Revenge of The Nerds: A 21st Century "CITIZEN KANE" - A Damn Entertaining Movie!

Rating: 10/10 (4 October 2010)

THE SOCIAL NETWORK (2010) **** Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Armie Hammer, Josh Pence, Justin Timberlake, Max Minghella, John Getz, David Selby, Rashida Jones, Rooney Mara. Filmmaker David Fincher's masterful direction and a clever adaptation of Ben Mezrich's book "The Accidental Billionaires" by screenwriter Aaron Sorkin is exemplary in this look at the starting point of the Internet phenom, Facebook, and how its 'founder' in question Mark Zuckerberg (Eisenberg in a star-making, shrewd turn), a Harvard computer science geek whose 'revenge of the nerds' trappings belies his genius in tapping into the social zeitgeist of enhancing the college experience into the global ethersphere by incorporating a shred of an idea consulted on by fellow classmates, the Winklevoss brothers (Hammer & Pence), crew rowing to-the-manor-borns-wanna-be capitalists and throwing his best (and only) friend Eduardo Saverin (amiable patsy Garfield), the chief financier, under the boss in his seemingly ruthless chance to cash in on something truly amazing (no thanks to gadfly turn by Timberlake, the catalyst as Napster creator Sean Parker, seeing dollars & sense for his comrade-in-arms). Telling true just how maddeningly addictive the format is (me? Guilty as charged) and how one can be overwhelmed and yet embraced of the fruits of one's labor (apparently at any cost) is the stuff dare I say it as a 21st century CITIZEN KANE? Easily the film of the year (so far) and a damn entertaining one too boot!