A Fincher classic

Rating: 8/10 (15 January 2011)

The social Network directed by David Fincher is the story behind the pillar of our social lives- Facebook. It claims to dramatize the 'events' that took place in developing 'facebook'. Mark Zukerberg(Eisenberg) , just after being dumped by his girlfriend and drunk ,defames her on his blog, he later creates facemash.com a portal to rate and compare university girls based on their looks. All this leads to a lot of flak from others and then an idea. The idea that will become the most used social networking platform, ever. But this 'idea' is built on with the help of the winklevoss twins(Hammer) and funded by his best friend Eduardo(Garfield). But a few years later we see Zukerberg at a court being sued by the Winklevoss brothers and Eduardo. The film is about the events that led to the case.
We all know this, the real Zukerberg claimed the film is almost entirely fiction while the makers claimed its entirely true and only 'dramatized'. This very difference of opinion made millions to want to watch this movie. But all that apart, 'the social network' is another Fincher classic. Fabulous performance from Eisenberg and Garfield , also Timberlake was surprisingly convincing as the cunning and suave entrepreneur-Sean parker. The perfect casting is the highlight of this movie and a great screenplay(by Aron Sorkin) complements it. The dialogues are smart yet they don't seem dramatic, the pace of the film never makes any moment of this two hour flick seem boring.
And so it really doesn't matter if its fiction or completely real, the events in 'the social network' is something you will remember often , when you 'add a friend' or 'like' a comment on facebook simply because a 25 billion dollar company that puts wheels' our social lives couldn't have been made for the silver screen in a better and classy way.