The Social Network Review

“The Social Network" is a great film not because of its dazzling style or visual cleverness, but because it is splendidly well-made. Despite the baffling complications of computer programming, web strategy and big finance, Aaron screenplay makes it all clear. We don't follow the story so much as get dragged along behind it.

In the book, the author explains the motive of creating a project prior to the Facebook, called Facemash. Facemash was project for Harvard students (and those who are angry at all women, after breaking up), based on the principle of Hot or Not (dating service where you can not only meet new interesting people, but also show estimates based on pictures users system (from 1 to 10). By creating this project, Mark hacking university network, in connection with what he had problems with the administration, after which he was expelled from the campus. After the incident, Mark pay attention to two beautiful, athletic, and preferred twins Cameron and Tyler Uinklvoss.

In an age when movie dialogue is dumbed and slowed down to suit slow-wits in the audience, the dialogue here has the velocity and snap of screwball comedy. Eisenberg, who has specialized in playing nice or clueless, is a heat-seeking missile in search of his own goals. Timberlake pulls off the tricky assignment of playing Sean Parker as both a hot shot and someone who engages Zuckerberg as an intellectual equal. Andrew Garfield evokes an honest friend who is not the right man to be CFO of the company that took off without him, but deserves sympathy. (Literature Resource Center, 2009)

When we look back through the last ten years, one of the most defining attributes is the rise of the social networking site, in particular, Facebook. It currently boasts over 500 million active users as of July, 2010. Facebook was launched in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Chris Hughes, and Dustin Moskovitz in a Harvard dorm room. The journey toward the site that we use today is a sordid tale of lost friendships, greed, and betrayal as recounted in Ben Mezrich's nonfiction book, “The Accidental Billionaires.” David Fincher's latest film, “The Social Network,” recounts the tumultuous first years of Facebook's founding and the resulting lawsuits that followed, but do not mistake it for a documentary. As it takes inspiration from Mezrich's book, where Saverin served as a consultant, the details are skewed against Zuckerberg's favor yet no one can deny his ambition and genius. “The Social Network” is an engrossing film that boasts amazing writing and direction, but it's the excellent performances that sell the film and cements its status as one of the best, if not THE best, film of 2010.

Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg), a Harvard University student, is having dinner with his girlfriend Erica Albright (Rooney Mara) where he reveals his desire to join an exclusive Final Club. She breaks up with him when he unintentionally insults her about sleeping with the doorman and going to Boston University, which he feels is less ...