The Social Network Substitutes Red Herrings For Great Social Issues (Review)

WSWS.org gives an interesting review of ” The Social Network.” Noting how SF Chronicle called the film a “hatchet job” and other describe it as the “supposedly unflattering—and, according to Zuckerberg’s defenders, false—portrayal of its subject,” WSWS find the opposite. The group says “If anything, Fincher’s film portrays Zuckerberg as a misunderstood genius forced to suffer the presence of other mortals. The latter are incapable of comprehending such an advanced specimen—or simply jealous, or greedy.” More