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The Cinematic Schematic is sending a friend request to all listeners. We’re committed to a civilized, ragebait-free discussion in this week’s review of The Social Reckoning.
The world of social media has changed dramatically since 2010, when director David Fincher worked on Aaron Sorkin’s script for The Social Network. That film, starring Jesse Eisenberg, was a critical and box-office hit and eventually won three Oscars: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Editing.
Facebook changed its name to Meta and has become a tour de force, integrating itself into people’s everyday lives worldwide. It’s currently the seventh-largest company on the planet with a market cap of nearly $2 trillion. It has also been at the center of many controversies and scandals.
The Social Reckoning dramatizes the events surrounding the 2021 Facebook leak by whistleblower Frances Haugen and investigative journalist Jeff Horwitz. The script draws on “The Facebook Files,” a series that investigative journalist Jeff Horwitz published in The Wall Street Journal.
Though this film has drawn a lot of interest in the lead-up to release, it has also sparked considerable trepidation.
Sorkin returns without any of his collaborators. David Fincher was tied up with an exclusive deal at Netflix, Eisenberg declined to return, citing his distaste for Zuckerberg, and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross opted not to do the score. This film stars Mikey Madison as Frances Haugen, Jeremy Allan White as Jeff Horwitz, and Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg.
The film tragically opened well under expectations. It carries an estimated production budget of $30 million and opened at #5 with $5.5 million.
Does Sorkin still bring the goods, all on his own? Or has the Oscar-winner fallen out of touch with the audience? Listen to the full conversation for our verdicts.
Meet this Week’s Whistleblowers.
Kevin Ely, the senior programmer for the deadCenter Film Festival, joins the Cinematic Schematic hosts Caleb Masters and Laron Chapman. Does Sorkin deliver a searing look at Facebook, or should our critics blow the whistle on a bad movie?
Left: Laron Chapman (Top) and Kevin Ely(Bottom)
Right: Caleb Masters
Special Guest
Kevin Ely
Senior Features Programmer at deadCenter
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About The Social Reckoning
IMDB describes the film as:
The film follows Frances Haugen, a young Facebook engineer, who enlisted the help of Jeff Horwitz, a Wall Street Journal reporter, to blow the whistle on the social network’s most guarded secrets.
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