The Social Network

Rating: 10/10 (10 December 2010)

Note: The original text is in Portuguese. I use the Google Translator to translate. I revised the text and I think there are no problems.
The Social Network reveals the behind the creation of Facebook, a site created by Mark Zuckerberg, who, ironically, despite having become the youngest billionaire in the world creating the largest Internet social network, was unable to keep his only true friend.
The screenplay, written by Aaron Sorkin and adapted from the book "The Accidental Billionaires" is very well structured, interspersing the story of the creation of Facebook and lawsuits over Zuckerberg, one by the Winkelvoss twins (Armie Hammer) together to their partner Divya Narendra (Max Minghella) and another by his former best friend, the Brazilian Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield). The editing, by Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall, together the extremely fast dialogs become efficient in making an analogy with the speed of information on the Internet today.
Played by Jesse Eissenberg (Zumbiland), very talented young actor, Mark Zuckerberg is portrayed as a very complex person. A cold, expressionless guy, who we never know for sure his true personality. And working on it, Donald Graham Burt (production designer who worked with Fincher on Zodiac and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) creates a dark universe, lifeless, that portrays the indifference and lack of importance that the protagonist has with the world around him. Also in this context, David Fincher, brilliantly chooses a direction with a small depth of field, focusing only on what is important from the standpoint of Zuckerberg. Thus, when it comes to following the henley sequence, in which nothing has any connection with the life of Zuckerberg, strong colors, intense lighting and a almost completely blur take care of the sequence.
Moreover, the depth of field turns out to be the only outstanding device in Fincher's direction for The Social Network, which performs a moderate direction in relation to his other movies. But even restrained, Fincher shows excellence in portraying visually the obscure personality of Zuckerberg on the sequence in which Sean, the creator of Napster (played by Justin Timberlake), is arrested. Sean phones Zuckerberg and while he explains the situation, the plan below is a closeup of the face of Zuckerberg and a light being extinguished in the background, a simple detail that would mean nothing if later, Zuckerberg was not questioned for being himself the responsible for Sean's arresting.
Anti) Hero? Villain? The film leaves the viewer to consider it. But with all that has been exposed, I could not help but agree with the sentence said to Zuckerberg by one of his legal advisers: "You're not an asshole, Mark. You're just trying so hard to be. "
Thus, The Social Network - even if not surpassing Zodiac, the director's masterpiece - it's a gem in the filmography of Fincher and may be considered one of the best biopics ever made.