A novel experience

Rating: 9/10 (24 April 2020)

Over the years, I have fallen in love with David Fincher's creations. The taut storylines, unconventional characters and above all the unexpected twists, had characterised Fincher's films for me. 'The Social Network ', on the other hand, seems to be a deviation from his usual genre of films. The movie is again, about the background story of one of our beloved websites or applications. Naturally, this unusual combination was quite intriguing. The screenplay, at first, is quite difficult to follow. It makes the viewers keep on guessing about the track that the movie is going to follow. Few minutes into the movie, the non -linear screenplay gradually starts making sense and at the end of two hours it presents us with one of the best 'storylines'(or it can be said interchangeably as 'screenplay') in the recent times. It tells brilliantly the thought process and actions that had gone behind in establishing one of the successful organisations today, which though brilliant and ground-breaking, is sordid and ruthless in equal parts. It is very hard to describe who has put forward the best performance in the film. The acting, the minimal background music and all other associated acts offer such a continuum of experience, it sucks the audience inside and make them feel as a participant of the events that had taken place.