By the time you read this, New Media — including its tenacious, multi-tentacled offspring, Social Media — as you knew it last year, last month or even yesterday, will no longer exist. The story of New Media is so perpetually new it’s being written and overwritten even as we speak. Shouldn’t movies — those lumbering, endangered beasts that, done right, take months and sometimes even years to make — be the worst mode for examining even just one angle of this quicksilver mirror world? What hope does a relatively old-school filmmaker like David Fincher have, as he takes on one of the most amorphous and ambiguous success stories in the Internet’s short history, of capturing lightning in a bottle?
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REVIEW: Social Network Brilliantly Explores the Facebook Frontier
