Really good movie

Rating: 9/10 (31 October 2010)

I just recently saw this movie and I was hooked with it since the first scene. The story focuses around Mark Zuckerberg and the creation of Facebook but I believe that this movie centers around the tragedy through the triumph of his billion dollar company. The movie is certainly not a fact based documentary because Fincher and Sorkin try to make the movie a visual spectacle. If this was a documentary, it would mainly be a bunch of young programmers coding which as a computer science student, I can tell you is not that entertaining. The movie comes off as an entertaining courtroom drama. I also like the way Fincher and Sorkin manage to find many different elements such as a romantic angle with Zuckerberg and Erica Albright, although it was Erica might not be a real person, her character is an important one at the climax and you feel empathy for Zuckerberg at the end of the movie. There is also the fight against the Winklevoss brothers and Divya Narendra. This shows the dark side of the inception of Facebook when Zuckerberg looks like he just stole the idea. Another aspect of the movie that was good was the music by Trent Reznor, it captures the emotions really well. The casting was also brilliant. At first I was skeptical of Jesse Eisenberg as I had seen him in Zombieland and Charlie Banks and didn't seem to offer anything different. He seemed pretty bland to be honest but in this movie he came off really well. His performance was dynamic and exciting. So were Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake, they were really good in this movie. I recommend this movie for people of all ages, as we all use Facebook and it shows a quick glimpse of how it came to be.