Arriving in Malaysia on 11th November, this movie is already making waves in both the social media and the entertainment world. According to Boxofficemojo.com, The Social Network, directed by David Fincher, screenplay by Aaron Sorkin, and based upon the book “The Accidental Billionaires” by Ben Mezrich, debuted in US, ranking No.1 in the weekend box office from Oct 1-3, 2010 with a gross of US$22,445,653.
The movie has been critically acclaimed by several parties in the US. Quoting Lou Lumenick, New York Post, “A truly great movie. Uncommonly perceptive, razor-sharp, lightning fast. Brilliant. Hilarious. A timeless and compelling story that speaks volumes about the way we live. It’s a bravura piece of filmmaking.”
Synopsis
One drunken night in October of 2003, having just broken up with his girlfriend, Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg), the brilliant Harvard student who conceived a website that seemed to redefine our social fabric overnight, hacks into his university’s computers to create a site that forms a database of all the women on campus, then lines up two pictures next to each other and asks the user to choose which is “hotter.” He calls the site Facemash, and it instantly goes viral, crashing the entire Harvard system and generating campus-wide controversy over the site’s purported misogyny, and charges that Mark, in creating Facemash, intentionally breached security, violated copyrights and violated individual privacy.
Yet in that moment, the underlying framework for Facebook is born. Shortly after, Mark launches thefacebook.com, which will spread like wildfire from one screen to the next across Harvard, through the Ivy League to Silicon Valley, and then literally to the entire world.
But in the chaos of creation comes passionate conflict – about how it all went down, and who deserves recognition for what is clearly developing into one of the century’s signal ideas – conflicts that will divide friends and spur legal actions. The result is a drama rife with both creation and destruction; one that purposefully avoids a single point of view, but instead, by tracking duelling narratives, mirrors the clashing truths and constantly morphing social relationships that define our time.
Will you be watching this movie when it arrives in the cinemas?
