The Social Network – 7.5

Less a plotted melodrama than a fascinating character study for which Jesse Eisenberg should get an Oscar nomination, at least. He does more with his eyes than most actors this year have done with their entire bodies. Facebook cofounder Eduardo Saverin is good, too, but I can’t say as much for the rest of the cast. The Woonsocket twins are absurd caricatures, made tolerable only by their putdown at the hands of Larry Summers. We know, of course, the outcome of the movie before we go in; so Sorkin and Fincher are probably justified in not bothering to build suspense. Instead, they concentrate on portraying how an individual such as Mark Zuckerberg can be so brilliant as to invent the social product of the decade, yet personally so inept that those who know him either hate him or sue him. Curiously for a “true story,” the movie spends a lot of time on locations that never existed: depositions in which the antagonists square off and a party scene that makes Harvard look like Animal House.

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