David Fincher’s The Social Network is the stunning tale of a new breed of cultural insurgent: a punk genius who sparked a revolution and changed the face of human interaction for a generation, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Once you get past the annoying conversation and through the credits and plan to settle in for the intriguing film of history and success, you will find to your chagrin a blasé precursor give-and-take conversation, a long conversation, a monotone conversation, a dragged-out conversation. It seems like hours of a monologue with a dash of dialog thrown in. As the ending credits roll up, you realize that all he did was talk and talk and talk.
Of course, if you like long boring conversations, this is a great movie and a perfect representation of one great big long diatribe that starts from nowhere and goes nowhere. On the positive side, the music was nice and the period costumes were up to acceptable.
I only saw the Blu-ray. I'm not sure they made anything other than Blu-ray. There are the standard scene selections, languages, special features, and whatnot; however, none of them contribute to this presentation. You might want to listen to the audio commentary to see what they were trying to do.
Don't get me wrong, I like history; I like biographies, but this thing wasn't history or biography.
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