Review of The Social Network (2010) by Valentin G — 11 Jul 2015

We live in a world where social networks are the biggest point of care for the population in different countries, the most famous of these since 2003 is "Facebook", some years ago the idea of a movie about this website was boring and a little complex to represent.

At the end of 2008 the writter (theater and cinema) and producer Aaron Sorkin announced that he had been writting an adaptation of the book "The Accidental Billionaires" by Ben Mezrich. After a few months the project was realized and ready to begin filming.

The Social Network is the story about how in 2003, a 19-year-old Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg, with the help of Eduardo Saverin, Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz created a website called "thefacebook", where the people could made a personal profile to contact with other people. Also the film show us the personal feelings of the protagonists respect to the great change in their lives and the judgment in 2004 between Zuckerberg, Saverin and the Winklevoss brothers.

The director David Fincher is extraordinary, perhaps his best work so far, he is the man in charge here and knows how to make everything look good. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross were the composers and they made the right music, I think is the best original score of 2010.

Jesse Eisenberg as Zuckerberg is excellent, demonstrating us that knows how to deal with a protagonist serious role, the rising star Andrew Garfield as Saverin is very good too but not better than the before mentioned, and the rest of the cast is just ok, Justin Timberlake stands out for being convincing in his character of Sean Parker or Roney Mara with just a few minutes on screen show us that she is a good actress.

The cinematography by Jeff Cronenweth and the edition by Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall are perfect in every way, the viewer can notice it from the first minute of the picture.

I can't say anything bad about the film, it's just awesome. The fist time I saw it I didn't found very good, but then I started to appreciate it. Thanks to David Fincher everyday, for his contribution to the cinema.