![]() He's an aggressive nerd bent on world domination. Sorkin's swift hand gives Eisenberg the sniveling, slightly sinister tone of a genius who speaks faster than he thinks and thinks at the speed of light. A dead ringer for the mop-haired mogul, Eisenberg inhabits the role of a status-hungry geek-turned-larger-than-life billionaire to perfection. Unlike that ocean liner, this ship sails on strong.Īs Zuckerberg, Jesse Eisenberg offers up a must-see performance. ![]() But as James Cameron did with "Titanic," director David Fincher ("Fight Club") and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin ("The West Wing") make the movie riveting despite the fact that most people know what happens in the end. ![]() It is a movie about people and the great lengths to which they go in their quest for power.Īnyone who has Googled Facebook knows the story: High achieving Harvard undergrad Mark Zuckerberg founds a game-changing social networking site, gets absurdly rich, gets sued. "The Social Network" is not simply a movie about a Web site. There's backstabbing and betrayal, there's tragedy and triumph. ![]() 1, is an epic tour de force about the people behind the site that defines our time. " The Social Network," which premieres tonight at the New York Film Festival and opens nationwide Oct. How riveting could a film about a Web site whose features include a nagging "People You May Know" window and a game based on buying fake farm animals be? ![]() 24, 2010 — - I'll admit it: I initially scoffed at the idea of a Facebook movie. ![]()
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