Aaron Sorkin’s new Facebook film fails to nail the bizarre world Zuckerberg created – Crikey

It is almost impossibly nostalgic to remember the generally held concerns about Facebook around the time of the Mark Zuckerberg biopic The Social Network, released in 2010. “Is Facebook making us lonely?” The Atlantic fretted in a representative 2012 piece: ” … within this world of instant and absolute communication, unbounded by limits of time or space, we suffer from unprecedented alienation. We have never been more detached from one another, or lonelier. In a world consumed by ever more novel modes of socialising, we have less and less actual society. We live in an accelerating contradiction: the more connected we become, the lonelier we are.” These anxieties were reflected in that first film. Its characters were animated by motivations that are personal, human: romantic rejection, fraternal discord, social jealousy. Played by Jesse Eisenberg, Zuckerberg is shown to have created the germ of the idea that would eventually become Facebook in a fit of hurt after a break-up. He craves acceptance in the exclusive clubs of his university, and even as the film progresses and he severs more and more human connections, there’s something pained in his eyes, some indication of things he feels but cannot express. The film ends
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