Parent and baby screening of Aaron Sorkin's 'The Social Reckoning', the companion piece to 'The Social Network' about the Facebook whistleblower.
The Barbican is screening The Social Reckoning on Saturday 17 October, as part of its Parent and Baby programme. It's Aaron Sorkin's companion piece to The Social Network, set in the Metaverse and arriving a good decade and a half after the first film. If you remember the original, this one picks up the thread from there, though it shifts the focus entirely.
Instead of the courtroom battles and the founding of Facebook, The Social Reckoning follows the whistleblower who sparked the social media reckoning we've been living through. It's inspired by true events and tracks a young Facebook engineer who teams up with a Wall Street Journal reporter to expose the network's most guarded secrets, charting Facebook's next era long after Sorkin's first film. It's a story about the inside of the company coming out, rather than the outside looking in.
The cast is a strong one. Mikey Madison, who you might know from Anora, plays Frances Haugen, the whistleblower at the centre of it all. Jeremy Allen White, from The Bear, takes on Jeff Horwitz, the reporter she works with, and Jeremy Strong, of Succession, returns as Mark Zuckerberg. It's a bit of a reunion for Sorkin, then, with Strong back in the role that helped put the whole thing on the map.
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It's being shown as a Parent and Baby screening, one of the Barbican's strands that let you catch new releases with a baby in tow. It sits alongside their ScreenTalks with filmmakers, Relaxed Screenings, Senior Community Cinema, and Pay What You Can screenings, so it's part of a wider effort to make the cinema work for different kinds of audiences. The film runs 1 hour 52 minutes and contains flashing images that may affect viewers susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
It starts at 11:15 in Cinema 3, part of the Barbican Cinema 2 & 3 complex at the Barbican Centre on Beech Street, London EC2Y 8DS. Tickets are £6 standard.
