The Social Network

Jakub Smutný commented on the video of user David Fincher: “Good job, mate.” This comment was shared by 240 users of Rotten Tomatoes. David Fincher joined the group "Waiting for the Oscar." Aaron Sorkin became a fan of the page "AwEsOme StORies." User Lucinka Mišiczka Šmudlinková wrote on the wall of user The Social Network: “I didn’t like it at all, very boring, but it has the actor of Zombieland :-*.” Jakub Smutný joined the group “People against teenagers in cinemas”. David Fincher wrote a message on the wall of user Mark Zuckeberg: "Sry, bro." User Film Fans is friends with David Fincher, Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Timberlake. You and Film Fans have 3 friends in common. Jakub Smutný is attending the event “Other screening.” I like this. Share on Facebook. (2010-10-31)

A nice 10 year old film from David Fincher about the creation of Facebook. I don't even know why I put if off for so long. Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake are excellent, the idea is timely and offers a nice insight into the life of a young Mark Zuckerberg. For a biopic, the film is both gripping and quite suspenseful, and above all very interesting. Story*****, Action>No, Humor>No, Violence>No, Entertainment****, Music***, Visuals****, Atmosphere****, Suspense****. 8/10. (2020-09-25)

Where other directors test their own limits, David Fincher peacefully paints a picture that defines perfection. The Social Network won’t get to you with details, but with its ability to speak to the audience with such a banal story that could, on a smaller scale of course, be happening at every other university right now. This is Fincher’s most modest film in terms of form, but his densest in terms of content, and its most powerful moment is a shot of the protagonist, who has gained and lost everything at the same time. It’s a conversation movie, portraying relationships in university dorms, that doesn’t celebrate the American dream of the new millennium but shows the price that one has to pay for it. Without any sentiment or defense of positive values – what we see here is rather the absence of those. The reason that Fincher conceived the race on water the way he did is because any other filmmaker in his place wouldn’t even have thought of it. The film is a commercial move on the studio’s part (a low budget plus Facebook’s popularity equals certain profit), but thanks to the filmmaking quality, it’s also an exemplary character study, valuable as a record of the period and the people living in it, which makes it the biggest cultural and film event since United 93. The Social Network is the most deserving candidate for the (nonexistent) Academy Award for the best independent film (like Juno, Sideways, etc.) to come along in many years. (2010-11-06)

Eleven years have passed, and with it Fincher's visual exhibitionism, and here is a film that assaults the senses in the same way that Fight Club once did. The generational thinking that it's no longer about breaking out of the system, but being part of it is "awfully cool." I’m not a nerd, nor do I understand IT, but Zuckerberg does. Like. (2010-11-09)

The movie was thoughtful and "brilliantly simple" just like Facebook itself. Throughout the movie, I almost believed I was watching reality and that Facebook was being created right before my eyes. In short, well thought out to the smallest detail. There's no doubt that Fincher succeeded. But I personally was surprised by the performance of Justin Timberlake, who I had not considered an actor until now... 4.5 stars. (2011-06-10)