A Misleading but Decent Movie...

Rating: Null/10 (14 September 2011)

In The Social Network Jessie Eisenhower plays Mark Zuckerberg. Mark is a very talented with computers. After a date gone wrong with girlfriend Erica Albright played by Rooney Mara he gets dumped. He then goes to his dorm to blog about it. In this time he comes up with the idea to rate girls on their attractiveness to each other. He then makes a program to do just that. Once he gets the site up and running it crashes Harvard's servers and he gets put on academic probation.
The theme of this movie is that doing whatever you can to get to where you want to be may not always be the best choice. This comes into play when Eduardo played by Andrew Garfield lends Mark the money to get started on his newest idea. Mark wants to set up a safe social networking site. He comes to Eduardo after talking to the Winklevoss twins played by Armie Hammer. Eduardo doesn't know that Mark agreed to help the twins set up such a site for Harvard. Eduardo then goes into business with Mark. They start the site and things go okay until they meet Sean Parker as played by Justin Timberlake. Mark is only thinking about making his site huge and doesn't care about anyone else's feelings about what is happening.
Once Sean comes into play the idea for the site gets even bigger. Eduardo is threatened by Sean and tells Mark. Mark is only thinking about making his site huge and doesn't care about anyone else's feelings about what is happening. Mark tells him he is over reacting and goes to California for the place of operation on behalf of The Facebook. Eduardo finds out Sean lives there gets mad and returns back home and freezes the bank account. This is where the relationship between Mark and Eduardo becomes strained because Mark feels betrayed by the account being frozen and Eduardo feels he is being booted out of the whole idea since Sean arrived. Eduardo is being used for his money and isn't getting any credit for the site even though he has been there from the beginning. Even though all he did was lend Mark the money he should still be considered a founder and Mark feels like he is the one that deserves everything and no one else.
Soon Mark gets sued by Eduardo and the Winklevoss'. He is being sued by Eduardo for cutting him out of the company and the Winklevoss's sue because they say Mark stole their idea. This is where the theme comes in. Mark loses one of his good friends because he is too concerned with what he wants to happen. He thinks it was all his idea and not one of them deserves a piece of the money or fame from it. This movie and Mark remind me of the movie Citizen Kane. Kane and Mark both care more about the fame and money than the idea of losing friends and family. He alienates himself from his friends to achieve his goals. The low key lighting in the movie helps show the viewer how isolated he is from everyone. The motif that is repeated in this movie is scenes with Mark by himself because he has once again alienated himself from his friends by his actions.
Mark lost all his friends due to making this social site. He was interested in making his site come to life than working on his friendships. He lost a lot to achieve his goals. I found this movie to be a little misleading. I thought it was going to be about how Facebook was made and it was more about the legal side of it. The acting was good because Jessie played himself as an outsider. He acted like he didn't care about anything that was in front of him except the website. It did give a lot of insight on the person Mark Zuckerburg is. All in all it was a decent movie.