A Prolific Review: The Social Network

Rating: 9/10 (13 January 2011)

Imagine a 500 million users active in a social networking site that beats the competition. Isn't that a perception that we are willing to receive? Or we need to take the risk to do a lot of bad habits just to improve the creation that a person is really passionate about? Mark Zuckerberg (the real one) falls into this category, but he made his creation millions of milestones worldwide. But before he made his dorm room project called Facebook, the law was definitely against him.
The Social Network is based on a biographical book The Accidental Billionaires written by non-fiction author Ben Mezrich who also wrote Bringing Down The House and also titled differently as 21. The film plots about Mark Zuckerberg's (Jesse Eisenberg) revenge on his girlfriend by getting wasted on his college dorm room and starting to hack his way on a website called FaceMash that is similar to HotorNot, and comparing her to farm animals by hacking through a bunch of photos on Face Books on Harvard. He was aided by Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield). As a hacking prodigy, he was sued by the Harvard community for an intrusion from the university's computers. Started only as an offensive idea, but it occurred to Zuckerberg that the fact is that there is a fascinating idea behind FaceMash. Afterwards, Zuckerberg's programming skills were recognized by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss and Divya Nerendra whom are students in Harvard and asks for writing codes for a social networking site called HarvardConnection but will use the domain from Harvard's website. But later on, Zuckerberg tend to ignore Winklevoss' idea and turn it into a social networking site that was only exclusive to Harvard students. And he was aided by his dorm room friends particularly Chris Hughes, and Dustin Moskovitz. It turn's out that they failed to privately secure the site to Harvard studs and it was exclusive to all prestigious universities. As the company grew, it reveals that what they were aiming is all about the money and business.
It is completely based on the book which was quite a false biographical statement. Zuckerberg never took revenge to his girlfriend. His idea for FaceMash were only for fun according from an interview. But it was completely offensive, yes. And Zuckerberg apologized publicly for that. In amidst of accepting the help of the Winklevoss' he was also accused of stealing an idea for a social network. He was hacker, but not a stealer. He created a social networking site called thefacebook back in 2005 and ranked to be the most visited social network exclusively to college studs and later on to all of ages. And the whole wide web is patronizing the only social network that beats Friendster and MySpace which were a former bright companies. It is now called Facebook.
Furthermore, this film gave a lot of impact to the real CEO of Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg never liked this film, because they made it while he was still living. And he didn't want his fidelity to be revealed. Writer Aaron Sorkin also made the whole story to fictional and his naivete insulted Zuckerberg a little bit. This was a good biographical film that David Fincher directed after all, as in Fight Club and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button that garnered Oscar awards. Facebook already won the heart of the world wide web. The question is, will it win the heart of the 2011 Golden Globes or the Oscars?