Maybe the thing that seems most prescient about The Social Network today is that it tells the origin story of an enormous power that was, more or less, born out of spite and a desire to degrade women - and that that malevolence immediately finds a community online of others who want to do the same. After all, Zuckerburg, the founder of Facebook and the main character of the film, has accurately pointed out that while screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s version of Zuckerberg was motivated to create the site by a brutal break-up, real-life Zuckerberg is married to his college girlfriend.īut like so many "based on a true story" films that have been fact-checked to death by certain corners of the internet, even with a lot of dramatic licenses, the movie does break down some fundamental truths about social media that are even clearer ten years later. Nothing since the " This Is Fine" cartoon has been a more accurate picture of your present-day daily social feed. We see Eduardo attempt to talk to a ranting Zuckerberg as he also tries to put out a literal garbage fire in his bedroom.
As Eduardo Sauverin, the then Facebook CFO (played by Andrew Garfield), has a phone fight with his BFF, business partner, and current Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg (Jessie Eisenberg), Eduardo’s girlfriend lights his garbage can on fire, tipping it onto his bed. If there's a moment from The Social Network, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this October, that captures the state of the social web in 2020, it's probably one that technically has nothing to do with the site on which the film is based, Facebook.
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