A rated it only three stars while I felt it deserved four. I particularly liked the character of Mark Zuckerberg. He's funny, weird, and so deep that it makes it quite impossible to read between and beyond the lineaments of his face, his occasional smiles, and his long pauses. He's like the character of Citizen Kane - someone whom you can't put into a box and can't quite get a firm grasp of. Who is he? The evil villain eager to make a name for himself or good, largely confused protagonist? What really motivated him to set up and pursue facebook? It didn't seem like he was solely in it because he wanted to walk the path of money.
Narratives like these leave me with a creepy, unsettled feeling - I could not go back to using Facebook the way I used facebook (pre- The Social Network) because a large part of me wanted to know if I was plugged into a system whose creator had 'evil' intentions.
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And then last weekend, I caught Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It was a public holiday here in Singapore and G and I made the extra effort to book tickets for a 9am show - unprecedented on two counts - we never ever watch 9am shows and we never ever book tickets for morning shows.
I enjoyed the show because I absolutely love watching Hermione, Ron and Harry together. The feeling is akin to reading Enid Blyton's St Clare's and Malory Towers, trailing behind the little girls as they move from first form to the next and being pulled into all kinds of scratchy situations as they attempt to wriggle out of them. This time however, Hogwarts is hardly featured, the three kids are thrown into the wilderness and surrounded by the most gorgeous scenery set. This wilderness however, when coupled with their familiar jabbering, ribbing and bickering (even in the midst of dark and troubled times) ignites warm, fuzzy feelings, making the show very worth the while if only to catch the trio in action again. I like its unhurried piecemeal pace (unlike the other films where each scene precedes the other at full tilt), as if allowing the audience to savor the little that is left of the Harry Potter series. Perhaps it is deferring to the characters and acknowledging their step into the real world as purposeful adults armed with a mission to save humanity from all evil.
When considered on its own, the film pales in comparison to the rest of the other potter films. Yet, when considered as the seventh installment of the Potter sequel, it is a beautiful piece worth the watch!
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