Directed by:
David FincherScreenplay:
Aaron SorkinCinematography:
Jeff CronenwethCast:
Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield, Brenda Song, Rooney Mara, Max Minghella, Armie Hammer, Joseph Mazzello, Melise, Natalina Maggio (more)VOD (4)
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On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) 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. (official distributor synopsis)
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A masterpiece that matures with each viewing. Brilliantly directed, inventively scored by Reznor, perfectly edited, with flawless casting. First of all – unknown to me until now – Andrew Garfield impressed me with his masterful performance (great hope for the next Spider-Man), but the slightly autistic talented asocial Jesse Eisenberg is not far behind him, I believe that in both cases Oscar nominations at least are certain. Every era had a significant film that characterised it, went to the heart of its essence and became timeless, and Fincher's work, in these times of the information technology boom and the fearless entrepreneurship of the young generation, is such a film.
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A nice 10 year old film from David Fincher about the creation of Facebook. I don't even know why I put if off for so long. Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake are excellent, the idea is timely and offers a nice insight into the life of a young Mark Zuckerberg. For a biopic, the film is both gripping and quite suspenseful, and above all very interesting. Story*****, Action>No, Humor>No, Violence>No, Entertainment****, Music***, Visuals****, Atmosphere****, Suspense****. 8/10.
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The Social Network is not a film about Facebook, the internet, or social networks, and it is not even, in the true sense of the word, a biography of the founder of the Facebook company. It is a film about the desire for excellence, about ruthless ambition, where excess baggage is discarded on the way to success, and friends and loves are lost. It is a film about entrepreneurs who can build an empire out of nothing and who must possess qualities that would exclude them from mainstream society. Success, however, can silence the critics. And that's probably how it goes with big projects. A similar film could be made about Ford or Rockefeller. At the end of that journey, the hero is celebrated and favored, yet lonely and sadly clicking through his Facebook profile, hoping to regain a piece of his past. From a filmmaker's point of view, it is a brilliant film where every detail, from editing and camera work to the music, reveals one of the best directors of our time. It's not a popcorn flick, but more of a film for connoisseurs. Overall impression: 90%.
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Where other directors test their own limits, David Fincher peacefully paints a picture that defines perfection. The Social Network won’t get to you with details, but with its ability to speak to the audience with such a banal story that could, on a smaller scale of course, be happening at every other university right now. This is Fincher’s most modest film in terms of form, but his densest in terms of content, and its most powerful moment is a shot of the protagonist, who has gained and lost everything at the same time. It’s a conversation movie, portraying relationships in university dorms, that doesn’t celebrate the American dream of the new millennium but shows the price that one has to pay for it. Without any sentiment or defense of positive values – what we see here is rather the absence of those. The reason that Fincher conceived the race on water the way he did is because any other filmmaker in his place wouldn’t even have thought of it. The film is a commercial move on the studio’s part (a low budget plus Facebook’s popularity equals certain profit), but thanks to the filmmaking quality, it’s also an exemplary character study, valuable as a record of the period and the people living in it, which makes it the biggest cultural and film event since United 93. The Social Network is the most deserving candidate for the (nonexistent) Academy Award for the best independent film (like Juno, Sideways, etc.) to come along in many years.
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Eleven years have passed, and with it Fincher's visual exhibitionism, and here is a film that assaults the senses in the same way that Fight Club once did. The generational thinking that it's no longer about breaking out of the system, but being part of it is "awfully cool." I’m not a nerd, nor do I understand IT, but Zuckerberg does. Like.
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