Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Review: the social network


Director: David Fincher

Release date: 28 October 2010

Genre: Drama, biography, history (actually who cares)

Casting: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake

Memorable quote:
Eduardo Saverin: You better lawyer up, asshole, because I'm not coming back for the 30%. I'm coming back for everything!
And
Marylin Delpy: The site got twenty-two hundred hits within two hours?
Mark Zuckerberg: Thousand.
Marylin Delpy: I'm sorry?
Mark Zuckerberg: Twenty-two *thousand*.

What?
Again this is one of those intros where I’m not sure what to write. Considering the fact that if you don’t know what this movie is about, you probably lived on mars the last couple of years. Well let's say the movie talks about the birth off a country, which at this point reached 600 million citizens. Got the idea, the social network is the declaration of independence of Facebook. The social network gives you the history, the kings and battles of Facebook. Oh and of course the one and only Mark Zuckerberg. Haven’t heard of him either well than just crawl back to the cave where you came from.

Yes?
The movie was anticipated, everyone wanted to watch it and guess what a lot of people watched it. It all started with a brilliant director that brought you, I wouldn’t say big movies, but freaking awesome movies like fight club and Seven. Later on we had a beautiful script, that was based on the book of Mazerich (which is great, yeah I read sometimes too!) and last but not least we had great actors. Eisenberg was perfect for this part, supergeek, not too handsome, but this character was just amazing. I think the movie found his strength from the amazing dialogues found here, in which you almost always find Eisenberg. I believe he was born for this part. Personally I like Timberlake, he has this flashy image that just walks with him, and he too was great for the part. You find in the movie a love hate relationship with Zuckerberg, you like him for what he creates, but hate the fact how he does it and especially to Saverin, especially loved this part.

No?
I’m not sure I liked the switching between all the lawsuits and flashbacks, but it worked out at the end. So maybe we could rethink this but still a minor disturbance for me. I think that’s it actually.

Well
I liked this movie a lot; it was fun to watch and interesting to know a bit more about Facebook. There was a good flow in the movie; you didn’t have to much dry spots. As we all know it got already a couple rewards and I deeply believe it’s going to grab a couple more. Definitely watch it if you haven’t yet get to it and fast, this is the history of our generation, be a part of it. Because of all the above I grade this one…

Grade: 8 out of 10

Mammoth

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