By Rachael Bentley

If you are the kind of person who limit themselves to seeing only one or two movies a month, you should probably save one of those slots for the Social Network, directed by David Fincher.

Considering every person, their mother and grandmother have a Facebook these days, learning about how it was created and became such a hit is really entertaining. The witty and satirical sense of humor that comes with almost all of Aaron Sorkin’s works is really what brings the movie together.

The whole movie is about people’s connections with each other, whether it’s between people who are friends, enemies, random hook-ups or someone you’ve only heard about. Mark Zuckerberg’s character (played by the Jesse Eisenberg) seems to be the stereotypical genius teenager; tuned out to reality and looking to make it big. His character is introduced to the viewers as, to put it plainly, insensitive.

The first scene (which Sorkin claims was a brutal scene to shoot because of its intense nature) is Zuckerberg getting dumped by his girlfriend. This whole scene acts as a catalyst for what happens during the movie.

For those of you who don’t know, I shall recap. Zuckerberg is asked to create a social network site by the Winklevoss brothers (twins) who row for Harvard and who come from a lot of money. He makes a deal with them, and while he is supposed to be creating their site, he created “The Facebook” for people in the Harvard Network. When they found out, they sue him. All whiles this is going on, Facebook has become a massive corporation and Zuckerburg’s best friend (Eduardo Saverin) is helping and co-owning Facebook with Zuckerberg to make it as big as possible.

In the process of creating Facebook, Mark is introduced to Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake, who apparently had to jump through hoops to get this role) and things get out of control in good and bad ways. Facebook goes international to Oxford, England and they hit one million people, Zuckerberg gets sued by Eduardo, for scamming him of his money.

Mark settles on both cases and pays large amounts to both parties and the rest, as they say, is “history.” The things that makes this movie great is that you don’t know whose side of the story to believe because Sorkin wrote it in such a way, that you really don’t know who to blame, although Justin Timberlake does play a devious, paranoid entrepreneur very well.

You can’t read Zuckerberg’s character very well in the movie, although it is apparent he has some self-esteem issues because he never got into the Phoenix Men’s Club, and his best friend did. Perhaps that was the motivation to weasel him out of millions. Perhaps he really is just a jerk.

As a viewer, I couldn’t really tell, and that was what I loved about the movie so much. To put it plainly, you can’t be an idiot and see this movie because you need a sharp sense of humor to be able to keep up with it. The headline for this movie is “you can’t make 500 Million friends, without making a few enemies.”  The question that this movie asks, wittingly or accidentally, is who are your enemies and who are your friends?