The Social Network
In 2010, two monoliths of film came together to make something that still resonates to this day. You have Aaron Sorkin dialogue sitting alongside the directorial talent of David Fincher. It depicts the loneliness and rather pathetic heart of what has become the globally domineering social media boom, and it’s still relevant even 12 years later.
The movie might be even more profound due to how its cast includes actors that often make me want to throw a remote through the screen, yet it all works. Jesse Eisenburg is pitch perfect as the self-defeating, personally inept Mark Zuckerberg, while Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake seem form fitted as Zuckerberg’s friend Eduardo Saverin and Napster founder Sean Parker, respectively.
What makes this movie special, beyond a solid script and pacing, is how it doesn’t focus on the metrics of Facebook’s rise but instead focuses on the heart of obsession with how others think about people as the main driving force behind Facebook’s rise.
