He is not a bastard, but a genius [with spoiler]

Hollis 2022-03-20 09:01:11

"Maybe you will become a successful IT person, but you never know why girls don’t like you. You blame it on being a nerd, but I know from the bottom that it’s not true, just because you are a bastard."

Just watched yesterday After "Social Network", I read a lot of film reviews. It seems that many people have a big misunderstanding of Mark, the youngest billionaire, but in the process of making a fortune, he said that his partners were wiped out one by one. In the end, they Send him to court and turn his head against each other. Some people think that he is insidious and cold-blooded, some think that he is unscrupulous for the sake of wealth, some think that he is a bastard, and some even think that this film is a teaching material for thick black studies. But I feel that he is just a genius. All of this is only because the world of genius is different from mortals. What Mark says is actually a logical language in his world. Let’s take a look at Mark’s world and us. How different is it?

Mark Zuckerberg sat opposite Erica while chatting with her on many topics. Obviously Erica could not adapt to Mark’s jumping thinking, so they soon fell into a stalemate. In Mark’s opinion, his girlfriend asked which club is easy Jin is an insult to people (in fact, Mark does want to enter these clubs, but no club will want a technical geek who is incomprehensible, so this sentence is really to expose the scars), but Mark’s bluntness is for Ai For Rika, it is totally intolerable (this is true for any normal person), because he not only said that he would introduce her to a big person because she can go to bed with the janitor in order to reserve a place (according to Mark’s logic, this is actually Help his girlfriend and provide her with a way to enter the upper class. He doesn't care if Erica has sex with others), and when Erica says she wants to go back to school, she says that she doesn't need to go back to read because she is only studying at Boston University ( According to Mark’s logic, it’s okay to study in that school without reading, so there is no need to read), and the result is undoubtedly broken up. Then he returned to the bedroom angrily, drinking beer, venting his dissatisfaction on the blog, hacking the Harvard Internet and getting all the photos of Harvard hot girls, the purpose is to forget the beauty of his girlfriend (Mark’s logic, Erica is a bitch with small breasts and cheating. The only thing to forget is that face. The only way to solve this problem is to get more pictures of beautiful women to dilute her impression. In fact, he loves Erica very much. Only when the lover breaks up will he find the face of the other person difficult to forget), so he made a website FACEMASH, and the website click rate reached 22,000 that night, and he was immediately cited The attention of the school authorities, of course, also attracted the attention of the Winklevoss brothers.

The Winklevoss brothers were born rich, handsome, burly, Harvard top students and also rowers. They participated in the Olympics. From any aspect, they are the pride of heaven. They wanted to be a social networking site, they wanted to win cooperation with Mark, but Mark took the lead, so that after Mark's Facebook became bigger, they sent him to court.

"He stole our timing, he stole our creativity, he stole our execution plan," said the Winklevoss brothers. But in my opinion, they are just inspirations for geniuses. Just like Mark said in court, FACEBOOK does not have a code reference to the Harvard network. If you have the ability to create FACEBOOK, you have already succeeded. Just as Cameron Winkler Voss judged when he saw FACEBOOK launched, "I am sure he is a good person, he is very smart, and he did not consciously do this." It seems that Cameron is also a genius, and only a genius can know. The idea of ​​genius. (According to Mark’s logic, the Winklevoss brothers proposed the experience of creating social networking sites and making FACEMASH sites on their own. They gave birth to the idea of ​​creating FACEBOOK. Good ideas will be put into practice immediately. As for the Harvard network, that stuff and FACEBOOK can’t be done. That’s terrible. I don’t have time to do my own business.)

Edward, Mark’s only best friend, the earliest investor in Facebook, the CFO, but because of the contract, his share of shares has dropped from 30% to 30%. 0.3%, so he went crazy, and since then broke his justice with Marken and sent him to court. This is also the place where the audience criticizes Mark the most. But what about Edward’s contribution to Facebook besides the $19,000? He doesn’t know how to program. When Mark was working on the website, he was picking up girls and holding a hen to join the Phoenix Club. As the chief financial officer, he was unable to attract investment. The only thing he did was to think about how to make Facebook immediately. Realize its commercial value and make his investment return. When he saw Mark reuse Sean, he froze his bank account like a child, almost ruining the reputation of the website. (According to Mark’s logic, the distribution of wealth must be reasonable. In his mind, whoever puts the hard work on Facebook will account for a large proportion of the shares. These contributions of Edward are no different from those of investors who bought stocks. He just gave money, so he can only enjoy the same treatment as stock investors. Of course, because he is the first investor, he will be slightly better than the later investors, so Edward's shares have dropped from 30% to 0.3 % Instead of 0.03%)

Finally, let me talk about the CEO of Sean Facebook. This is the only person in the whole movie who is closest to the genius. Not only does he approve of Mark’s making Facebook stronger and bigger, instead of eager to seek profit, he also got the first investment and will The entire website is saved from fire and water. For Mark, Sean is simply a god. He can understand his ideas and put them into realization. It can be said that it is two geniuses who have achieved the miracle of Facebook.

But Sean was a real bastard. He broke his company and was a drug addict. He even had promiscuous sex with minors. When Edward was gone, he fell into trouble with him (according to Mark’s logic, these are all Things that are unreasonable are intolerable. He can't tolerate Sean taunting Edward, let alone taking drugs and promiscuous sex with a minor at home. These will damage the image of the website, so Sean also GO HOME a)

he is not a jerk, he's just a genius, he do not have much desire to be close to zero emotional intelligence, like a sophisticated machine, things just rely on strict logic, no one can understand him, no one can stand him, In the end, he could only add Erica friends to Facebook and refresh the status over and over again.

"Mark, you are not a bastard, you are just trying to be a bastard." Perhaps this is the evaluation of a mortal who understands genius best.

Finally, I would like to send a message to those who feel that this film is a thick black study textbook. The distance between you and the genius is like the distance between the earth and Mars.

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Extended Reading

The Social Network quotes

  • Amy: You're a zillionaire!

    Sean Parker: Not technically.

    Amy: What are you?

    Sean Parker: Broke. There's not a lot of money in free music, even less when you're being sued by everyone who's ever been to the Grammys.

    Amy: This is blowing my mind.

    Sean Parker: I appreciate that.

    Amy: I gotta hop in the shower and get ready for class.

    Sean Parker: Bio-Chem even though you're a French major who's name is Amy.

    Amy: You passed.

    Sean Parker: I'm a hard worker.

  • Sean Parker: You mind if I check my email?

    Amy: Yeah, go ahead.

    Sean Parker: [logs on and sees The Facebook] Amy? Amy!

    Amy: Yeah?

    Sean Parker: Can you come out here?

    Amy: Just a second.

    Sean Parker: There's a snake in here, Amy.

    Amy: What?

    [runs from shower]

    Amy: Where?

    Sean Parker: Okay, there isn't a snake but I need to ask you something.

    Amy: Are you kidding me? I could have been killed!

    Sean Parker: How?

    Amy: By running too fast! And getting twisted in the curtain. What do you need to ask me?

    Sean Parker: I went to check my email and there's a website open on your computer?

    Amy: Yeah, after you passed out last night I went on The Facebook for a little bit.

    Sean Parker: What's that?

    Amy: The Facebook? Stanford's had it for like, two weeks now. It's really awesome except it's freakishly addicting. Seriously, I'm on the thing like five times a day.

    Sean Parker: Mind if I send myself an email?

    Amy: Yeah, is everything okay?

    Sean Parker: Everything's great. I just need to find you, Mark Zuckerberg.