The Social Network- A Movie Review

As an assignment, we as a class went to go see the new movie about the creators of facebook, The Social Network. I thought it was a really great movie. After the movie I did some research and found out that majority of the movie was true. I thought the actual structure of the movie was interesting. It was not told in a chronological order. It starts off very forward but then these scenes of their depositions keep coming in. It was developed in a unique way which made the movie more and more interesting.

Now on the to the CMC part of the movie. Mark Zuckerburg was quite an interesting character but a genius. Although he stole the initial idea of forming this website, he can take full credit for the development and the popularity of facebook. Mark and Eduardo were a perfect team together. In the first scene, Mark was talking about how bad he wanted in to this Phoenix group. I did not totally understand that group. I wasnt sure if it was like a secret society or a fraternity. Either way Mark wanted to belong. This facebook theory was a way for him to belong. The exclusivity made the facebook feel like it was its own secret society.

As he formed more and more of facebook, it took off. They were opening it up to other ivy league schools. After the twins rode in thier crew race, a man came up to them and said his daughter had seen a video of them losing on some website. The daughter was from another school in another state. This really had showed that this website had gone national. It was setting up what would be one of the top most used websites EVER!

Sean Parker was also an interesting character. Although he was a complete A-HOLE, I think he could definitely take credit for helping the company really fly. Sean Parker knew all of the people to get in touch with. He is the one who made facebook become a corporate company.

This movie was a great way to see our CMC really change. In less than 10 years, a simple idea of haveing a social online network has become one of the largest and most successful companies!