Sorkin as an Adjective: A View of The Social Network

I watched The Social Network for the third time recently.

Firstly and most pertinently, that movie is beautiful. I feel as though I understand its purpose more with each subsequent viewing. The first time I saw the movie, I enjoyed it, thought it was funny and poignant and scathing and engaging, but I was ultimately unsure why it was written. To paint Mark Zuckerberg as a douche? To expose the kind of seedy aspects of Facebook's creation?

The latter seems more likely. Aaron Sorkin's writing history has been one of exposure. A Few Good Men exposed dark military secrets. Sportsnight and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip were startling views behind the scenes of struggling television programs. The West Wing was the closed doors inner workings of politics. Considered in that vein, The Social Network becomes a movie about the man-behind-the-curtain of Facebook.

Still, despite that, I don't know if that's the purpose of The Social Network.

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