#152: The Social Network, Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir

Genre: Drame/Drama

Annee/Year: 2010

Format: Blu Ray


The Social Network. Probably one of the very significant movie of the year. Brought to us by director David Fincher who brought us also The curious case of Benjamin Button, The fight Club, Se7en and Alien 3. David has already made his mark before and he reiterates with a very solid film. At first i thought this would be a very light film to pat all the internet geeks on their backs; but this is a very tough movie, very dense (in the sense that it has a lot of fast paced dialog) and a multi layered film which can be analysed on several levels.


This is not a movie for the casual viewer. It will require you some work to understand it's full richness. The movie can be taken on the level of a class struggle based in harvard setting. It can also be taken as a criticism of the internet/computer generation and their lack of human touch.


The film employs an excellent cast: Jesse Eisenberg plays the role of Mark Zuckerberg (oscar contender?) thereal life storyof the kid who started facebook and became 10X billionaire. Andrew Garfield plays beautifully the role of his right hand man: Eduardo Saverin.

Justin Timberlake plays the role of the guy we like to hate: Sean Parker the founder of Napster.

Armie Hammer plays two roles...as the Winklevoss twins: the well to do aristocratic students who believed facebook was their brainchild and who sued Zuckerberg for 65M$.


The film shows us the life of Zuckerberg between his invention of Facebook until the two major lawsuits he suffered through to gain his freedom. One by the twins who were jealous of his success and the other to offload his best friend from joint ownership. The movie is quite dark in spirit as we get to know a kid with no sense of human interaction...funny he is the one creating the world's largest empire based on social sensibility. We see a kid torn between living life or living through his computer... torn between his aspirations and keeping his few true friends... torn between showing how good he is and scoring with chicks...wasting time for generating money to grow his company or appearing in court becomes all a waste of his time. A man living in a computer generated cocoon and an artificial work environment without any family or true friends around him. In many ways this movie is a cultural criticism. How much should one scarifice to become rich and famous?


Beautifully shot and expertly and very precisely built this movie is like looking inside a complex watch. The blu ray is excellent and even the packaging box is quite original. Another marking movie from David Fincher which will stay with you for many days after viewing and will take on more importance in time.


Le réseau social. Un film de David Fincher qui deviendra rapidement un des importants films pour les Oscars de 2010. Un film au dialogue hyper rapide et qui demande beaucoup d'attention pour être suivit. Ce film est une critique du monde moderne à travers l'histoire véridique du fondateur de Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Ce jeune homme maintenant multi milliardaire a créé l'application Facebook (500 millions d'utilisateurs dans le monde) qui sert a gérer des réseaux sociaux.

Ce film nous montre Zuckerberg sous un angle peut attrayant pendant la période ou il créa Facebook jusqu'au moment ou il fut poursuivi en justice par son bras droit et seul ami ainsi que par les jumeaux Winklevoss qui lui soutireront 65Millions de dollars US. Ceci n'empêcha pas cependant la montée fulgurante de ce personnage; mais a quel prix. On y retrouve un personnage principal isole et définitivement mésadapté socialement; une étrange combinaison pour un génie des réseaux sociaux.


Ce film tres sérieux n'est pas dans la catégorie divertissement. Son regard sévère sur la génération actuelle, sans émotion et sans scrupule, vous suivra pendant plusieurs jours. La cinématographie est excellente. Les acteurs y seront nommés aux Oscars. La version Blu Ray est superbe et même la pochette est bien désignée. Ce film démontre un sens pousse du 7e art et une intense attention aux détails. À voir si vous y mettez toute votre attention.

Great quotes:

Sean Parker: Drop the "the". Just "Facebook". It's cleaner.
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Mark Zuckerberg: People wanna go online and check out their friends, so why not build a website that offers that. I'm talking about taking the entire social experience of college and putting it online.
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Gage: Mr. Zuckerberg, do I have your full attention?
Mark Zuckerberg: [stares out the window] No.
Gage: Do you think I deserve it?
Mark Zuckerberg: [looks at the lawyer] What?
Gage: Do you think I deserve your full attention?
Mark Zuckerberg: I had to swear an oath before we began this deposition, and I don't want to perjure myself, so I have a legal obligation to say no.
Gage: Okay - no. You don't think I deserve your attention.
Mark Zuckerberg: I think if your clients want to sit on my shoulders and call themselves tall, they have the right to give it a try - but there's no requirement that I enjoy sitting here listening to people lie. You have part of my attention - you have the minimum amount. The rest of my attention is back at the offices of Facebook, where my colleagues and I are doing things that no one in this room, including and especially your clients, are intellectually or creatively capable of doing. [pauses]
Mark Zuckerberg: Did I adequately answer your condescending question?
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Erica Albright: 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.
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Sean Parker: You know what's cooler than a million dollars?
Eduardo Saverin: You?
Sean Parker: A billion dollars.
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Mark Zuckerberg: Your actions could have permanently destroyed everything I've been working on! Eduardo Saverin: *We* have been working on!
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Marylin Delpy: What are you doing?
Mark Zuckerberg: Checking in to see how it's going in Bosnia.
Marylin Delpy: Bosnia. They don't have roads, but they have Facebook. [Mark says nothing] Marylin Delpy: You must really hate the Winklevosses.
Mark Zuckerberg: I don't hate anybody. The "Winklevii" aren't suing me for intellectual property theft. They're suing me because for the first time in their lives, things didn't go exactly the way they were supposed to for them.
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Mark Zuckerberg: Your date looks so familiar to me.
Sean Parker: She looks familiar to a lot of people.
Mark Zuckerberg: What do you mean?
Sean Parker: A Stanford MBA named Roy Raymond wants to buy his wife some lingerie but he's too embarrassed to shop for it at a department store. He comes up with an idea for a high end place that doesn't make you feel like a pervert. He gets a $40,000 bank loan, borrows another $40,000 from his in-laws, opens a store, and calls it Victoria's Secret. Makes a half million dollars his first year. He starts a catalog, opens three more stores and after five years he sells the company to Leslie Wexner and the Limited for four million dollars. Happy ending, right? Except two years later, the company's worth 500 million dollars and Roy Raymond jumps off the Golden Gate Bridge. Poor guy just wanted to buy his wife a pair of thigh highs.

Link: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/thesocialnetwork/

Rating perso: 8.5/10