A original movie, cold, but quite fascinating and captivating

Rating: 8/10 (1 October 2010)

The Social Network is a good film to contradict a frequent argument that cinema is running out of Ideas. History is always in the making, so there are always new stories to tell. The question is not so much which stories are worth telling but how they are told. This one is worth telling and told well enough to earn its place as one of the best films of the year.
FACEBOOK is among the greatest cultural innovations of the free world so far this century, and even with 500 million users, I'm not even sure the site is in its prime yet. (It has yet to be legalized in China). Ironically, the simple fact that FACEBOOK is young is the movie's only problem (from a film point of view) David Fincher is telling a story that feels incomplete
Imagine if Citizen Kane ended with Charles Foster becoming the king of American Newspaper. It would be an epic build up, but there would still be much to tell. That's sort of the way it feels with The Social Network. The ending is rushed, but then again what else was there to do, wait eighty years for Mark Zuckerberg to die, and make the movie then? (encompassing his whole life).
The Social Network is about how Zuckerberg came to power. When the film ends, he has a little over a million users. It is a short time span to work with, but it is to the great credit of David Fincher and writer Aaron Sorkin that this motion picture is without a dull moment. This is a rapid fire motion picture, is one clever line after another, and some are pretty funny. Jesse Eisenberg gives a fiery performance, aided in part by his dialogue, and I also got a kick out of one sequence with involves a kayak race directed in music video fashion (which is where David Fincher has his roots)
I can definitely see the Social Network finding its way to the Academy awards. It will certainly be a proud moment for David Fincher who with each movie seems to be getting a larger voice.