The Social Network (2010)

The Social Network is a drama movie directed by David Fincher (Fight Club, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), and it's about the founding of the popular social networking site Facebook. The main character of the movie is the founder Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg), and The Social Network is pretty much about Mark’s life before and during the founding of Facebook, as well as the process of expanding to other colleges in the U.S and later to the U.K. 

The movie leaps between two different time settings; the present and the past. The present, where Mark is testifying in the two lawsuits against him: one of them filed by the Winklevoss brothers who says that Mark stole their idea for HarvardConnection, and the other by his ex-best friend Eduardo Saverin who feels like he was betrayed and replaced. The past follows Mark through the making of Facebook, and you get to know the whole story of how the boys on Mark's dormitory created Facebook, how it grew big and got famous, and also how mark steps on the toes to Eduardo and the Winklevoss brothers, and how he gets to know the internet entrepreneur and founder of Napster Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake). 

The movie starts in the past, but after a while it leaps in a pattern where questions are asked in the present, and the answers are shown in the past. That makes the movie more interesting, because it switches between two different places and times so you'll be able to see the characters from different perspectives and how they develops through the years, both in behavior and relations to each other.

Sean and Mark before an important meeting.

 The movie is an impressive describing of the founding of the greatest internet social networking site ever created (so far). The characters are most interesting and well played by a handful of good actors. The manuscript is good and contains many good dialogues; subtitles are advised though, as they talk rather fast and computer-ish in some scenes. Also - David Fincher once again shows us that he capable of creating great films and serves us a movie that I recommend to whoever likes movies. This is one you should not miss. Definitely one of the better movies I’ve been seeing lately!

-LB