Loyalty and friendship are the major points in this masterpiece by David Fincher, but it is also a great potrail of what success is able to do to those things. Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin started of to be best friends at the Harvard University only to drift apart with the success of Facebook, a invention initiated by both.
The success of the site and the money that is flowing in due to the success are bringing in a few other individuals and step by step the two former best friends are losing sight of each other. After a long journey they end up in some sort of court to try to solve their issues both financially and from a pride perspective. This is the ultimate breakdown for a friendship, but David Fincher was able to display this breakdown without getting into really deep emotions or so, he just describes the surface and therefor doesn´t go deep into the mind of computer genius Mark Zuckerberg. Only Eduardos mind is scratched because of an emotional outburst at the court where he explains – close to tearing up – that he was the only real friend Mark Zuckerberg ever had. So friendship, loyalty and at the end also jealousy are the dominating emotions, and those are key emotions in every life. First we start of with friendship and loyalty and in the end we have a mess driven by jealousy through the arrival of Mr. Sean Parker, who wants also a big part of the cake. Success and money really are life-altering things in life, and The Social Network is able to capture that in just 120 minutes.
Zuckerberg – excellently potrayed by Jesse Eisenberg – hardly shows any emotions throughout the film, once the company starts to have real success he is all business, he doesn’t see the friend in Saverin anymore, he only sees the CEO of Facebook, who starts to make bad business decisions and so is a thread for the entire project. That matter is so well displayed throughout the entire movie with Zuckerberg, that it is ridiculously smooth and clear what this character is about.
Already the first expression you get from Zuckerberg makes this clear he is 100 percent analysation and brain, no room for real emotions that also explains the lack in social contacts throughout the movie. The entire script is so well designed by Aaron Sorkin, that every dialogue delivers a message and a character development, so The Social Network is not only about the story and the relationships that are changing within the movie, it´s also a character driven movie, with top notch actors and actress. Without the excellent performances by Eisenberg, Garfield, Timberlake and Armie Hammer this movie wouldn´t live up to the high standard, that it has right know – one of the favorites for the Academy Awards.
So this movie delivers excellent performances, a great story, great dialogues and a great analysis of what happens to relationships and persons that are gaining quick success. Already these facts would make the movie an awesome film, but The Social Network has much more to offer.
With the great technique, that is used David Fincher is not only recreating the development of Facebook, he is showing it as a product, that was made with brains and a lot of thoughts. He is not going into any hype of Mark Zuckerberg, he tries to show him as a human – a human with weaknesses. And he is creating an atmosphere, that is simply refreshing, because you are jumping from one set to another – one time you are in the trial with the Winklevoss Twins because of the stealing of intellectual property, the next time you are right in the process of the development of Facebook and then one moment later you are right in the court with Eduardo Saverin about the screwed up company share. All these different strings are keeping this movie refreshing and they are delivering the story and the side-stories of the development of Facebook in a great way.
One other thing about this movie…the Score. Usually the score is not that important for a movie, but in this case the award winning score is top notch as well. It underlines the story in a silent but driving way. Really every scene, where the score is used is silent and quite but has the appeal that the plot is moving straight forward. And when a score is able to deliver that, it is simply genius.
So The Social Network is a well-rounded movie with a great cast and a simply refreshing way of telling the story of the network Facebook, that changed the life and the social interaction of people forever. It´s not a film that is focusing on the fact, that the Inventors are the greatest people in the world, but it has it´s eyes set on the way, that was walked to get to this multibillion dollar company. And you simply cannot walk this path without making a bunch of enemies around you – just like the promotional poster says “You don´t get to 500 million friend without having a few enemies!”.
Rating : 10 of 10
Zuckerberg – excellently potrayed by Jesse Eisenberg – hardly shows any emotions throughout the film, once the company starts to have real success he is all business, he doesn’t see the friend in Saverin anymore, he only sees the CEO of Facebook, who starts to make bad business decisions and so is a thread for the entire project. That matter is so well displayed throughout the entire movie with Zuckerberg, that it is ridiculously smooth and clear what this character is about.
Already the first expression you get from Zuckerberg makes this clear he is 100 percent analysation and brain, no room for real emotions that also explains the lack in social contacts throughout the movie. The entire script is so well designed by Aaron Sorkin, that every dialogue delivers a message and a character development, so The Social Network is not only about the story and the relationships that are changing within the movie, it´s also a character driven movie, with top notch actors and actress. Without the excellent performances by Eisenberg, Garfield, Timberlake and Armie Hammer this movie wouldn´t live up to the high standard, that it has right know – one of the favorites for the Academy Awards.
So this movie delivers excellent performances, a great story, great dialogues and a great analysis of what happens to relationships and persons that are gaining quick success. Already these facts would make the movie an awesome film, but The Social Network has much more to offer.
With the great technique, that is used David Fincher is not only recreating the development of Facebook, he is showing it as a product, that was made with brains and a lot of thoughts. He is not going into any hype of Mark Zuckerberg, he tries to show him as a human – a human with weaknesses. And he is creating an atmosphere, that is simply refreshing, because you are jumping from one set to another – one time you are in the trial with the Winklevoss Twins because of the stealing of intellectual property, the next time you are right in the process of the development of Facebook and then one moment later you are right in the court with Eduardo Saverin about the screwed up company share. All these different strings are keeping this movie refreshing and they are delivering the story and the side-stories of the development of Facebook in a great way.
One other thing about this movie…the Score. Usually the score is not that important for a movie, but in this case the award winning score is top notch as well. It underlines the story in a silent but driving way. Really every scene, where the score is used is silent and quite but has the appeal that the plot is moving straight forward. And when a score is able to deliver that, it is simply genius.
So The Social Network is a well-rounded movie with a great cast and a simply refreshing way of telling the story of the network Facebook, that changed the life and the social interaction of people forever. It´s not a film that is focusing on the fact, that the Inventors are the greatest people in the world, but it has it´s eyes set on the way, that was walked to get to this multibillion dollar company. And you simply cannot walk this path without making a bunch of enemies around you – just like the promotional poster says “You don´t get to 500 million friend without having a few enemies!”.
Rating : 10 of 10
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