Must See Movie...

Great Film overall

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, but is later sued by two brothers who claimed he stole their idea, and the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business. David Fincher could pretty much take every good actor and turn him into a total boredom of a character and a movie plus the best thing about the movie was probably the famous meme that we see around the internet and speaking of that? This movie is exactly that, the silly and fumb facebook movie of Fincher. (3/10)

I really really love this film. This film is very special to me. This made me think how a software can change the world, and how about social network, how about friendship and everything. So it help me think about idea to create software and build one for me, a product called TheDevBand.

The screenplay from Aaron Sorkin really makes this film. It makes what could have been a boring concept thrilling and absorbing. The dialogue is so visceral and quick-fire that I never lost interest despite not knowing all the jargon being used. David Fincher's direction is focused which really helps keep the narrative flowing. I never found myself bored because of the excellent combination of writing and direction. Jesse Eisenburg's performance as Mark Zuckerberg is thrilling as he plays what is almost an insufferable genius to perfection, whilst his performance is grounded by the excellent Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin, the co-founder of Facebook. No character is truly moral, all working with their own agendas and interests which creates realistic conflict. When Saverin confronts Zuckerberg about his shares in the company being diluted it ends up being one of the best scenes in the film because of this.There also must be a mention to Justin Timberlake's portrayal of Sean Parker, who is the closest thing to an antagonist in the film, with how he clashes with Saverin and in effect forces him out of Facebook. The only issues I had with the film was when it cut back to the lawsuit going on in the present day, as I felt it disrupted the pace of the narrative somewhat, and that the ending seemed a little abrupt.I know the subject matter has probably been somewhat glamourised to make the narrative more entertaining, but it certainly succeeds there.

I remember sitting in a well-lit, spacious classroom talking to my friend who has long, voluminous beautiful hair, and she was telling about seeing this movie in Dubai and saying that it filled her with passion for coding, that Mark & co are so smart, that she wishes we were like them. We were IT majors.It must have been in 2010 or 2011, as she graduated in 2012, and I did in 2013. Those years I hardly watched any movies, as I was too obsessed with TV shows. I watched hundreds of them, mastering English and failing my classes in the meantime.Now, in December of 2017, I am getting slowly back to my roots, watching movies and reading articles, albeit very slowly and sporadically. It's weird, if I had watched this movie earlier, I'd probably have given it 10 stars, because it was gripping, exciting and aesthetically pleasing. But I am too deep in the tumblr and twitter culture now that I couldn't ignore how glaring the lack of good representation of women was in this film. They were either crazy, unimportant, or a prize that was awarded for anyone who got ahead.