Embellished and solid movie

Rating: 9/10 (15 June 2019)

This review contains spoilers.
The Social Network is a biographical drama movie that premiered in 2010. The movie is directed by David Fincher. The movie is based on the book 'The Accidental Billionaires' by Ben Mezrich. The movie stars Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield. The movie is about the founding of Facebook and the subsequent lawsuits concerning the creation of Facebook.
David Fincher does an excellent job directing this movie. This is a solid movie that can embellish the truth of the founding of Facebook. It is a movie that absolutely does well in the presentation of the real-life events. 'The Social Network' is able to make the world revolves around Mark Zuckerberg and his executives feel incredibly real and authentic. This ability to craft the narrative to make the audience both sympathize and also despise the Facebook executives is a job well done by David Fincher. In addition the movie is well shot, edited, and staged. This is a great movie in the presentation. If you were to watch this for its presentation alone, the grade would be an A.
The acting by all of the stars are phenomenal. Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg does a great job in this role. I enjoyed his portrayal of the controversial Facebook founder. It makes for an interesting depiction of the founder, when the actor is able to show more emotion than their real-life counterpart. Likewise Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin does a good job. Although I do not see much of a resemblance to the real life counterpart, Andrew Garfield is able to portray the betrayal he suffers at the hands of Mark Zuckerberg with great conviction. It makes the earlier parts of the movie where they partnered harder to watch. Even many of the smaller supporting cast members do an admirable job in this movie.
The movie does embellish the truth which can make this appear to be a fatal flaw to some audiences. For most of them, the audience can accept this as a well told story. As with many biographical movies, the movie has to embellish the truth to be more satisfying narratively. The movie does feed into the negative opinion of Mark Zuckerberg which can be warranted depending on one's views.
I would recommend 'The Social Network.'
Grade: B