You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.

With his most recent work David Fincher explores the world’s most popular social networking site Facebook. In this internet age we live in it’s difficult to remember a time before Facebook. A time before you would check your account every 10 minutes for updates. Before you would untag yourself in certain pictures, crop people out of them or make somewhat “ambiguous” status updates that indirectly refer to someone else. Before you would tell someone to just “Facebook me” or “just add me on Facebook.” Yes, it’s hard to believe that Facebook is still quite a new phenomenon, and the film The Social Network explores how a Harvard student changed the world and guaranteed himself a place in history. When I first heard the rumors of a Facebook movie I was quick to laugh off what I assumed would be some lame teen comedy with no substance. The idea itself was just so absurd, much like someone trying to make a film about Twitter or even MySpace. It wasn’t until I found out that David Fincher was signed on as the director that my interest began to rise. Given his previous works I was sure he wouldn’t disappoint. After seeing the film my fears were laid to rest as once again Fincher has lead the audience through an emotional rollercoaster filled with highs and lows. A lot of credit also has to be given to Aaron Sorkin for penning a well crafted script that really keeps the viewer riveted throughout the entire film. Also, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross deserve a lot of credit for creating the hauntingly yet beautifully dark ambient score to the film. This matched up perfectly with Fincher’s style of using washed out colours and low lighting in scenes, similar to Fight Club. The film also had a great performance by the cast, including a solid Jesse Eisenberg. While I still feel he could use some improvement in his acting, The Social Network shows he is ready to break free from being compared to Michael Cera. However, the best performance was given by Andrew Garfield playing Eduardo Saverin, the co-creator of Facebook. I felt that he really connected with the character and portrayed a naive innocence towards the world that would be hard to top. I am very excited to see how he plays Peter Parker in the upcoming Spiderman reboot. The Social Network takes the viewer on a journey involving trust, betrayal, greed, sacrifice, isolation, loneliness and wanting to belong. The film runs about 2 hours and 30 minutes and my only real complaint was that it seemed rushed. Hopefully there will be a director’s cut released on DVD that will flush out some more of the story. Well it’s been about 20 minutes since I last checked my Facebook and I can already feel the itch coming on, so while I check my Facebook you go see the movie. Then update your status about it.