"The Anti-Social Movie"

Jeff Jarvis aims both barrels at The Social Network:

The movie violates privacy, smears reputations, makes shit up -- just what the internet is accused of doing, right? Oh, it's entertaining, in a dark way, as much as watching the pillorying of witches used to be, I suppose. For The Social Network, geeks and entrepreneurs are as mysterious and frightening as witches. Its writer, Aaron Sorkin, admits as much in New York Magazine. "He says unapologetically that he knows almost nothing about the 2010 iteration of Facebook, adding that his interest in computer-aided communication goes only as far as emailing his friends." Sorkin himself says, "I don't want my fidelity to be to the truth; I want it to be to storytelling." Making shit up. ...

Ah, but its fans will say, it's really just a drama about a man. But that's where it fails most. It can't begin to explain this man because it doesn't grok what he made -- what he's still making.

Jarvis is the turd in the punchbowl on this one; Rotten Tomatoes, a critic aggregator, gives the film a 100% rating. John Hudson rounds up some reviews.

(Image of Mark Zuckerberg mask for Halloween via Ryan Tate)