We learn nothing of facebook or who created it. This is the action movie of litigation films.

Rating: 3/10 (19 September 2010)

David Fincher's "The Social Network," promised to be meaningful expose on what facebook really means. Radiohead's "Creep" plays during the trailer as we watch facebook clicks and posts. "Don't care if it hurts/ Wanna have control/ I want a perfect body/ I want a perfect soul/ I want you to notice/ When I'm not around/ You're so very special/ I wish I was special/ And I'm a creep/ I'm a weirdo/ What the hell am I doing here."
We were lied to. Every character in The Social Network is an empty shell. In a baffling antithesis to the trailer, we are deliberately kept from ever seeing any emotional depth. Relentless aberrations of ego dominate the film as we watch Mark party, meet the hotshot creator of napster and perform business deals.
In what felt like the only scene of value in the film, we start by seeing Mark get dumped by his girlfriend "not for being a computer nerd, but for being a dick." His revenge is to call her a "bitch" on his livejournal and create, "facemash," a website that ranks every girl's attractiveness on campus by having men vote who's hotter between two girls. And while the movie briefly explores the effect this had on his ex-girlfriend and the other female students, Mark never accepts or grows from the idea that he committed wrong, and we instead watch him heroically stand up to the evil school board that punishes him. What follows this wonderful patriarchal attack is a slew of parties, girls and celebrity.
The movie cuts between litigation over the money of facebook and Mark's rise to power. What facebook actually means to Mark, or to any of the users, is never actually explored. The film ends with the words, "Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire to date." How perfect to sum up this void of two hours. What you are to take away is the comfort of knowing you spent time with someone who has more money then you, drank more alcohol than you, knew more famous people then you and got richer than you. If you enjoy a vicarious ego trip with no emotional gratification, this is the film for you. Be prepared to not care about anyone.