Denby Joins In

The Social Network “is absolutely emblematic of its time and place. It is shrewdly perceptive about such things as class, manners, ethics, and the emptying out of self that accompanies a genius’s absorption in his work. It rushes through a coruscating series of exhilarations and desolations, triumphs and betrayals, and ends with what feels like darkness closing in on an isolated soul. And it has the hard-charging excitement of a very recent revolution, the surge and sweep of big money moving fast and chewing people up in its wake.” — from David Denby‘s lengthy but exhilarating review in the 10.4.10 New Yorker.

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20 thoughts on “Denby Joins In”

  1. Quotes like The Social Network “is absolutely emblematic of its time and place. It is shrewdly perceptive about such things as class, manners, ethics” remind me increasingly of last month’s similar raptuous reviews of Jonathan Franzen’s novel Freedom, which seems to make a similar stake on the past decade with a 15-year-older crowd.

    Has anyone read that novel and seen this film?

    As it is, I am happy to experience both once the dust has settled in a year or so.

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  2. Denby’s review is the first I’ve read that makes me feel like all this hype isn’t for nothing. Definitely my favorite critic these days. Very encouraging.

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  3. okay… I… can’t… take… it…. anymore….

    must…see….now…. but….can’t.

    (walking into cryogenic freeze chamber to emerge on Oct 1. for a prime time screening)

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  5. Lumenick in the NYPost said “Quite possibly the first truly great fact-based movie of the 21st century” So… what was Zodiac, chopped liver?

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