The movie started with Mark Zuckerbeg working on a new idea. Initially with Facemash, a site to compare 2 photo of girls and vote the hotter one, it explores the moment which ignited the Facebook legacy.
The film started from the halls of Harvard to the cubicles of Palo Alto to capture the early days of a culture-changing phenomenon and the way it both pulled a group of young revolutionaries together.
The main characters are Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg), the brilliant Harvard student who create websites, Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield), once Zuckerberg's close friend, who provided the initial money for Facebook, and Napster founder Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake).
Sean Parker brought Facebook to Silicon Valley's venture capitalists, which made them expand and continued its growth.
Not forgetting the Winklevoss twins (Armie Hammer and Josh Pence), the Harvard classmates who insisted that Zuckerberg stole their idea and sued him for ownership of it.
By the way, did you know that the twins are played by two different person? The twins are actually played by Armie Hammer and Josh Pence.
Overall, the storyline was pretty interesting. Despite the lack of actions and a lot of dialogues and conversations, the plot is attention-grabbing. It's probably due to the fact that it's about "Facebook" - one of the leading sites on the Internet! Who doesn't know about Facebook right?
Anyway, I personally think the best actor in The Social Network casts is Andrew Garfield, who played Eduardo Saverin. His expressions and personalities certainly made the movie more dramatic, since he initially funded Facebook and got betrayed later on.
According to the movie, it seems that there were lots of controversies throughout the period Facebook was at its early stages. Hence the sub-title "You Don't Get To 500 Million Friends Without Making a Few Enemies".
Even though the storyline is pretty true, The Social Network is adapted from Ben Mezrich's 2009 book "The Accidental Billionaires".
Noobie Rating: 8/10 (Watch it. Good movie!)
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