Not a very pleasant movie

Rating: 7/10 (10 January 2011)

Don't get me wrong. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. The plot device of legal disposition was clever and kept me interested till the end. The acting was great, especially Jesse Eisenberg in the role of Zuckerberg. But I have to say that there wasn't one character in the whole movie that I could like or sympathize with. Just a bunch of conceited juvenile brats backstabbing each other. Granted that may have been the point of the movie after all.
And I felt that the movie was overall very demeaning to women. Not a single woman is allowed to have any significant role to play in the whole story, girls are just playthings that come along once you've got fame and fortune. And these women are supposed to be coeds in the same prestigious schools that these brats are so proud of.
In fact the one character I liked was Zuckerberg's girlfriend who dumped him. She was the only woman with pride in herself in the whole movie. The scene where she gave a cold shoulder to Zuckerberg who was raving about his new invention, that scene was the most refreshing one to me.
Oh, and the most hilarious scene to me was when Winklevoss twins took their grievance to Harvard president and were confronted by sarcastic Mr. Sumners.