The Social Network (2010)

This is a SOCIAL NETWORK movie review, so if you haven’t seen it, and don’t want me to spoil it, DON’T READ THIS!

Damn. I knew this movie was good, but it was totally not what I was expecting. It’s told in chronological order, but it’s fragmented in the fact that there is two lawsuits coinciding at exactly the same time, which reminisce upon the creation of facebook.

Sadly, Mark Zuckerberg and basically everyone who it’s based on says that this movie is not representative of almost anything that happened. Many parts were overdramatized, and some of the stuff didn’t even exist. It was more fiction than fact. I think that it’s sad because the fact that millions and millions of people who are watching TSN don’t know that this isn’t true, might really think that this is what it’s really like. I bet it’s fucking boring, but I mean, there had to be some true things. Well, at the end of the day, it was a good story, regardless of the fact that it was fiction: It was entertaining, funny and provocative without being annoying.The acting was really good too! I really liked it.

Main Characters:

1. Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg): In this movie, I feel like he’s autistic or like has Asperger’s on top of ADD or something because he’s like a genius, but so socially like unaware, it’s really strange. Like he really doesn’t give two shits about anybody. He doesn’t mind fucking over his best friend, jacking ideas, and the fact that he’s getting sued out of his mind. It’s like nothing fazes him. Oh yeah, and he talks so fucking fast, like a lot faster than me, so for the first 5 minutes, I didn’t even understand what was going on. Jesse Eisenberg really depicted whatever David Fincher’s notion of Mark was, maybe it might not be really how he acts but his version was pretty damn good.
2. Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield): Mark’s (former) best friend, original CFO of facebook, and fucking screwed out of most of the money that fb made. Well, at least he got a shit ton of money in the settlement. But it’s crazy. I don’t know how I would feel if suddenly my BFF cut me out of their lives…this shit is out of control. Honestly the whole time I was like why is this white Jewish guy named Eduardo?!! I looked it up on Wiki, and it’s bc he was born in Brazil and lived in Miami! So weird! The title of the blog is for him though…so sad. For reals. OMG. But he was charged for feeding a chicken chicken nuggets?! HAHAHAHAHHAHA BEST PART OF MOVIE EVER!
3. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (Armie Hammer): Mark calls them the “Winklevi” as plural for Winklevoss, so funny! Probably my favorite line in the movie! Anyways, there are the typical All-American, tall, white, blonde, rich trust fund boys that you would imagine at an Ivy league school. They’re pretty fucking cute, and both guys are played by one guy. He had a body double and they super imposed his face and stuff or filmed it twice. SO COOL!
4. Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake): Co-founder of Napster and Mark’s new BFF when he moves out to Palo Alto. Basically, he screwed Eduardo. Sad. I really didn’t like his character too much, he tried to project the image of “COOL” but it only made him seem super lame, I think that’s what Sean Parker’s personality was like, it’s not JT’s fault haha. But then again, can you believe this story?

Con:

• They don’t really explain anything that well. What exactly Saverin and the Winklevoss twins were suing for, you don’t get 65million for claiming that someone “stole” your idea. There must be something else? What’s really going on that TSN isn’t explaining? And for the first 5 minutes, they talk about Harvard’s “final clubs” WTF IS THAT? I’M NOT COOL, TSN, YOU HAVE TO FILL ME IN ON THAT SHIT! I wiki’d it when I got home, I mean, it basically seems like a more elite version of a frat, with hazing and all that. I don’t know. I’m not cool, don’t quote me on that.

Pro:

• Good story line, intense, left me feeling a little mind fucked, a little geekier, and when I logged onto FB an hour later, I just felt so strange. I was like DAMN DUDE, the history of this is crazy. No matter what’s real and what’s not, FB was founded in 2004 with a total of zero members, and now has more than 500 million people just 6 years later. It’s crazy how weird life is.

Business card: “Mark Zuckerberg: I’m CEO, BITCH!”