I know this blog is really me n’ Regardings reviews blog, but in case you missed it, bell hooks’ review of the Social Network was tacked into this collection of interview excerpts from her interview with Ms. Magazine:
“I noticed when I talked with audiences about the representation of Asian women in the film The Social Network, most people said ‘Asian women, were there Asian women in the film?’ That was just really shocking! Because how could you seen that film and not know that there were Asian women in it? They were like the backdrop. … Even the one young Black woman who is a dancer, her head’s cut off and we just see her ass, so once again there’s this whole image of young, powerful white men who are going to be rich and their whole relationship to women is completely misogynist. I felt like this should make people shake in their boots but it doesn’t. People say it that was the best film of the year!”
When I watched the Social Network, which I enjoyed in a few ways, my main feeling after it was a sort of lamentation that I would never be rich, and in that perhaps I had done something wrong, squandered my abilities and missed some long gone opportunities boat… I would never be a rich guy. These rich guys will be in charge of everything in my life and then maybe my sons life as well.
gnar.