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You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an asshole.

# Review

This story retells the story of Mark Zuckerberg’s founding of Facebook. It follows him through his college years at Harvard, where Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) starts Thefacebook with the help of his best friend Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield). It then follows Zuckerberg as he moves to Palo Alto and scales Facebook with the help of Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake).

The film feels like a modern-day Shakespearean drama, filled with betrayals and back stabbings fueled by ambition and greed. The film explores allegations of intellectual theft levered against Zuckerberg by the Winklevoss twins (Armie Hammer) and Divya Narendra (Max Minghella), as well as the lawsuit by Saverin against Zuckerberg for unfair share dilution. Eisenberg played an intelligent and snarky Zuckerberg. At the beginning Zuckerberg feels almost pathetic, as he’s socially awkward and desperately trying to fit in. When Zuckerberg finally fits in, however, his behaviour turns from something people sympathize to something that is caustic and Machiavellian. Saverin plays a friend who is heartbroken at having been betrayed, Hammer’s Winklevoss twins and Minghella’s Narendra are vengeful, while Timberlake plays a loose cannon Parker.

Sorkin’s screenplay is very tight and the cinematography and sound design feel very elegant. The entire film is very polished and the pacing is very engaging. The film explores certain themes such as social relationships both in university and online.

# Conclusion

A very polished film about one telling of the Facebook founding story.

# Overall rating: 8.0

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