The Social Network

A couple of weeks ago I went with some friends to see David Finchers new film "The social network". My friends thought a film about facebook had to be boring, but I guess they weren't familiar with Fincher. In my opinion, he can make any filmscenario interesting.
But i must admit even I wondered how he was going to make this movie about facebook. Not because I doubtet him as a director, but because it seemed so far away from his style. We're used to Finchers dark and often very clever movies, could a film about facebook really be made in David Fincher-way? The answer is yes! It definitely can!
This movie is a typical Fincher. It's all in the music, plot and directing. And I absolutely loved it!
The movie is written by Aaron Sorkin. And I have o say, he wrote a lot! The script must have been long as hell.
Anyways the movie focuses on the two bestfriends Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) and Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield). Mark is a computergenius and Eduardo is studying economics. So Mark gets the idea of a website from to big identical twins, all of these characters are attending Harvard. Later on Mark takes the idea he gets from the twins and develop it into ´"TheFacebook", when he's really supposed to be helping the twins with their website. Eduardo is helping Mark to finance the whole thing, and so they start their journey.
Later on in the film they meet Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake) to ask him whether they should put up ads on their website. Sean is everything Eduardo is not, and Mark begins to look up to Sean. After this the intrigues begin!
From the beginning of the movie we see Mark and Eduardo sitting in court. Edurdo as victim. We immediately realise that something went wrong on the way til the point of them two sitting there. These time jumps goes on in the entire film and it is a very clever way to build up the excitement until the big turningpoint where we get to know what happened, what went wrong, with the two bestfriends.
As I said, the movie has Fincher written all over it. The music is absolutely perfection and the way the structure of the movie as well.
Another thing that impressed me was Aaron Sorkins script. We all know he can write, but I never knew he could be so funny. The script is simply amazing and very humoristic. Marks character is in particular very very funny.
Which brings me to the characters. Of course these characters are based on the real people who created facebook. But their personalities are just guesses and pure moviecharacters. But I think Sorkin did a great job with these characters. He succeds with making us see the story from everyone's perspective. It is truly hard to choose a side in this movie. Even though it might not seem that way at first, we later realise that both Mark, Sean and Eduardo are justified in their actions. The fact that the film succeds with this makes it so much more believeable and realistic. We don't have the typical good cop - bad cop situation.
And now, the actors. Jesse Eisenberg did a terrific job with Marks character. I can not think of an actor better suited for that role. And all the small detailes he brought! Like how he always puts his hands in his pocket on his hood when he speaks! Jesse really brought life into his character.
Andrew Garfield has been a favourite of mine for quite some time actually! He is always great and there's never a false note in anything Andrew does.
And Timberlake, who knew he could act?
So to sum up; Great movie, great structure, great script, great characters, great actors!
GREAT!

And as usual I cant wait to see what Fincher does next!