Entertainment. Not biography

Rating: 7/10 (27 June 2011)

This film won a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar and a Golden Globe for best picture. Now many would argue that better films were written/made in 2010. But let's consider this movie on its own.
It has budding stars in Eisenberg and Garfield, who'll be taking up the mantle of the non-traditional hero in the future and The Social Network will be a big reason why. Timberlake made me take notice too. The music (Best Original Score) is a big reason why people enjoyed this movie and its not hard to see why Trent Reznor is so popular among those who care.
Now as the audience, the only things that got me interested in the movie before seeing it, was Facebook and the masterful David Fincher. Like in most of his films, he wants us to open our eyes to stuff we wouldn't usually even think of (Se7en, Fight Club). Before watching The Social Network, we know we love Facebook and we just want to know more about its creator, Mark Zuckerberg. And we find out stuff we wouldn't know otherwise about Mark, his girlfriend, his best friend Eduardo and others his Facebook venture touched. We are thoroughly entertained and pass this news to our friends, mostly through Facebook.
But in the end, we're compelled to ask ourselves a doubt (unlike in Se7en or Fight Club): "Was Mark really an a**hole?"