The Social Network (2010)
Directed by David Fincher
In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programmer Mark Zuckerberg begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social network known as Facebook. Six years later, Mark is one of the youngest billionaires ever, but his unprecedented success leads to both personal and legal complications when he ends up on the receiving end of two lawsuits, one involving his former friend.
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What critics say influenced The Social Network
The contemporary films that The Social Network most closely recalls are Shattered Glass (2003)the true story of another inscrutable, morally mercurial twentysomething upstartand Michael Manns The Insider (1999).
In this regard, “The Social Network” shares creative DNA with a handful of classic, zeitgeist-savvy films like “Network” and “All the President’s Men,” as well as more recent fare such as “The Insider” and “Michael Clayton.”
And tell me Fincher's not having a laugh by goosing a competitive rowing sequence with the same musical strain of Grieg's "Peer Gynt" – here, given a doomy electronic treatment by scorers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – that the sad-eyed monster Peter Lorre once 'napped children to in Fritz Lang's M. Maybe it's a sly nod to the Pied Piper-like lure of Facebook, or maybe it's just an uptempo musical cue fitting for a corking-good action sequence (Fincher, alongside Michael Mann, is surely making some of the best-looking and formally invigorating digitally shot dramas today).
I'm not disposed to compare "The Social Network" to "Citizen Kane," as some critics have -- that's a way of subtly demeaning both films, and as Sorkin has said, the structure is closer to "All About Eve" or "12 Angry Men."
Rooney Mara -- who has the role of Lisbeth Salander in Fincher's remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2010) -- has verve as Erica.