The Social Reckoning Review: Sorkin’s Facebook Film Is Uncomfortably Relevant - CNET
If you’re online and like movies, you should probably go see The Social Reckoning.
The Social Reckoning, written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, is a companion film to David Fincher’s famed 2011 Facebook movie, The Social Network. Don’t expect a true sequel. The two flicks are certainly in conversation with each other — there is a new signature drink that I’m convinced is a callback to Justin Timberlake’s infamous appletini scene — but The Social Reckoning isn’t a remake or reboot.
If Fincher’s film is about the rise of Mark Zuckerberg as a tech god and Facebook as a new religion, Sorkin’s is a stark look at what happens when people stop believing.
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