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Zuckerberg gave $100 million to Newark’s school system the day before The Social Network premiered, a supposed coincidence in timing that sure seemed intended to prove how little the film actually spoke to the moment.

And Fincher does lean heavily on old Ivy imagery - the height being the double Armie Hammers as the impossibly WASPy Winklevoss twins - even as his film slyly undermines the power structures they’re meant to bring to mind. Sorkin has never made a secret of his contempt for all things online, elevating relationship dramas over details about the digital platform. The Social Network - directed by David Fincher and adapted by Sorkin from Ben Mezrich’s The Accidental Billionaires - is not an especially accurate blow-by-blow of Facebook’s dorm-room origins, freely fictionalizing elements of Zuckerberg’s life in order to portray him as a 21st century Charles Foster Kane whose billion-dollar-empire was sparked by an act of impulsive misogyny. Facebook, he concluded, “helped open a large, uncharted territory for a generation whose world first seemed, in many ways, competitively tighter and more predetermined than ever.”

Nathan Heller at Slate argued that the film’s version of Harvard’s social strata was similarly out of touch. “This is like a film about the atomic bomb which never even introduces the idea that an explosion produced through atomic fission is importantly different from an explosion produced by dynamite,” he wrote. At the New Republic, Lawrence Lessig noted how little screenwriter Aaron Sorkin knew or cared about the internet. “Horrifically unfair,” decried Fortune’s David Kirkpatrick, who happened to have written a glowing account of the company’s early years called The Facebook Effect.

When The Social Network opened in theaters on October 1, 2010, it was greeted with a lot of chin-stroking over whether it was too hard on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Head to Vulture’s Twitter to catch her live commentary, and look ahead at next week’s movie here. This week’s selection comes from film critic Alison Willmore, who will begin her screening of The Social Network on June 19 at 7 p.m. Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin and Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network Photo: Columbia/Kobal/ShutterstockĮvery week for the foreseeable future, Vulture will be selecting one film to watch as part of our Friday Night Movie Club. Here's the plot: "The tale of a new breed of cultural insurgent: a punk genius who sparked a revolution and changed the face of human interaction for a generation, and perhaps forever." 'The Social Network' is currently available to rent, purchase, or stream via subscription on Netflix, Apple iTunes, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, Redbox, AMC on Demand, Spectrum On Demand, DIRECTV, Google Play Movies, and YouTube. You probably already know what the movie's about, but just in case. Released October 1st, 2010, 'The Social Network' stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Armie Hammer The PG-13 movie has a runtime of about 2 hr 1 min, and received a user score of 73 (out of 100) on TMDb, which assembled reviews from 9,719 well-known users. Now, before we get into the fundamentals of how you can watch 'The Social Network' right now, here are some finer points about the Columbia Pictures, Relativity Media, Scott Rudin Productions, Michael De Luca Productions, Trigger Street Productions, Sony Pictures drama flick. Read on for a listing of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription alternatives - along with the availability of 'The Social Network' on each platform when they are available. Looking to feast your eyes on ' The Social Network' in the comfort of your own home? Discovering a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or watch the David Fincher-directed movie via subscription can be confusing, so we here at Moviefone want to do right by you.