A good look into the Facebook culture and its origins. This is more of a character study, so don't expect action or any special effects here. Definitely worth a watch!

Rating: 8/10 (29 October 2010)

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I have been eagerly awaiting the release of this film, and it actually turned out to be quite a good and engaging watch. First off, this movie hardly has any action or special affects. Its more of a deep character study. So if you are more of the action loving or special affects seeking guy / gal then this may not interest you as much. Even without that, the story kept me quite engaged throughout the length of the film. The director of the film, viz. David Fincher is one of my fav directors, and it looks like in this movie he chose to concentrate more on the story rather than showing off his cinematic and camera skills.
Anyways, the story revolves around Facebook and its origins, and focuses on its now billionaire founder Mark Zuckerberg (who is also the youngest billionaire in the world). As expected by me, the origin of facebook and its concept was motivated by 'women'. Here is a guy (the founder) who found it difficult to get invited to "cool" parties in college and also found it hard to get girls and keep a relationship. And he managed to create a portal and attract guys (who could easily get girls otherwise) to get to sign up on. That in my mind is plain — brilliant! He first made facebook exclusive to only those students who had a 'harvard.edu' email id, under the notion that girls think high of guys from Harvard. Then he slowly made the service available in other prestigious colleges . and finally to the world.
Also, at the time facebook originated, there were similar services already available like MySpace and Friendster. Then why was it that Facebook did so ridiculously better. I don't want to give away too much, but after seeing the movie you will realize that they built the service by giving detailed thought to basic human behaviour and action. And yeah  a small thing like "Relationship Status" on facebook was one of those seemingly petty but at the same time crucial things.
Btw, the ending of the film is a classic example of the power & gritty addiction of facebook (which most people will not admit).