If I wear to say one word that defined our generation i would either say developed or Facebook. Yup, it seems strange, but Facebook compiles our entire lives (relationships, likes, dislikes, memories, pictures etc.) together in one place for the world to see. I frankly do not know what the world would be like without Facebook, or without the idea by the infamous Winkelvoss twins.
The Social Network shows the buildup of a website created by people who needed it themselves. Mark Zuckerberg, the current president of Facebook and founder, is portrayed by the neurotic Jessie Eisenberg who plays very well. The film shows Mark as a brilliant computer wiz at Harvard, where he gets an opportunity by the Winkelvoss twins (both played by actor Armie Hammer) to program a social networking site for the college campus. Mark goes a step ahead and actually creates the entire website himself. Along with his friend Eduardo (Andrew Garfield), the two take Facebook and the college interface by force. The movie winds through a set of lawsuits that happen to Mark by both Eduardo and the twins for using the Facebook for his profit.
Of course this is a brilliant character study of a person so mysterious and brilliant that half of the movie, we don't know any of his motives. It's brilliantly directed by David Fincher who gives the film some breathing room and thought for the plot, making it flow like a fast internet connection. Well written and great acting gives the film a unique quality of interest and entertainment that movies today don't have. This is how a great classic should be made, and it will go down in history as one of the best of this year. It clearly defined my generation and others with me truthfully: unlikeable even for Facebook.
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