Heavily adapted but brilliant story

Rating: 8/10 (13 July 2011)

I've become a big David Fincher fan over the the years and I've come to expect something when i see his name linked to a film, a certain sense of dark witty humour mixed with subtle clever storytelling and a sense of rebellion that always make the films different from the others available at the time. When i watched the Social network i really didn't know what to expect but wanted typical fincher trademarks and in a way i was disappointed with the lack of darkness about the film i wanted a tale of betrayal and deceit displayed on screen, however i was not disappointed as it was replaced by a film that showed us the emotion between the characters involved with a lot of comic relief which is always witty and never resorts to American slapstick we find so much these days which i believe only children under the age of ten still enjoy but Hollywood still insist on producing. What the makers of this film have managed to do is make a documentary into a vivid and in-depth story, with drama and emotion that all audiences can relate to. I do worry however that the screen play is so good that large amounts of the story have been added to make the film flow and add aspects about character and storyline which in turn has been at the cost of the truth of the situation around the actual creation of facebook. Even to the extent that the real life actors counterparts in some cases refused to help in the making of the film as they felt it was not accurate or true to their real life personalities. Finally the film offers us one very confusing scene in which there is a rowing race in the UK which seems as though it has been agreed to be added as a favour by fincher to a cinematographer as it does not seem to fit in with the pacing or storyline of the film at all but contains some brilliant looking shots and aesthetics to the extent of a cinematographers wet dream.