Eye Candy #496 - "The Social Network"

The Social Network: The brief life and times (to-date) of Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook with his three Harvard roommates, and their rise from Harvard-bound hackers to hundred-millionaires (now billionaires), running the largest social interaction tool in the history of the planet.  Jesse Eisenberg is Zuckerberg.  Usually his schtick comes across as a poor man’s Michael Cera, but here he in his element, playing Zuckerberg with an Aspergers-like intensity, driven to succeed despite the consequences and who he might hurt in the process.  Andrew Garfield plays Eduardo Saverin, co-founder of FB, with whom Zuckerberg has a rancorous parting that frames the entire film.  Garfield is equally as good as Eisenberg, like a battle of brain versus soul.  Justin Timberlake is here in support, as Sean Parker, rock-star-programmer slash entrepreneur who was the first President of Facebook, in addition to helping launch Napster.  The dialogue in Aaron Sorkins’ script is SHARP.  There are scripts that dream of using words as deftly as Sorkin has here.  I was also pleasantly surprised by Trent Reznor’s soundtrack.  A very watchable movie, built more for drama than reality (it has to be that way; there is nothing inherently film-sexy about watching people right code).  I kept meaning to turn it off, to finish it the next day, but I stayed through its entirety.  I’ve always liked director David Fincher, but he got me to sit through a two-hour film about the creation of a website.  Fairly certain this film will be lost on anyone without a Facebook profile.   Woodchuck sez, “Check it out.”