The Social Network : A review

Today I watched the hit movie ‘The Social Network’ and I must say that the movie was quite touching. The movie was about how Facebook came to be what it is today and two best friends, Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) and Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield) who were studying in Harvard University. Zuckerberg was portrayed as a misunderstood and brilliant computer nerd who in the beginning of the movie created Facebook as a vengeful mean to get back at his girlfriend but ends up making a website worth billions. Zuckerberg also gets sued for ‘stealing’ the Facebook idea by three Harvard students. In the movie Saverin finances the website and is behind Zuckerberg every step of the way but Saverin gets cut out of the deal because Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake) poisons Zuckerberg against Saverin. Sean Parker was portrayed in the movie as a cunning and conniving young entrepreneur whose eyes were set on Facebook and cutting out Saverin from the equation but in the end Zuckerberg does realize his mistake and gives Saverin his due shares of the company.

Personally what I liked about the movie was Zuckerberg’s character which was portrayed fantastically by Jesse Eisenberg. I could understand his loneliness and paranoia about trusting people. It was that lack of trust that brought on the rift between him and Saverin in the first place. Sean Parker was just someone who voiced those thoughts. The saying on the cover of the movie hits the mark and is quite chilling.