Director David Fincher sets fire to your senses and proves his abilities once again with “The Social Network.” The film is about the founding of an Internet social networking website, Facebook. Since most of you probably have a grand understanding of what Facebook is, I’ll save some ink and time and tell you what this movie is really about. It’s a drama that’s filled with dark irony and is a tad bit funnier than led on to be from its trailers. It follows Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his best friend and co-founder Eduardo Saverin, two Harvard students with something in mind, to create something that would give each person his or her own space, a profile with a picture, personal info, and status updates, and something that would make it different from its competitors, a relationship status.
Yes, I am in fact talking about the idea of Facebook. This idea of a film to some seems a bit dull and uninteresting, and if it seems that way to you, then grab your shovel and dig a little deeper. Yes, the majority of this film is based upon the true events, but this is in fact a movie. The film features dark and polished camera work and the fantastic acting of Jesse Eisenberg, who plays Zuckerberg, along with Andrew Garfield playing the co-founder, and Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, founder of Napster.
With all this into play, the movie pulls you in and keeps you watching, speechless, with a few well-placed chuckles here and there. These characters are real, you feel for them, and by the end of the film, I was left drained. But not in a bad way.
This film lets you see the start of something huge, and it takes you through the mental stages of obsession, greed, and loss and teases you with humor. It shows the psyche of someone with an urge for success, who gets lost in his own web and takes down those closest to him to bring himself higher. This is a social network that grabs you and doesn’t let go until the right moment.