MYST 1

I watched the movie "The Social Network" which is an American drama film directed by David Pincher. The main character is Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg, played by Jesse Eisenberg. Mark's best friend, Eduardo Saverin, played by Andrew Grafield, is the next biggest character. The movie starts off with Mark having dinner with his girlfriend. This is where we are introduced to Mark's ego and bad attitude. They get into a fight and she breaks up with him and calls him an asshole. Calling him an asshole is a key part because that is what set Zuckerberg off to start creating his project. He goes home too his dorm and is very drunk. He starts blogging about his ex-girlfirend and how she is an awful human being and so on. He then sparks the idea to create a rating website. Its where two pictures of girls on campus go side by side and you can pick who is hotter. Obviously, it was a big hit with the boy students, but it really pissed off the girl students. Then the Winklevoss twins heard about Zuckerberg's rating website and how big of a hit it was, they wanted him to help them create their own website. The idea for the website was a dating website. That sparked Zuckerberg to create Facebook. His buddy Saverin helped with the financial situation while Zuckerberg did all the coding and appearance of the website. A key point that is in the movie is Mark never says thank you to Saverin. Saverin funded the whole website and once it was created Mark met a new partner. That new partner was Sean Parker, creator of Napster. Sean didn't like Saverin off the bat and devised a plan to screw him over in the contract of Facebook. In the end Saverin gets screwed and sues Zuckerberg for everything he has. The ending scene is the hearing and lets everyone know what the resolution of the case was.


A key component in the movie that really stands out to me is how Zuckerberg doesn't say thank you ever. Throughout the movie Saverin is expecting a thank you or any kind of acknowledgement that he is paying for everything. There are scenes where Saverin pays a big amount and sits there waiting for a thank you and Zuckerberg just goes back to work and doesn't acknowledge him. Zuckerberg is an asshole throughout the whole film. that brings us back to the first scene of the movie where him and his girlfriend break up and she tells him "...your going to go through life thinking girls don't like you because your nerdy when in reality its because your an asshole." He doesn't believe it, but everyone who has seen the movie would say he is one. By him being one thats what caused the major lawsuit between him and Saverin.


In the end I really liked this movie. I can safely say this is one of my favorite movie. I really love the camera work. The lighting in the movie is usually darker and that is to show that this is a darker movie. There are sad and intense parts throughout the whole movie. When Zuckerberg is on screen and talking he is usually in the darkest spot to show that he has some evil in him. The plot is really easy to follow and it is fun to watch. The plot is very suspenseful and I recommend this movie to people who like darker and more suspenseful movies. I give this move an 8.5/10.