I just got done watching the Social Network. It is the most depressing thing I've ever seen. Evidently, being extremely smart and getting into Harvard isn't enough to make you feel good about yourself. Instead, you worry about which Harvard club you can get into and when you're not invited, you send nasty stuff on the internet about people. In the process of doing this, you discover the rest of the world is sort of insecure, and wants to be in the in-crowd. And you end up richer than God, because you figured this out and added some ads.
Oh and you can never stop talking. Never.
What I was left feeling after this movie is how shallow people are. And with all the challenges in the world, evidently our best and brightest can't stop being obsessed about where they rank in the Quad. Just like everyone.
When are we going to cure cancer? Or figure out how to make cars run on water so we never have to buy another barrel of mid-east oil again? Hell, I'd settle for a cure for hangovers. Instead, we get Facebook and Jesse Samberg.
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