Kelsi and Trey discuss one of the most important movies of the 21st century in David Fincher's The Social Network, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield. We explore how the film successfully investigates a modern paradigm shift of authority led by a semi-fictionalized Mark Zuckerberg, who represents the exponential inhuman power of the internet personified. How intentional or prophetic was this Shakespearean coming-of-age melodrama?
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