Through an analytical history of the life and times of both of its artistic fathers, Carlos examines the Marquis de Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom–a scroll stuffed into a wall in a Bastille cell that would two centuries later become the most infamous film ever made.

*The Social Reckoning* wants desperately to inherit the moral urgency and aesthetic electricity of *The Social Network*, but the magic is gone. Sorkin replaces complexity with didacticism, interiority with shorthand, and journalistic tension with contrived dynamics. The result is a hollow sequel to a story reality has already made stranger and uglier.