Does one compromise loyalty to friendship and moral honesty for the end result of extreme gargantuan success? In this case yes....

Rating: 6/10 (1 February 2011)

This film takes us inside to the beginning of the Internet explosion of Facebook. A success story is told,with the edges of truth cut against the illusion of a billionaire fairytale, leaving instead the bitter reality of finding success almost overnight in a world of greed and ambition.
The lesson to be learned is The compromise of loyalty to friendship and moral honesty is worth the end result of extreme gargantuan success? The film shows us the crazy roller coaster ride that Mark Zuckerberg (Played by Jesse Eisenberg) gets on both willingly and unwillingly in his ambitious endeavor. Behind his ambition you see a character who is socially outcast and emotionally awkward trying to both seek revenge against those he feels intellectually superior too, and to impress an old girlfriend by whom he was jilted.
The other characters are Eduardo Saverin (played by Andrew Garfield) who is Mark Zuckerbergs, best and maybe only friend, he also comes from money and is able to finance the start up costs of the venture. Erica Albright (played by Rooney Mara) is his ex-girlfriend whom he both loves/hates and obsesses about. She was the main catalyst for Mark to blog online about and bring attention to his pain after being rejected by her.
Both An opportunity and an idea come along for Mark in the characters of the Winklevoss twins, both Tyler and Cameron are played by Arnie Hammer. The twins approach Mark early in the movie with their idea of an exclusive Harvard online dating site. This idea plants the seeds in Marks head for The Facebook.
In the opening scene is when Erica is dumping Mark. Mark feels he has to do something now, right in this moment to save himself and prove who he is. He tries to convince Erica she is making a mistake and all of his ambition over emotion is a good thing. She doesn't give in.
Mark progresses with the dating turned social site idea and continues to blow off the twins, even after saying he would build their website for them. The website morphs from a "dating site" into what is now known as Facebook. With the seed money of Eduardo, he is able to buy a space on a Harvard server and launch. With the launching of The Facebook the twins are enraged and feel they have been swindled.
As The Facebook grows in popularity, Eduardo envisions bringing advertisers to create revenue, but Mark is feeling something even greater and doesn't want to turn it into something "uncool". This shows the beginning of the end between the two friends and their differing ideas on where to take the business. As the movie progresses flashbacks take us back into disputes and battles, and the respective events that lead the characters into the deposition rooms. Lawsuits had been filed from both the twins and Eduardo.
Girls are easy now, and Eduardo starts hanging with a new girlfriend named Christy (played by Brenda Song). The three of them get to meet with Sean Parker (played by Justin Timberlake) the founder of Napster, now broke and washed up after losing millions in lawsuits against the music industry.
Sean and Mark see eye to eye and Mark taps into the vision that Sean describes and agrees with the hugeness of what The Facebook is capable of. Eduardo is clearly upset and feels helpless against Sean, and stubbornly sticks to his vision of bringing in advertisers one at a time. In the meantime Sean is wining and dining Mark and luring him away from his partnership with Eduardo.
The courtship of Mark by Sean continues and Mark leaves for California where its "happening" and Eduardo leaves for New York on an Internship and in search of advertisers. The separation is symbolic of the rift that has grown between Eduardo and Mark. Although Mark does not tell Sean he is moving to California, Sean manages to him and innocently appears at his door (hardly a coincidence), further emphasizing the snake-like personality of Sean.
As Sean penetrates the Facebook momentum, he also brings investors (not advertisers) to Facebook along with a half a million dollar contract to go public and bring in stockholders. As an initial and legal business partner Eduardo has to fly into California to sign the new papers. He is obviously a stranger to all the new people at this point. Eduardo observes the wild party going on, and is thoroughly disgusted with both Mark and the situation, however all that changes when he meets with the lawyers and realizes he owns over a million shares of the company.
Eduardo leaves to go back to school. Sean now owns a small portion of the company along with a few other key players. As they reach their one million member milestone a party is planned. Eduardo flies in for the festivities only to find he has new papers to sign. The lawyers tell him his shares have been diluted down to zero value. A strong emotional scene follows as Eduardo confronts Mark and finds out the new cronies shares' were not diluted, and he has been swindled out of his share of the company, even his name was removed from the legal credits. He is bitter and angry, and leaves the scene with a threat.
The film climaxes with Sean getting busted that night with under aged girls, alcohol and cocaine. Sean cries wolf and claims that he was busted on purpose and accuses Eduardo of tipping the bust. However, Sean realizes the implications of his actions on the friendship between Mark and Eduardo and wonders if maybe it was Mark that called the police. Mark retreats and goes to Erica's Facebook page, and realizes an empty satisfaction in knowing that she too sold out, and despite her declaration against his ambition, in the end she created her own page on "his" Facebook.