Great acting movie

Rating: Null/10 (23 February 2016)

In some ways I do think this film was made a bit early. Facebook isn't that old a phenomenon, and thus a movie about its origins seems rushed as I don't think we have enough distance to view it objectively. That being said, David Fincher has pulled off some miracles here and I think this is about as perfect a movie about Facebook as was possible to be made. Some of its events and depictions can be argued with and you can definitely see that sometimes things are stretched in the name of drama, but as a story it works really well and will definitely give you some perspective on the web page most of us have come to rely on.
And at the centre of it all is Mark Zuckerberg played by Jesse Eisenberg in probably his best role performance so far. Zuckerberg is a great character. From the very first scene, where he's talking with his college girlfriend, you get this guy. He's a genius and in his case it's also a burden, a curse. He's in a constant state of frustration because to him everyone else seems to be moving in slow-motion. Everyone is always one or two steps behind and he has to slow done to let them catch up.
The movie deals with Zuckerberg's days in college while he was getting Facebook off the ground and with the legal battles that he had to go through later because everyone tried to stake their claim on the pot of gold he had founded. The movie is good at not taking sides and showing that while Zuckerberg certainly did some slightly questionable things, it's not like the other side was completely in the right either.
All in all The Social Network is worth a watch because it has great actors lead by a great director and the subject matter is something we're all familiar with and know personally. Best film of the year? Probably not, but it's up there.