The Persecution of the Winklevii: On Vanity Fair‘s Profile of the Winklevoss Twins, And Why It’s Okay to Empathize With Them →
Whether or not Sorkin’s take is the correct one or not—and much of the thrust of Vachon’s profile considers this—it’s the one most people hold to be true: These guys just can’t give up. They are cast as the interchangeable antagonists (literally, as they’re played by one actor) to the film’s protagonist, who is a sniveling little dick who prides himself on being such.
And yet: the story is inherently positioned to root for Zuckerberg, because he gets away with something. In this light, The Social Network looks more like a heist movie—and the Winklevoss like the heist movie villains, those being stolen from—than any other genre.
