The Social Network

The Dramatized Version of Facebook History

Plot:

On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse  Eisenberg) sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history, but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.

Release Date: October 1, 2010
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Directed By: David Fincher (Alien 3, Seven, Fight Club, Panic Room, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Rooney Mara
Budget: $40,000,000
Gross Revenue: $96,917,897 (USA) $224,920,315 (worldwide)

Review:

Is it true that to become a successful figure in computer business, someone has to started it by becoming a jerk? We’ve often seen (or read) Steve Jobs or Bill Gates being described as an egoistic, megalomaniac, perfectionist, self-centered, manipulator person, or even as a thief of ideas! Apparently, The Social Network also tries to make the co-founder of Facebook Marc Zuckerberg as that kind of person too.

The movie focus on the early creation of Facebook, from where Zuckerberg got the idea, who he worked with, who helped him, how fast the business was developing, how the team can be torn apart, until how Zuckerberg finally have to be sued by both his former Harvard colleagues and the other Facebook co-founder, Eduardo Saverin.

Like a usual David Fincher’s movies, The Social Network perfectly describes the dark side of humanity, along with the anti-hero protagonist figure. The dialogues, although the Zuckerberg’s character often speaks weirdly fast, were well-written. The acts also pretty impressive, which surprisingly include the former boy-band singer Justin Timberlake, who plays as Sean Parker, the co-founder of Napster.

The only problem I had with this movie is the Mark Zuckerberg character looks too unreal. He’s described as a cold-dark-weird nerd, which in this film doesn’t seem to have any good side at all, besides his genius mind. It might be too over-dramatized, as if you believe that it’s real, you probably gonna immediately stop using Facebook after watched the movie.

As a reference, the real Mark Zuckerberg also said that The Social Network is inaccurate and made without his counsel at all. He also added that this movie forgot to describe how hard his struggle of creating Faccebook actually was  (probably refers to the programming, as in the film everything seems to be done only with typing a few codes to the keyboard).

Anyway, Zuckerberg success was gained during his college year in Harvard, where he finally dropped-out. It seems like many billionaires didn’t finish their college, right? Besides Zuckerberg, we also knew Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, or Richard Branson as famous figures who dropped-out from university. However, unless you have a really brilliant mind like them, I strongly suggest you to go to college and graduate, as education is quite important for any career. On the way to achieve that, anytime you need help of writing a college essay, you can visit essaysreasy.org which capable of writing the most difficult and original papers. Writing essay and paper are often difficult, so need to be ashamed for searching help from the pro.

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My Rating: B+

IMDb user rating: 8.0/10

Rotten Tomatoes meter: 96%

Metacritic: 95/100

Yahoo! critics: A

Yahoo! users: A-

Your Ratings: (2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)
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