Obviously the screenwriter has put a lot of effort into the subject matter. The film begins with a classic conversation between Mark and her girlfriend in a small restaurant. He kept saying: You don't have to study! His girlfriend asked: Why? He said: Because you went to Boston University. I was sitting in a Boston movie theater and heard boos and cheers in the dark. In a city with more than 100 universities around it, the topic of schools is very sensitive. Harvard's nerds, MIT's madmen, and BU's assholes do have their own characteristics.
In fact, most of the undergraduates who go to Harvard are children of wealthy families, and they may not be able to get in with a high SAT score. This university is probably a very rare school to ask if your family has Harvard graduates. The twins are the pure-blooded Harvard kids. Other children, no matter how outstanding their own conditions are, if they are not from an aristocratic family, they are still a little inferior. Just like everyone in the film is proud to join the Phoenix Club. And Eduardo received an invitation from the club, laying the groundwork for Mark's betrayal in the future.
The quality of the film is often determined by the director's pattern. The film's success lies in his portrayal of an era in which upstarts compete with established families by several characters. In a sense, the success of the upstarts was based on astonishing talent, extraordinary diligence, and a brazen provocation of the existing order. They defy common sense and are so persistent that they create a whole new order.
In such a context, we can better understand the character of Mark's heart. Just like in the last scene of the film, his advisor said to him: you are not an asshole, but you are trying so hard to be one. of inferiority. He broke the news on the Internet that his girlfriend's bust was unbearable for her to dump him; he flicked the twins to retaliate for their superior attitude, and he betrayed his friend because his friend entered the Order of the Phoenix. His business card reads: i'm a CEO now, bitch. It's for everyone who has despised him.
This is the story of an inferior genius seeking self-esteem.
That might also explain why he's so close to Napster's John. Both were rebels and both failed. John is still confident about failure, and the attitude of the game world gives him hope. Therefore, the seriousness of an old friend following the Harvard textbook to find an advertiser is unlikely to attract any interest in him. The second half of the film compares not only Mark's two friends, but also the different cultures on both sides of the American coast. Eastern culture makes CEOs, CEOs of other companies; California culture also makes CEOs, CEOs of their own companies. That's why Bill Gates and Mark are both Harvard graduates and their companies are on the West Coast.
The extraordinary thing about the film is that it doesn't set morals and ethics, but instead gives the general background of each person's behavior. The reasons for the failure of the two plaintiffs are also shown very clearly. The defendants are indeed not gentlemen, but none of them have the ability to make Facebook what it is today.
Why can assholes succeed? Because success is about strength, not morality.
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