The Social Network movie

The tale of the Facebook founding was told through David Fincher's eyes, in the big screen movie, “The Social Network”. Aaron Sorkin penned the screenplay, and the unlikely pairing of creative minds crafted a prescient and absorbing character drama. It utilized The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich, as a template.

The precision directing by Fincher and the cast's superb delivery of the dialogue written by Sorkin produced what most experts described as an excellent film. It is somewhat of a cautionary tale, and very pertinent in the times in which we live. Sean Parker, Napster founder, said this movie is about our time, and that it could apply to all of the networking sites, as well as Facebook.

The storyline was woven around the actors who play Mark Zuckerburg, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss and Eduardo Saverin, and their problems and issues over the ownership and origins of Facebook. During those pivotal moments, the storyline detailed Facebook's formation, which came from Zuckerberg's hacking into the servers at Harvard, to build a campus “Hot or Not” site pertaining to female students. The notoriety followed the act and Zuckerberg was tapped to make a networking site exclusively for Harvard alums and students. Rather, Zuckerberg improved on his idea, and refined the site, and created Facebook, with Saverin.

Facebook became a phenomenon on-campus, with “Facebook me” heard as a campus buzz-phrase. It expanded into the campuses of other universities before it hit the outside world. The friends' popularity surged, but their friendship did not. Eduardo wanted to monetize the site, and Zuckerberg objected to that. He felt that they would lose their status and credibility if they decided to make money from the site. Throughout the storyline, legal action was also threatened from the Winklevoss twins.

Fincher melded The Social Network into an interesting study of how money and power can bring peril, changing Zuckerberg from a maladjusted student into a young man who was later governed by greed, obsession and entitlement. The film began and ended with scenes between he and Erica Albright, whom he pined for. She told him first that people would dislike him for being something other than a nerd. In the last scene, they were no longer even facing each other. So, Zuckerberg had and has, at the same time, everything but nothing. He was named the world's youngest billionaire, but he actually became a victim of his monster, Facebook.