The Social Network

[madrobins]

I hope Jesse Eisenberg gets an Oscar™ nomination. Aaron Sorkin, too. The film manages to make you see, not only the "Mark Zuckerberg" character's ambition and his hyper-articulate inarticulateness (if he doesn't fit somewhere on the Aspergers spectrum, someone wasn't paying attention) but the fragility underneath it. Before hand I was wondering about the mix of Sorkin and David Fincher (he of Fight Club and Se7en): the film doesn't leave you elevated the way The West Wing and The American President do--but it isn't relentlessly downbeat, and the occasional creepiness is effective and earned.

I don't know how much of it is true; although it's pretty much Zuckerberg's story, it's pretty evenhanded in leaving blame lying around for all the players. But it's a damned effective piece of drama.