Everybody loves Facebook, right? (Not that anyone really uses it anymore, but whatever they own instagram it’s kinda the same thing) It allows us a place to connect with out friends and family and perhaps even people we haven’t seen (for better or worse) in a long time. It’s truly a groundbreaking idea that was designed by a social butterfly and mastermind who has the best intentions of keeping us all connected, and defiantly has no shady past or underlying problems, right? Ok so maybe a litte bit of that is wrong.

David Fincher’s The Social Network is a biopic revealing the shady start up of the worlds most popular and successful Social Networking site. It follows the story of everybody’s favorite human-robot, Mark Zuckerberg, and his founding of the company from his Harvard dorm room… and the two lawsuits that followed it a few years later While the story was excellent, you can certainly feel some parts where the writer added to it for dramatic purposes. To start, the story seems to be that Mark founded facebook (originally face mash) because he was obsessed with the girl that broke with him. However, I didn’t really believe this was historically accurate, so I looked it up and it turns out Mark’s current wife he met his sophomore year of college, which is when this film takes place, so that drew me out of the film a little.

Despite that, this film’s quality surprised me. Usually biopics seem uninteresting to me, but I think what I enjoyed about this film is that it almost didn’t feel like a biopic. I knew the characters were all real people, however they were presented in a more cinematically interesting way than most biopics. The performances of the actors, such as Jesse Eisenberg as Mark were superb, even if Zucc is displayed a little too evil and sociopathic at times. I also enjoy the cutting between the court room and flashes to the past, meaning the editing of the film made it very well paced and easy to understand and very interesting.

Despite my gripes with the historically accuracy at times, which drew me out of the story a bit, the Social Network is a fantastic film. The film reveals some of the gritty reality in the founding of Facebook. However, despite this I feel like some of the film takes dramatic liberties too far which can distort reality. For this reason, I think it may have been better to fictionalize characters and make them based of this Facebook case.

So, I guess nobody expected a global virus pandemic, but here we are. This is certainly a rough time for everybody, however I supposed you always need to look on the bright side of things. If anything, now is an opportune time to watch any films of television series that you want and just didn’t have the time to before. I personally, have been exploring Netflix and Hulu attempting to find something interesting, however I think I’ve looked through every films on the platforms at this point (i’m picky I suppose).

It’s also a good time to bring up how many movies have been pushed back thanks to coronavirus concerns. Huge films like Black Widow and No Time to Die have been delayed until later, either because of fear of spreading the virus or because they were forced to because the theaters are closed (perhaps the sad truth). It should be an interesting Oscars season next year, as so far Sonic is the front runner for best picture (name another film that released). Jokes aside, I hope this ends soon so we can go back to our movie theater going experiences, no matter how painful some of them may be.

If anything, I’ll be taking this time to watch as many films as I can and of course reviewing them here. I suggest it’s a good time to develop or polish any hobbies you may have.