the movie was incredibly well made. aaron sorkin's writing was as good as the best days of The West Wing, each member of the cast seemed to just nail their role, the editing was some of the best i've seen, and so on.
perhaps most enjoyably, this is a mainstream movie that is at least in part about the culture and goings-on in the modern world of internet entrepreneurship, i believe the first of its kind... it fully embraces the geekiness that was and is a part of building a web application like Facebook: in the first 30 minutes, the apache web server software project is mentioned at least twice, there are dramatic lines about needing more linux web servers running MySQL, there are punchlines that involve the emacs text editor, and scenes of glorious code writing marathons.
the movie doesn't purport to be factually accurate, but there's enough real history in there that it will likely become the popular understanding of how Facebook actually came to be; it might be close enough. if you use Facebook, or if you're interested in some of the crazy stuff that happens to take a start-up business like Facebook to what it is now, I think 'The Social Network' is a great film to check out.
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