Incredibly skillful and unique masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (8 November 2010)

I can really only talk in superlatives about what this crew of fine people managed to accomplish here. The key is not even in the sophistication of the separate parts, it's how everything comes together into coherence. Aaron Sorkin truly outdid himself with this script. I tend to dislike "Snappy dialog" but "snappy" here emerges from "meaningless junk that can be applied to any crap to make it somewhat watchable", creating a standalone art form. The absolutely genuine characters - each of them truly interesting and entertaining - are merely played to perfection by around everyone of the absolutely felicitous cast. Finchers unique and familiar skills place this movie on Fight Club territory equaling the artistic values of the classic but support the movie in a more subtle and refined way underlined by Trent Reznors discreet musical universe and the famous, dark cinematographic style of Jeff Cronenweth (7even, FC) which is so welcome considering other directors might have approached the theme as some sunshiny college movie. I'm not a big facebook user, but the fact that it's about one of the surprisingly most relevant and trendy mediums these days, something that touches most peoples lives in one or the other way, the fact that you can like REALLY, personally relate to the whole thing gives a very unique touch, something I never experienced to this degree in a movie before. I guess the timing for picking the subject was just about perfect but who would have thought that someone can pull a serious, artful movie out of a story about the founder of a website so to say. I have absolutely nothing bad to say here, all the fantastic artwork coming together makes The Social Network a high quality, genuine masterpiece that is really hard to forget. Must see for about everyone.