Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher make a great movie!

Rating: 8/10 (16 November 2010)

David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin come together for what could be this year's bet movie. David Fincher has steadily been making a name for himself as on of the the best modern day American directors. He has directed the likes of Fight Club, Seven and 2007's criminally underrated masterpiece Zodiac.
All his movies have been trying to make a commentary on society. I don't know whether its a conscious effort but somehow it happens in his movies because of the topic he chooses and the way in which he tries to tell his story. He does owe quite a lot to his writers like Andrew Kevin Walker, Chuck Palhaniuk and Aaron Sorkin with this movie. His movies are well made and there is never a boring moment or tired moment in them.
Aaron Sorkin has proved himself to be one of the best writers in the business and he has written or co written 66 of the 86 episodes of the West Wing. He has this flair for rapid fire, interesting dialogue Thai is always saying them. Sorkin uses a lot of words but never wastes them. He always gets the point across.
When two minds like this come together even the the biggest Facebook hater will be interested. What earlier was touted as a simply a Facebook movie came to be much more when it was given in the talented hands of these two.
The Social Network is about Mark Zuckerberg's rise to fame and what followed soon after. Zuckerberg is portrayed as a more disconnected person than a cold one. It is not that he hates people or his friends it is that he simply doesn't need them. He loves programming not because he wants to be famous or earn money but it is the only place in the world he finds comfortable where things make sense to him. Relationships, girlfriends are somehow absent from his life. Sometimes we do see him longing for the past when he had a girlfriend, when there was a little tenderness in his life. But they are few or far between. Zuckerberg isn't a terrible person he just seems to be very disconnected. Like Mersault's character in the Stranger. He is brilliantly played by Jesse Eisenberg who is coming in to his own as an actor. I thought he would become more like Cera but he has differentiated himself from Cera and the awkward guy role into something more menacing. But all the anger, frustration is wonderfully masked and lies just at the surface.
The Social Network is not being religious to detail, fact and accuracy. Sorking said as much is in his interview. While I do not agree with what he said I believe the movie is a very good one. It entertains the viewer, it informs him and it also encourages debate and discussion and that is what art should do. It observes facts and presents them in a fairly dramatized way but I guess they had to submit to the producers in that sort of way.