The Social Network is a very successful movie. I really love it. It shows the popular social website Facebook’s founding history. It tells the story of two Harvard students Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and Eduardo Saverin, CFO and their founding of Facebook. The movie used flashback narrative, beginning with two parties suing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in the present time. The plaintiffs: Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winlevoss and their business partner Divya Naredra and another party, Mark’s best friend, the CFO Eduardo Saverin. On the defense was Mark Zuckerberg. Through the litigation processes, they explained the whole story about their business to the audience.
At the very beginning, Mark was dating his girlfriend, Erica. On a whole date, Mark went on about how important it was to get into important clubs. His insanity made Erica break up with him, and she told him he was a “jerk”, not a “nerd”. Upset by this, Mark made a website called “Facemash” one night. The website gave males the chance to compare the physical attractiveness of female students. This triggered everything, and a group of students- Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winlevoss and Divya Naredra- wanted Mark to help them build their Harvard connection for socializing with other students and meeting girls, because “who doesn’t want to date a Harvard guy?” They thought Mark was smart enough to help them finish their big project.
This Harvard connection gave Mark the idea to create a site called “TheFacebook”. According to Mark, he thought people liked to see their friends’ pictures, profiles, and statues and know anything about their friends, or to get to know a new friend they had just met at a party. “Why doesn’t he put the whole college social experience online?” I was really impressed by his smartness. He shared his idea to Eduardo Saverin. Eduardo agreed to help him, agreeing that it was a very impressive idea. As Mark and Eduardo started to build “TheFacebook”, more and more people know about it and started to use the social networking site. It turns bad later, however, when The Winkle brothers and Divya Naredra thought Mark had stolen their idea; they wanted to sue Mark, but Tyler against it because it was not “gentle” to do.
At the other end, Mark and Eduardo were becoming more and more popular around the campus. Eduardo’s new girlfriend Christy introduced the Napster founder Sean Parker to Mark and Eduardo. Sean Parker gave Mark a great impression but not Eduardo. Sean’s greatest contribution was giving Mark the idea to call their project “Facebook”; it would be simpler, and better, than “The Facebook”. To them, it was a brilliant idea and from then on, Sean started to work with Mark to help Facebook grow. He helped Facebook with large funds and entered it into the real business industry. However, Eduardo soon got angry at Mark because he felt his CFO status was being replaced by Sean, so he closed the company bank account in order to gain Mark’s attention. In spite of this, however, Facebook continued to grow very quickly; it went international and became its own actual company. Sean and Mark eventually set Eduardo up to sign a stockholder share contract in which he only would receive a very small percentage. As a business major, this made me feel that the real world’s business dealings are quite cruel and heartless. For businessmen, it’s all about money. And that’s why Eduardo went on to sue his own best friend, Mark.
And I really like the part Mark was looking at his business card, which printed: “I am a CEO, Bitch”. Sean told him to do that as payback to his ex-girlfriend. It was really funny.
In the end, a lawyer for the defense told Mark that he is not a jerk, he just trying so hard to be one. This directly reflects from the beginning what Erica said to Mark. In a following scene, he went back and checked Erica’s Facebook profile and finally sent out his friend request, constantly refreshing the page to see if she responded yet. Regardless of his success, he could not rid himself of his feelings for her.
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