The Social Network

Well, first things first, this is an amazing movie, the way that wrote this story about Mark Zuckerberg and the founding of Facebook. One aspect that I loved on how the characters in the movie are represented because at the end of the day, no one is painted as the “good guy”. I really want to turn the focus on that point to the other two characters in this movie: Sean Parker and Eduardo Saverin. While it was about Zuckerberg, the real battle between them.

So in the beginning, while Mark was making his revenge website, FaceMash, Eduardo helped him by writing an algorithm to help him with the website. While you can say “oh, Eduardo was trying to warn him that it was a bad idea” or “Eduardo was just trying to be a good friend” but at the end of the day, he still helped with the website regardless. Don’t get me wrong, if anything, the movie paints him as kind of like the chaotic good of the movie, he’s definitely loyal to his friends, to a point that would be his downfall later on with Zuckerberg and Parker.

Sean Parker on the other hand, is definitely someone who is a businessman and his like mindedness to each other caused them to bond early and quickly because they shared the same vision for Facebook. Sean also had natural charm and connections with how he took on the music industry with his revolutionary product, Napster. With all that said, he’s shrewd, a drug addict and his taste in women are on the younger side. It was the reason he ended up be fired from Facebook because he was caught with crack at a college party.

Which leads into my favorite scene, when they all meet up at the same table for the first time. At this point, (at least for me) the movie takes this Wolf of Wall Street where you see how the cut throat environment of capitalism takes place in this one scene. On one hand, Parker’s ideas tie in Zuckerberg, as in a way Zuckerburg looks at this guy as an actual mentor figure and wants to go in his direction. However, Parker and Saverin disagree in what direction they want Facebook to go entirely. Speaking of the Wolf of Wall Street, the scene from The Social Network is a lot like the scene early on with Jordan Belfort and Mark Hanna, a teaching of the capitalist, money hungry world.