The Social Network Review

Rating: Null/10 (16 September 2012)

The Director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin rush through a series of attempts and failures, achievements and disloyalty ending with what feels like a gloominess conclusion on an lonely soul. This film is extremely entertaining and feels like a psychologically roller-coaster. The film is created around a depressed inconsistency: in 2003, Mark Zuckerberg played by Jesse Eisenberg, is a 19 year old sophomore at Harvard. Mark formulates Facebook and ultimately creates a 500 million person network of "friends," but he is so narcissistic, driven, and introverted that he can't stay close to anyone. Mark dumps his one and only real friend, Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield), who is also a student at Harvard and assisted in helping Mark initiate the social network. The film The Social Network contains amazing satire because the inner theme is not connectivity but rather a disconnection. This movie is about the beginning of a technology calculated to get people closer together and showcases a main character who learns the agonizing disbanding of social connections. The theme has a strong connection with the movie You've Got Mail. The new technology shows how social connections can be made without really understanding the real life connections that goes along with it. The Social Network contains social disbanding is weakened by its swarming network of known, friendly signifiers. It implies that yes was friends with these signifiers as much as we are friends with hundreds or thousands of people on Facebook. As represented in the film, the social site doesn't really carry people together in a significant way. The film contains dissimilar lawsuit depositions as the movies framing tool, it follows this intellectual but socially uncomfortable student Mark Zuckerberg as he heads down the path moving to Facebook after breaking up with by a girl he likes (Rooney Mara). As an Internet joke he pulls for redemption for his punishment, lands him in a mess with the Harvard board members. At the same time he gathers the attention from other wealth Harvard students who would otherwise keep away from him, the Winklevoss twin brothers (Josh Pence & Armie Hammer). They offer him a job to work on their social site and later claim he stole their idea. Mark also gets sued by his once best and only real friend Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield). Eduado was one of the original investors to start the site Mark envisioned. Mark is eventually courted by Sean Parker (Justin Timerlake) the owner of the music site Napster. Sean convinces Mark to move his site home base to Silicon Valley to allow access to wealth venture capitalists seeking outside inventors. The last scene in my opinion contains the mastery of the film by never breaking the 180 degrees during the heated conversation between Mark and Erica. This meeting illustrates the spectator more into the story because there is a smaller amount of a need to resituate the person within the scene. The motif that all of us can relate to is that social acceptance occurs throughout the film. Mark is building Facebook because he is trying to gain social acceptance. The scene that highlights this the most is when Erica questions Mark's fascination with "Final Clubs" because of the influence they supply its members. Facebook is shown as a social network but it also shows the variations from the competitive sites. The film itself is more about the creation of Facebook and the history of how the company was started, more than the actual social networking site itself. The movie is really about human actions more than anything else. How personal agendas and greed sometimes get ahead of friendship, morals and teamwork.