"The Social Network" tells us that you can have a high IQ that can get you a perfect SAT score, and you can have the computer talent that a website programmed in one hour can crash Harvard's network system in two hours with too much traffic, but It's not enough, you have to be a "jerk" and have an unstoppable determination to become famous.
But getting anything comes at a price. The protagonist in the film loses his best friend, his original collaborators, and his moral bottom line. This year's Oscar-winning film has a razor-sharp perspective and a wry black humour for the film's winner, Mark Zuckerberg. How are "successful people" made? Or whether such "success" is worth having, I think that's what the film and what we're talking about. The concise and neat montage technique used by the director allows us to gradually form a complete storyline in our minds through the memories of the trial confrontation room, which is the world-famous bastard and the youngest billionaire. Mark Zuckerberg's fortune from a Harvard student to Facebook CEO. From disrespectful remarks about his girlfriend at the beginning of the film to stealing the idea of a noble brother, mark zuckerberg eventually gets to the point of betraying his best friend or finally succeeding in being a "jerk". As the female lawyer said at the end, "you're not an asshole, you're just trying so hard to be".
Some people say that young people will have the urge to do a career to change the world after watching this movie, while the old people will lament that the moral sense of young people is too weak. And what I want to say is that no matter what the rules of the game in society are, we still have choices. Unlike traditional Hollywood blockbusters or most Asian movies (which try to portray a phantom scenario of how a good morally superior person can succeed), this film unreservedly hits the reality that morally unethical People are often more likely to gain the upper hand in social competition.
But so what? ? Understanding the rules of the game of social competition is our first step into society, but the definition of life is not only to obey these rules, we still have choices. Shouting "patriotic and anti-Japanese" slogans may give you more collective identity, telling certain historical truths may make you personally threatened, not agreeing with mainstream values may make you marginalized, etc. These are all facts, I I don't want to say more, sober and realistic people have long recognized these unspoken rules. What I'm trying to say is that it's not wrong to strive for personal interests, but at the same time can we have a moral bottom line? Honesty and belief in these things cannot bring people short-term benefits, but they have long-term social value. I think, I committed SB again, and the "jerk" who made a fortune in the film will not ignore what I said. That's it, there are always some people who are concerned with changing the rules of society and others who are only concerned with how to profit from the existing rules of the game. But the choices in life are so vast that even the "jerk" in the film is trying to defend a former friend on the bench, and I'm sure even if you're the latter, you still have a choice.
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