Since I last posted the latest trailer for David Fincher’s upcoming film about the creation of Facebook “The Social Network”, I have seen it several times, and it just gets better and better. This is the best trailer I’ve seen in a very long time. So, if you haven’t watched it, do it:
The first part of the trailer offers one of the best commentaries of online social networking without saying a word about it. We are offered glimpses into the lives of others, and for some reason it feels as if we are unwanted visitors in a foreign land. These are all likely fictional pages, but anyone who uses Facebook can recognize everything we see in this trailer. However, are these photos things that those people would want everyone in the world to see? But they’re online. People to this day think that what they put on Facebook is private, but this clip addresses that without a spoken word. Sometimes less is more.
We then move on to the plot portion of the trailer, and this is equally well done. In these couple minutes we get a hint of the wit of the film, and most notably the dark tone the film seems to be employing. In the meantime the cover of Radiohead’s “Creep” provides the perfect soundtrack. When the lines “I want a perfect body / I want a perfect soul” are used in the first part of the trailer, tell me it doesn’t resonate. The song provides the perfect neuroticism to match the subject at hand.
This film looks like it could be pretty amazing. From what I know about the script it does not just tell the story of the founding of Facebook, but it also comments on the power of it, and all similar sites as well. Mark Zuckerberg did not just start a successful website. He changed the internet as we know it. For better or for worse.
(By the way, I must say that for no particular reason my sixth sense is predicting a Best Supporting Actor nomination for Justin Timberlake. That's right. Justin Freaking Timberlake.)
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