A Movie Review: Social Network

Social Network. So who knows how accurate Social Network is. Right off the bat, I've read that Erica Albright (Rooney Mara) is a fictional character -- used to represent Mark Zuckerberg's (Jesse Eisenberg) social short-falls. But in any biographical portrayal, there has to be some truth. Mark Zuckerberg is a brilliant individual, but I suspect that seldom does one become successful all on one's own. As for Harvard, one has to come to the conclusion that students there are a) just like the rest of us in how they go through life, but b) are also much smarter than the rest of us.

But what did I think of the movie? Brilliant. Loved it. Who cares if the whole thing is fiction. If it was just a fictional story made out of the mind of a Hollywood writer, you'd still be drawn into it. You get the Harvard students and their brilliant minds and the backdrop of their sexual filled party atmosphere. You see the tensions brought up as folks feel that they were betrayed and/or back stabbed. There is the creative genius who probably feels justified in taking total credit for an idea, because he knows that when it comes down to it he's the one who created it -- even though perhaps the formulation of the concept was a shared one. This movie had my full and undivided attention.