more than a couple of poor quality with cliched concepts, some Allen's point detractors with regularity.Even for many of his fans a lot Allen's stories feel redundant and interchangeable.

This perspective changed a bunch in the excellent "match point," 2005 all of first film in set and filmed in England."You will meet a tall dark stranger" all's fourth UK-based effort and will post below by an overwhelming air of creative exhaustion gewogen.Es is not terrible, but it's yelling nothing about either.

The phrases make "careful what you want, because you it might only get" and "The grass is always greener" for perfect descriptions of Handlung.Jeder eight co leads suffers with imagined ADD and jump from the collective skins in pursuit of something you have not.In theory this is a great premise but also ADHD and Flip-flops Allen of the writer so often, his buried retrieves item under an avalanche of unneeded plot twist and tentativeness.

The most interesting character is Alfie (Anthony Hopkins), a senior in adult mid-life crisis, starts like a fiend, exercise, his wife Helena (Gemma Jones) landfill and soon will be entrusted "Actress" Charmaine (Lucy punch), a buxom woman of less than half of his age.

Helena trying to move on by the Council of a soothsayer (Pauline Collins) search, RSS feeds of their generic, fortune cookie level bite of wisdom.For Helena's daughter Sally (Naomi Watts) everything - no matter how questionable or on the level is fine, as long as it occupies the mother and the lull as you has their own set of problems.

Topping this list would Sally's ex-pat husband Roy (Josh Brolin) become a writer, who wrote but their several follow-ups have all floppte.Ein of heavy drinker work a pretty good novel a while ago as driver during the day, Roy has recently new neighbor slide (FREIDA Pinto), an engaging been distracted and dedicated musician he is determination woo and romance.

Sally is interested in starting an affair with your boss - the married Museum owner Greg (Antonio Banderas) .all is Greg only able to stay mum when it really counts and Sally lasts forever on pins and needles.

Before the first act ends, we can use the characters almost identical subjects nail down, so nothing throws in the mix as much of a surprise save for a final scenes of Roy's latest book comes out.

Thanks to the collective talent of the ensemble cast the film is better than it should be, which is a plus for the audience, screenplay hingewiesen.Wie did but also far in the glaring weakness of Allen's a decade ago, must all to slow down, take a breather and some original return; a film, the does not so flimsy and recycled feel.(Sony Classics)

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