The Social Network

I saw The Social Network a week ago and I've been thinking about it since I saw it. How true is it? I know part of is true becaue Eduardo Saverin got a huge payout from Facebook AND was ordered not to discuss it. Sean Parker of Napster had a big article in Vanity Fair a month or two ago but he didn't really discuss Mark Zuckerberg or Facebook, it was much more about him and the way he's "changed the world three or four times". And of Zuckerberg himself? Well, Facebook has put out a disclaimer or two but the man himself hasn't said much and you can't really blame him-he'd only end up sounding defensive. The movie though, is pretty good. Entertaining? Yes, and well-written as well. And while I've never liked Jesse Eisenberg, he does a great job in the movie of playing a semi-social misfit who created a website (with a little help) and became a billionaire. Andrew Garfield (the new Spiderman) was also very good as Zuckerberg's best friend who ends up getting screwed by him. And Justin Timberlake is maybe not-great as Sean parker, but he has so much charisma (which the part really needed) that it carries him through the rough spots.
What I really liked about this movie was it's sense of nuance. And by that I mean no one good or evil-and everyone has a different perspective. Did Zuckerberg steal the idea from the Winklevoss twins? Yes, but as Larry Sumners says in the movie "Go create something else". Perhaps only Zuckerberg could have taken their idea and ran with it as far as he has. Does that make him bad or creative? And Eduardo got screwed-does that make him a fall guy or just someone who was not paying attention and who though his best friend would never do something like that to him? It's your call. My only real issue with this movie is that the women in it are either models/whores/interns or crazy people. There are two in this movie who are not like that: Rooney Mara who spends the first ten minutes of the movie being insulted by Zuckerberg and Rashida Jones who tells Zuckerberg at the end that he's not a bad person. The rest are "hot girl in club" or Sorority girl" or "hot intern" or crazy girlfriend". Is that really the best they could do? It was a little disappointing that that was it, but it was still a great movie-and I'd like to give a shout-out to the special effects team because I don't know how they did it-having one guy play the Winklevoss twins and digitally inserting his facial expressions onto the body-double. That was very impressive.
And I can see why Rooney Mara got the part in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo though-and if this had been a different sort of movie, she would have kicked Zuckerberg's butt.