Quote of the Day

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The more that I reflect back upon The Social Network (and I really have got to get back out to see it again) the higher it grows in my esteem. And if you remember my review, it was pretty dang high from the start.

Also blossoming with time is my appreciation for Jesse Eisenberg's performance in the film. As y'all might know I have not been a fan of Eisenberg's - we got off on an ertemely wrong foot with The Squid and The Whale. But he started charming me a little bit with Adventureland and with Zombieland and then, well honestly he blew me away with his Mark Zuckerberg. Give the boy an Oscar nomination, please. It's far beyond the easiness of the casting - sure he's played this sort of role before, but here he's given the chance to make it as big and iconic as Daniel Plainview or Don Corleone, and he knocks it outta the park.

Author Zadie Smith wrote up a fantastic piece on the film this weekend and this snippet on Eisenberg really sums up part of what made his work so right:

"It’ll be a long time before a cinema geek comes along to push Jesse Eisenberg, the actor who plays Zuckerberg, off the top of our nerd typologies. The passive-aggressive, flat-line voice. The shifty boredom when anyone, other than himself, is speaking. The barely suppressed smirk. Eisenberg even chooses the correct nerd walk: not the sideways corridor shuffle (the Don’t Hit Me!), but the puffed chest vertical march (the I’m not 5'8”, I’m 5'9”!)."

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