Eduardo, it's like a Final Club except we're the president.
So, it’s time to blog about the social network. Truthfully I can say that I haven’t seen such a powerful and poignant film, well, ever. This film was not only effortlessly fascinating but it was also inspiring. I went to see this film with my friend Henry and for two people who already pine for success and achievement, this film was particularly mind-blowing/ inspiring/ tragically depressing!!
The fact that this film was written by Aaron Sorkin (who also wrote the best tv show in the world- the West Wing) meant that it was almost inevitably going to be gripping. And it was. You honestly feel as if your watching your own generation being drawn out /formed on screen. For the majority of people our age, social networking is a major (if not the biggest) part of our lives. That one idea, the creation of that thing has literally shaped our generation. As Sean Parker, one of the characters in the film says “We lived on farms, then we lived in cities, and now we're gonna live on the internet” Its just SO TRUE. It makes me wonder- if facebook hadn’t had been created, would our lives be hugely different? Most likely no. It is almost certain that someone would have created such a mechanism with sites such as myspace around. However, perhaps we wouldn’t be SO engrossed, SO consumed by the internet…
Oh and it also makes me wonder- why isn’t facebook an accepted word in the computer dictionary? Surely its time to remove the red squiggly red lines under the word? Man up Bill, Mark would…
BisousLara x
