Shawn and I finally went to watch The Social Network. Honestly, there was nothing I didn't like about this movie. Jesse Eisenberg's performance is a revelation, and quite frankly, Oscar-worthy. Let's be honest, a movie about Facebook could've flopped big time, but David Fincher really makes it work. He takes the story about one of the Internet era's most significant contributions and makes it timeless with themes of friendship, betrayal, truth, power, and envy. The Social Network could've been a ridiculously boring film, featuring the drier sides of computer programming, intellectual property theft, and law suits. But it was captivating, exhilarating, absorbing, elegant, and something of a masterpiece.
Rating: 5/5
agreed; i thought it was really well done, and it's especially impressive because, as you said, a "movie about facebook" could potentially have been really shitty.
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