My Movie Review: The Social Network

My Movie Review: The Social Network
4.5/5

Opening Statement: The re-telling of the invention of facebook starring Jesse Eisenberg as MArk Zuckerberg a young man  who started the billion dollar network all starting from a break up and a drunk night in his dorm room at Harvard. He finds himself in several lawsuit disputes toward the future.


What's Good: Aaron Sorkin is the biggest player here with a witty, yet touching screenplay. He is simply telling us a story, no pauses to reflect on emotion, in fact the emotion is pretty much displayed in the words each character says. I have never seen a story told to me this way. Fincher's excellend direction helps to, we have a nice dark tone to the film. This isn't the "Facebook: Movie" you probably see the facebook site itself 2 times only in the runtime which stretches a bit over 2 hours. This is a movie about invention in a modern day world. There is one scene that is spectacular with the Winklevoss twins (played by Armie Hammer) as they go to see the Harvard president about getting their billion dollar idea stolen. The president basically talks to them like children who just had a toy stolen. This movie touches base on several emotions, but in a subtle way. Toward the beginning you empathize with Zuckerberg, toward the middle you start disliking him, and by the end you understand his character fully. This movie is the most intelligent movie of the year, definitely one of the better ones which deserves Oscar nods for Picture, Director, Screenplay, and acting nods for Eisenberg primarily who has genuinely evolved since Zombieland (4/5) from an awkward comedic virgin to a person I now know can really REALLY act. 


What's Bad: For me, absolutely nothing. For others, I can see this movie touching them but them still believing its not perfect. It was tough for me not to give this brilliant film a 5/5 I was on edge the whole time. But outside my own perspective of the film, audiences may think its just great, no larger use of the word.


The Rant: THIS IS NOT A MOVIE ABOUT FACEBOOK. If you were hoping for a two hour movie about wall postings and shit, you are out of luck. So many stubborn online people have taken the liberty to say this film CAN NOT be good cause it is ABOUT facebook. This movie is about the invention of facebook, and probably not much of that either. It is about the loss of innocence, the modern day inventions, the damaged characters. So if you tell me that its about FACEBOOK I will get in your face (about to fight style) and tell you off...so be ready.


Consensus: This movie is the most brilliant film of the year. Eisenberg gives an Oscar worthy performance along with directer and writer Fincher/ Sorking. This goes beyond the simple website facebook to the emotional struggles of its invention. This is the movie of the year.