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Ep. 62: The Social Network and the Myths of Silicon Valley

Cinema of Meaning

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The Passion of Zuckerberg

I just wondered if you had any thoughts about like his motivation specifically there and how that relates to how much he is or isn't caring about the money side of things. He definitely doesn't explicitly stated as you'd often see in other similar movies like the Steve Jobs Steve Jobs movies for examplethere's a more explicit mission statement from the jobs character or you know Steve Jobs I think yeah it's mostly what we already talked about maybe the sort of Rosebud that's given here the desire for status but not just status as in social status as in a place on the social hierarchy. The thing is he's kind of presented as this very reactionary character like he starts face match after being pissed off

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