Review- „The social network“

von mariasf203

The movie „The Social Network“was published in2010 inUSAand is directed by David Fincher. The device of the movie is “You can not have 500 millions friends, without having enemies.”, which supports the topic of how Facebook was founded and what were the chances and the risks.

 The founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg who is acted by Jesse Eisenberg and the protagonist of the movie did not impact on the movie. The story of Facebook is brought out right, but at some places it deviates from the truth. 

The movie starts with how Mark is breaking up with his actual girlfriend in a very rude way. From this point he keeps his “scumbag”-charakter trough the whole move. Mark is presented as a nerd, who has not much succes in the social life. Through breaking up with his girlfriend, he gets his idea for “Facemash”which was the forerunner of Facebook. “The Winklevosses” two succesfull Twins of Harvard are asking Mark to help them with his project, which was creating something like Facebook. The twins suing Mark to stole their Idea, and the film shows backflashes and the past, how all that happened and through what the founder have to go. After meeting the founder of popular “Napster”, Facebook becomes popular all over the world; Zuckerberg earned a lot of money and looses his only friend “Eduardo Severin”, an important protagonist who was played by Andrew Garfield. Also his former best friend is suing him for decepton. Through the whole process Zuckerberg stays very ironic, and gives clever answers whih sometimes are rude and inproper, the reason is that he just does not see his fault. 

In my opinion the film shows the story of Facebook in a good and interesting way, there are no long discussions about difficult computer codes, which I expected at first.

The film has a very rare story and it is nice to see how something like this can get out of hand. When you have success, everybody wants a piece of it and i think this is mentioned well.

It is not my favorite movie, but I liked the story and I liked the fact that this was not the typical “tearjerker”-movie.

I would recommend it to people, who are interested in Facebook and its history.