Anyone who is a user of facebook must go and see this film.
It tells the story of Mark Zuckerberg the computer nerd founder who came up with the idea of facebook and how he faced legal battles with his peers who accused him of stealing their idea. Jesse Eisenberg is suitably fantastic at playing a near autistic Mark; he is genius and almost callous at the same time to the extent that you can’t help but admire him. The script was fast and slick. Essentially it had to make a story based on banal hours of writing internet code into something watchable and entertaining. It was. Justin Timberlake played the flash Sean Parker (inventor of Napster) well. The character’s bravado and confidence sucked Mark in yet he still showed an element of vulnerability.
And the film also introduced me to my new favourite thing: Armie Hammer who played the both of Winklevoss brothers. Hot
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The bit of the film I appreciated most was the final scene. Mark stares at his ex girlfriend’s profile page. This is the girl who in the beginning scene understandably broke up with him for his infuriating behaviour, causing him to come up with the nascent concept of facebook; FaceSmash. The film ends with him adding her as a friend and then repeatedly refreshing the page to see if she accepts. An agonising wait. The context may have been different, but I can’t deny that I’ve been guilty of that in the past.
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