The Social Network

Shawn and I went to see The Social Network yesterday.  We had been hearing the buzz for awhile now and I really wasn't all that interested.  Then, last week, the buzz reached two of our favorite shows:  The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.  Justin Timberlake, who plays the character of Shawn Parker (the founder of Napster) in the film was on The Daily Show and then Aaron Sorkin was on The Colbert Report.  If you do not know who Aaron Sorkin is then you are missing out!  He is a fantastic, amazing writer.  He is responsible for the screenplays of such films as A Few Good Men and The American President as well as the television series The West Wing, which is one of my favorite shows EVER!  Aaron Sorkin wrote the screenplay for The Social Network and that alone put me into the group of people that would be seeing the film.  I am very glad I did as well.  It was really interesting and entertaining.  The film is presented in such a way that you have to draw your own conclusions as to what really happened.  The three different versions of what happened are all presented.  Mark Zuckerburg (the creator of Facebook) has his story presented as a series of flashbacks while he is giving his testimony in two separate lawsuits at the same time.  One suit against him is by his former best friend and business partner in Facebook, Eduardo Saverin.  The other is a suit against him by three guys who claimed Zuckerburg stole the idea for Facebook from them while they were all students at Harvard.  It was all really quite fascinating.  I doubt I could really explain it so basically you just need to go see it.