La Red Social es la Ășltima pelĂcula de David Fincher, director entre otras de El Club de la Lucha, Seven, o El Curioso Caso de Benjamin Button. En ella se cuenta de una manera peliculera (es decir introduciendo sexo y drogas) el despegue de la red social Facebook desde sus inicios.
âYou canât have 500 million friends without making some enemiesâ is its motto, and it is clear from the first scene, in which we are introduced to Mark Zuckerberg having an argument with his girlfriend, demonstrating no capacity for social relationships, with robotic phrases and expressions that perfectly reveal his role in the film.
Mark Zuckerberg is shown to us as an isolated and asocial person. The typical geek who locks himself in his room for days and days to program because he lives alone and for his programs. This lack of ability to relate socially and his anger after being abandoned by his girlfriend leads to the creation of FaceSmash, a page to compare sorority girls (how American that sounds) and rate them. Something that in the real world would only serve to receive a good couple of wafers in the movie serves to make some strangers in a bar wet their panties. It happens to us computer scientists 2 to 4 times a week when we program something.
The film tells the story of the creation of Facebook with a good dose of suspense, betrayals between founders and a very bad bad guy who surely appears there with that role because the record companies put a good wad of cash on the table: Shawn Fanning (Justin Timerblake), the creator of Napster and an idol for Mark.
The beginning of the film may be most disconcerting for those who have not studied programming, but it is only the beginning; Then the programming issue is practically not touched on and the film becomes a lawyer film in which we will inevitably side with Eduardo Saverin (Would he put a wad of bills on the table to make a good impression in the film?). In particular, I found it quite interesting that practically everything that is talked about at the beginning of the film about requests, scripts, etc. is quite well documented.
In short, The Social Network is a good movie with which you can have an entertaining time. It wouldnât surprise me in the least if it won the odd Oscar in the next edition because it seems like it was made precisely to win that award.