Screenings of Aaron Sorkin's film 'The Social Reckoning', a companion piece to 'The Social Network', with audio description and captioning.
The Social Reckoning is coming to Gloucester Guildhall for three screenings across early November. It's Aaron Sorkin's latest, and it's being billed as a searing companion piece to his Oscar-winning 2010 biopic The Social Network. While that one looked at the messy beginnings of Facebook, this one jumps forward to 2021, when a young Facebook engineer turns whistleblower and teams up with a Wall Street Journal reporter to bring the company's most guarded secrets into the open. The story draws on the events that led to the journal's 'The Facebook Files' exposé, so it's grounded in a real-world scandal rather than just corporate boardroom drama.
On screen, you've got Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, and Jeremy Strong. If you've seen White in The Bear or Strong in Succession, you'll recognise them both as actors who do particularly well with high-tension, high-stakes roles, which fits the whole whistleblower-against-the-giant setup. Sorkin is known for his fast-paced, dialogue-heavy writing, and that's exactly what's on display here: the kind of sharp, rapid-fire exchanges that make his work so recognisable.
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The screenings are part of the Guildhall's Event Cinema programme, so they're run with audio description and captioning. There are three dates to choose from: Friday 6 November at 7pm, Saturday 7 November at 11am, and Thursday 12 November at 11am. The Thursday morning showing is the one with audio description and captioning. It carries a 15 certificate, so it's not one for the younger ones. Tickets start from £6.50, and you can book them through the Gloucester Guildhall website.
