The UnSocial Network

So I watched The Social Network the other night, even as it was winning a Golden Globe for best picture. And surprisingly, the movie was really good...Jesse Eisenberg was incredible. Who knows what Mark Zuckerberg is really like, I've seen some interviews with him. But if I were going to imagine the inventor of Facebook, Eisenbergs' character would have been perfect...and apparently, it's not far off the truth. And ironically, for hype about the story being very one-sided and perhaps unkind to Zuckerberg, favoring his former-friends-turned-enemies, I actually found myself quite endeared to the awkward, idea-obsessed character. In fact, I felt the movie often favored him and made his "friends" who ended up suing him look like whiny left-behinds.
People have said that this movie shows the obsession for money and success that drives much of the young Silicon Valley crowd, but in fact, if any of this movie holds truth, it's that Zuckerberg's obsession was truly the success of his ideas and nothing that came from those ideas. The mark of success for him was the brilliance of the ideas....and they are, and we've all been suckered into it. You know, in our daily lives, no one goes around saying, "man I feel so sorry for that millionaire," or "I'd really hate to have the life of that billionaire"....but see this movie. You really feel sorry for all of them, and they're all rich today....no matter which side they were on.
It's not the whole story, it's a movie based on real-life people, and the average movie-goer can't separate the reality from the fiction or exaggeration. But the big irony this movie shows that I'd say has a high-probability of truth, is just how "unsocial" these founders of Facebook were (and prob still are).
But it's a great movie with good acting, and does serve as an interesting "source" of information on what has become a standard facet, if not obsession, of all of our every day lives.
I recommend.