I would definitely not call this a pro-facebook movie, so all of you skeptics should definitely give it a chance. The movie isn't about a website, but rather about the (somewhat flawed) personality of an entrepreneur, and the events that led up to this drastic social change over the last few years.
Yeah, you hear "Facebook movie" and instantly want to run away. But the movie was actually very amazing, very well done. Soundtrack by Trent Reznor was very ominous and I think made the movie what it was. Much different than what I thought it would be. Apparently he didn't even want to do the soundtrack when he was initially approached because he hates Facebook and what it stands for, but then after some reluctance he decided to give it a shot, and created this sort of twisted tone for the movie, so instead of the audience watching the movie like it's some happy college story, you get this feeling that something evil is going down, and history is about to be made. It's interesting to learn about the events that led up to the creation of this new social revolution, and how dark and twisted the entire process was.
My initial reaction to the movie was : I fucking hate facebook and Mark Zuckerberg for what he did to his friends and classmates in order to get to the top. But after sleeping on it and thinking about it today, I realized it's actually pretty inspirational. This guy took an idea (no matter where it actually came from) and he sat down, every hour of every day, living and breathing his project, and created it and worked at it until it was done. I probably wouldn't have made a lot of the fucked up communication errors that he made along the way, inevitably creating dramatic lawsuits and social isolation for himself, but you gotta admire the way he took something so small and worked at it, and pushed at it until it became this billion dollar company. Pretty awe-inspiring if you ask me. It takes a special breed of asshole sometimes to push their way to the top and create something so influential to society. Look at Steve Jobs for example. Not saying that Apple or Facebook have the type of influence that society needs per se, but that their impact is so broad and widely recognized. Anyway, seeing this movie has motivated me to work harder and stop giving up because I think my ideas are stupid and won't change anything.
