Facebook Movie is Shallow

The View of the Characters Prove Our Social Evolution is Pitiful

Carlos Rix
Is The Social Network the best movie of the year, really? Ms. Dana Stevens at Slate.Com raises yet another pertinent question "Is the Facebook Movie Sexist?" and she answers it herself: " It definitely has a problem with women".

The role of women in the movie, but for Erica Albright (Rooney Mara) two or three moments, really is if nothing pitiful. Now, the story is being told by young men and of course it portrays the world as these young men see it, right?

Well, maybe that is exactly the big problem with The Social Network movie. Everything is taking place not in the last century, but in the very beginning of this one - of the new millenium. I was not surprised, nobady was... that is the real problem. We are here talking about the brains of America - Harvard University.

Harvard! And what do we see? A mediaeval cavalier tale. Yes, tales where women are the source of inspiration, patologically loved, used, etc, but not real players. What we see in the "movie of the year"? Giggling girls all around, neurotic at times and, the best of them, incapable of understudying geniuses, wasn´t she?

What genius? A genius (Mark) incapable of communicating across with the other sex and his mates... I don´t know, in the jangle, in the meddle of the Amazon Rain Forest, indians get down to talk to their kids. What they mean is "the kids can come up but we, who are more experienced and have got more knowledge, we can (must) go down and communicate".

I think everybody, as I do, have got a FB user account and we like it, right? Maybe most of the critics I read do to and are afraid to loose it if they do not talk nice about the movie. The story is interesting because we know FB, and many of us use FB. Other then that it is very shallow. This movie is FB.

Published by Carlos Rix

I am an International correspondent. I love to get to know people. I am always between Brazil and USA on business. Traveling is fantastic and gives me the opportunity to get to know other cultures. I also w...  View profile

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