"I DID NOT torture the chicken! I don't torture chickens!"It is to be expected that a film directed by David Fincher and scripted by Aaron Sorkin will be dense, rich and demanding, and The Social Network delivers on all three fronts. The film's repeatedly static scenarios are given a true sense of energy and momentum by the rapid-fire dialogue and constant narrative shifts. Most scenes are conducted either at desks or sitting around a table, but the interesting characters and unfolding enmity between them make them compelling to watch. Jesse Eisenberg is excellent as Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's 'creator', showing an incredible combination of fierce intelligence and flawed vulnerability on the screen, almost matched by Andrew Garfield as his friend and original business partner and Armie Hammer playing both Winklevoss twins in a seamlessly integrated pair of performances. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross create a restrained and very sympathetic soundscape, and Fincher's superb visual stylings have considerable impact throughout from the very first frames (the only misfire being the odd selective defocusing at the Henley race scenes). The ending comes abruptly, and the viewer is still left wondering how much of this story on film is "imaginations running wild", but The Social Network provides a thoughtful, challenging and very rewarding insight into this still-recent global internet phenomenon and the very human stories behind it.
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