THE SOCIAL NETWORK

The Social Network stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake and Rooney Mara. Directed by David Fincher. Rated PG-13 with a running time of 2 hrs.

On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.

A movie about the creation of Facebook at first thought wouldn't seem like a very good movie idea. But with the right director, writer and cast The Social Network is actually very intense and absolutely fascinating. Eisenberg stars as Mark Zuckerberg who at the age of 19 created what was basically to become the social networking site that over 500 million people use today. I think that Eisenberg did a fine job at translating the socially awkward genius. Garfield plays Zuckerberg's only real friend and they go into business together to create the facebook. Unfortunately to create this social networking site Zuckerberg lost his only true friend. To see this friendship unravel in the movie was very intense and heartbreaking at times. The scene when Garfield's character get screwed by Zuckerberg and Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake) was very dramatic and I think Garfield did a great job at portraying these emotions. He is the future Spider-Man so after seeing him in this I can't wait and see what he will bring to that role. Justin Timberlake plays Sean Parker who created Napster and comes in to kind of mentor Zuckerberg and get the company started. Parker isn't really a nice guy and I bet that he is the one who really screws over Eduardo Saverin (Garfield) but it was sad to see that Zuckerberg didn't really care what happened to him.

Essentially Zuckerberg created Facebook because he was dumped by a girl. The motivation to impress her really started his journey to make Facebook. There are a few slow spots in the film but rest of the movie is quite fascinating seeing this 19 year old become the world's youngest billionaire. It is quite ironic that the man who created one of the worlds most popular social networking site is actually socially awkward in real life. While I don't think its one of the best movies I have ever scene it is up there and very memorable.

B+