The Social Network (1) is the story behind the creation of the social networking website Facebook. The movie tells a story about what is the supposed true story behind the creation of the website. The movie has changed many people's opinion of Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of facebook.
The movie gives off the alure as the true story of facebook, however no one knows the true story except the people who were involved. Even the people involved have conflicting stories. The problem with retelling stories and trying to claim they are true is the truth is hard to find. The movie clearly took the side of Eduardo Saverin and the Winklevoss twins. No one knows if Mark Zuckerberg really did mislead the Winklevoss tiwns, if he really intended to screw Saverin out of his share of the company. There are only a few facts available, the rest is still up in the air.
The problem with people taking stories which are this heavily debated as the truth is no one is sure what is true. You now have the whole audience who think Zuckerberg is a dispicable person who used disception to cheat three aspiring college students out of a company and who cheated his best friend out of a share of the company which he funded. The story may in fact be 100% true, it could also be 100% false. We should take The Social Network for exactly what it is, a conflicted story which visualizes what is one of many possibilities of what could have happened during the creation of Facebook.
1) The Social Network. Directed by David Fincher. Columbia Pictures, 2010. Film
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