Thursday, February 24, 2011

When love is gone

The social network, which is a based on true events movie, tells the story surrounding the creation of Facebook. The setting of the movie puts us on the Harvard university campus, massachussets, where Mark Zuckerberg, remarquably played by Jesse Einsenberg, is talking to his girlfriend in a pub. Things seems to go wrong with his girl and they apparently brake up at the end of the conversation. The rest of the movie is a chain of events that lead Facebook’s creator into becoming the youngest billionaire on the earth.
       First of all I’d like to talk about the actor’s play in ‘’Social Network’’. <<The film is also a rare showcase of pure acting prowes>> as another reviewer wrote, would be the best way to describe it. Since the movie features no real action, gun fights, blood or explosions, the succes of the movie depended on how the actors would achieve to catch the attention of the audience and make the story interesting to watch. And the fact is that they did awesome.       
      As the subtitle of the movie says: <<You don’t make 500 million friends without making a few ennemies.>>  Being accused of stealing the idea of an internet based community that lets you share about anything you want with people near or far away, Zuckeberg has to defend himself in court. The court depositions are in fact the ‘’now’’ moments of the movie while the other scenes are flashbacks of his life while facebook was under construction and expanding. While the flashbacks are in a chronological timeline, the whole movies tends to go back and forth between the court procedures and the events that led to the creation of facebook as we know it today.
     But why did the movie captivated me so much? First of all it is the story of the american dream. Mark Zuckerberg was a nobody on the campus and then suddently becomes the most popular guy on the campus who gets fame, money and girls. Also it shows very well the complex social interactions and psychology of our generation. <<You very quicly realize that this isn’t a story about the founding of Facebook>>, is what another reviewer said. The Social Network is all about love, hate, friendship. Things that are part of our daily life. They make us want to live and at some point are the key elements to the meaning to our lives. Finally the cinematography was simply amazing.
       But the main thing that makes this movie so good is that it reaches me and a lot of people on the planet. We are almost all using facebook, wich is the biggest social phenomene of the decade, and maybe of the century. The duration of the movie is about two hours and was realeased on october 1st 2010.    

473 words

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Unit 1 Vocabulary p.6-13-15

WORDS
ACHIEVABLE = adj:
- Most students like to achieve great things.
- Many students already achieved accomplishments.
- Everything is achievable.

AREA :
- There isn't any lions in my are

DURATION:
- The duration of a marathon for the best is two hours.

ELEMENT:
- The elements are the basic components.
- The elements refer to the weather.
- I went to elementary shcool.
- It's elementary. = adj

EXCEED:
- Exceed the speed limit.
- An excess of alcohol is dangerous.
- Yesterday, the elements were excessively dangerous.

FACILITATE:
- Facility
- Facilitating

FEATURE:
- The feature presentation.
- A facial feature of somebody.

MAINTAIN:
- When animals run, they maintain a fixed speed.
- They sent computer to maintenance.

PRELIMINARY
- Last week's exercise were preliminary.

RELEASE
- Vincent Lacroix was released last week from prison.

SOLE
- You are soly responsible for your education.

TRANSFER
- Transferable skills

UNDERGO
- Which comes after.

COLLOCATIONS
- Words that usually comes together.

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