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I'll throw in my lot with both of those posts. I think it's absolutely true that most people want their main characters to be likable, though I think that's far more true on TV than it is on film. But yeah, I think it bugs certain people if they can't be pro-protagonist.

On some level I even get it. I wouldn't want to watch films like The Social Network all day long.

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Well, I guess when it comes to pure escapist fare, it's usually best to have pretty clear-cut good and bad, but that sort of simplification can't do mature drama justice, especially anything that supposed to be based on real life events. Real people are more complex than that. They don't go around thinking they're the bad guy.

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funny how facebook came so far. The Social Network was a great movie though

Ashdoc's review---

Whether anybody likes it or not ,facebook is the one of the biggest phenomenons of our times ,and anyone who uses the internet , literally lives under the shadow of facebook.

This the story of how Mark Zuckerberg founded facebook ,or co-founded it ,as he is forced by a lawsuit to admit.
Mark takes the help of friends in harvard to start facebook ,or thefacebook , as it was called at that time , who finance his endeavour . But as happens when huge amounts of money begin to roll in , friendships begin to sour over money, ,relationships begin to break ,and in the end everyone ends up in the courtroom .

Which provides the perfect setting for flashbacks , as much of the movie is in flashback mode ,as everyone remembers and recounts in the courtroom as to what part he had in the making of facebook ,the wheelings and dealings ,from their own perspective , of course. There is no action in the movie , so the director had to keep the dialogues crisp ,and fast-paced. This ,the director has succeeded in doing , and thus creating an engaging movie.

In this movie , Mark Zuckerberg emerges as a total nerd , somebody who might have made a lot of money , but would be difficult to live with , in real life. The movie starts with him breaking up with his girlfriend , who is fed up with his nerdish ways , and he retaliates by passing insulting comments on her in his blog .

However , the movie is made by inputs given by his former friend Eduardo Saverin , who eventually filed a lawsuit on him ,so he is bound to give a negative image of Mark Zuckerberg. Inspite of this , Jesse Eisenberg has given a good portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg ,and his performance is head and shoulder above the others.

Justin Timberlake also acts well as Sean Parker ,the hard-partying man who asks Mark to drop the 'the' from thefacebook ,and call it just facebook ,the name we are familiar with today.

The story of facebook is not yet over ,so there might be a part two movie when it has evolved ,or moved into a bigger league. If its as good as this one , I'll sure watch it.........

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Get outta here.

why ?? what have i done ??

He means that in a joking kind of way. Anyways, good review, but I would have given credit to Andrew Garfield, I thought he gave the best performance in the movie, considering I didn't know his character at all.

Mark wasn't directing that post at you, ashdoc. A spammer (jaky) had posted after you and Mark was responding to the spammer. The spammer has since been banned and their posts have been deleted so it looks like Mark was telling you to get out when he wasn't.

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That's correct. Thanks.

okay :)

thanks :)

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After watching the movie again, I have a question about it. It is said that the plaintiffs signed non-disclosure agreements, so the case would not become public. However, if this case was signed to not become public, than how was this movie even legally made, especially using lines of dialogue from the real record? Wouldn't the non-disclosure agreements prevent such a movie from being made?

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Presumably the NDA just covers some things, and not others.

That's a good question, presumably David Fincher did a bit of legwork with some help from the legal department to get permission to tell the story.

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Oh yeah, I would assume Fincher got permission, I am just wondering if the legal department had a hole in their system that shouldn't have allowed for it, or if it's a screw up on the legal department's end.

I read somewhere before that Eduardo in real life, was a consultant for writing the screenplay, but if he signed an NDA, could he legally be a consultant?

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It's based on a book, so any issues with the disclosures would've predated the film.

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Oh okay. I just read that the book was made from the court transcripts. But what's the point of everyone signing NDA, not to talk about it, when the transcripts are available from anyone to get, and make a book and a movie out of? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of non-disclosure to the public?

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I thought the NDA was referring to the amount of money they all received. Is there a record of that?

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Again, NDAs are about specific things. Some are far-reaching, but some (most?) are specific. As TUS said, in this case I'm pretty sure it referred to things like settlement amount, not on the specifics of the accusations.

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Oh okay, I thought that by what was said in the movie, that they signed an NDA, to not talk about the case, period, because they said it would be an embarrassment to Zuckerberg's company or something like that they said.