The Social Network

The movie “The Social Network” was very interesting. I didn’t have much of an idea of what to expect when I went to see it, and I was very happily surprised. Right after to movie I wanted to go research everything about Mark Zuckerberg and the whole story of Facebook to see how truthful the movie was. 

The movie makes him seems like a complete asshole. Without knowledge besides the movie, it’s easy to see him as a completely arrogant ass who would do anything to benefit himself. However, I feel like he did what he did for the sole benefit of just creating and being able to share those creations with others. Throughout the whole movie it becomes clear that his idea of Facebook was not to make a profit. While it is worth billions now, that didn’t seem to be his intention when he started it. 

I feel like what Mark Zuckerberg did in his creation of Facebook was amazing and it benefits a lot of people now. However, like in the movie, he did completely back stab his best friend who helped him produce the site. I guess it’s just really easy to get caught up in such a large creation, however, that made it hard to see him as anything but an asshole. Most things that Mark Zuckerberg did point him out as a jerk, like how he stole the idea of an online site like Facebook from the Winklevoss twins; but somehow I feel like he just wanted to create something amazing that people could benefit from; which he clearly succeeded in. The movie shows him in a very negative light, but I think he just got caught up in the magnified moment and he was so passionate about his creation that he forgot how to act like a good person on the way. In the end, however, he made things right by giving a percent of the profit to the Winklevoss twins and his best friend, Eduardo Saverin. What he did payed off in the end and he achieved his goal. Also, they are all making tons of money, so it worked out for all of them. 

However, I have to say that Justin Timberlake’s character in the movie, Sean Parker, drove me crazy. I don’t know if the movie just portrayed him as that way or if he really is that way, but he seemed to be kinda corrupting Mark Zuckerberg in order to benefit himself and to get rid of Eduardo Saverin. He was just too manipulative and I wanted Mark Zuckerberg to realize that Sean Parker was just manipulating him so he could get his money and fame. 

Also, as a side note: The Winklevoss twins in the movie are played by two unrelated people and they just edited the face of one of them over the other’s... I thought that was weird, but super cool!!

Overall, I would definitely recommend the movie to anyone. Everyone uses Facebook so it’s cool to learn how is came about. Were able to relate to it since we know what it is and this is all very recent.  With the movie they were able to make such a seemingly boring thing into something really exciting. So you should definitely go see it!