They all laughed at college nerd Mark Zuckerberg, whose idea for a social-networking site made him a billionaire. And they all laughed at the idea of a Facebook movie--except writer Aaron Sorkin and director David Fincher, merely two of the more extravagantly talented filmmakers around. Sorkin and Fincher's breathless picture, The Social Network, is a fast and witty creation myth about how Facebook grew from Zuckerberg's insecure geek-at-Harvard days into a phenomenon with 500 million users. Sorkin frames the movie around two lawsuits aimed at the lofty but brilliant... Zuckerberg (deftly played by Adventureland's Jesse Eisenberg): a claim that he stole the idea from Ivy League classmates, and a suit by his original, now slighted, business partner (Andrew Garfield). The movie follows a familiar rise-and-fall pattern, with temptation in the form of a sunny California Beelzebub (an expert Justin Timberlake as former Napster founder Sean Parker) and an increasingly tangled legal mess. Emphasising the legal morass gives Sorkin and Fincher a chance to explore how unsocial this social-networking business can be, although the irony seems a little facile. More damagingly, the film steers away from the prickly figure of Zuckerberg in the latter stages--and yet Zuckerberg presents the most intriguing personality in the movie, even if the movie takes pains to make us understand his shortcomings. Fincher's command of pacing and his eye for the clean spaces of Aughts-era America are bracing, and he can't resist the technical trickery involved in turning actor Armie Hammer into privileged Harvard twins (Hammer is letter-perfect). Even with its flaws, The Social Network is a galloping piece of entertainment, a smart ride with smart peopleĀ who sometimes do dumb things. --Robert Horton [show more]
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray and will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play. David Fincher's The Social Network is the stunning tale of a new breed of cultural insurgent: a punk genius who sparked a revolution and changed the face of human interaction for a generation, and perhaps forever. Shot through with emotional brutality and unexpected humour, this superbly crafted film chronicles the formation of Facebook and the battles over ownership that followed upon the website's unfathomable success. With a complex, incisive screenplay by Aaron Sorkin and a brilliant cast including Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake, The Social Network bears witness to the birth of an idea that rewove the fabric of society even as it unravelled the friendship of its creators. Actors Justin Timberlake, Jesse Eisenberg, Rashida Jones, Malese Jow, Andrew Garfield, Brenda Song, Joseph Mazzello, Rooney Mara & Marcella Lentz-Pope Director David Fincher Certificate 12 years and over Languages English - Dolby Digital (5.1) Additional Languages English Audio Descriptive; French Subtitles English; English for the hearing impaired; Arabic; Danish; Dutch; Finnish; French; Hindi; Norwegian; Swedish
Directed by David Fincher, this award-winning drama is based on the story of the creation of Facebook. Jesse Eisenberg plays Mark Zuckerberg who, in 2003, developed the social networking site while he was an undergraduate at Harvard. Six years later Zuckerberg is a millionaire but his success is proving to be problematic to his personal life and he finds himself undergoing multiple legal battles. Justin Timberlake also stars as Sean Parker, the co-founder of Napster. The film won three Golden Globe awards, three Academy Awards and Fincher won the 2011 BAFTA for Achievement in Direction.
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