Will You Go See The Social Network?

I tend to be a bit late when it comes to watching movie trailers and online videos that everyone on Twitter is currently RTing themselves silly over. (For example, I just now watched Double Rainbow Guy. Welcome to last week, loser. ) However, I like to think this allows me to properly digest the latest memes and really analyze what’s going on online. (No, I didn’t get that from What the Fuck is My Social Media Strategy, thank you.)

However, in case you’re like me, the idea of a movie about Facebook initially made you want to stab yourself in the, er, face. I had no interest in watching a trailer for a film about some rich guy in the Silicon Valley. I have to read enough about those dudes on Twitter, thanks, why should I spend £20 at the cinema and approximately 90 minutes of my life watching a film about that Zuckerberg guy who is apparently trying to steal my identity and sell my personal information to the CIA, or whatever it is Facebook’s privacy policies are meant to do.

But! I finally watched the trailer for The Social Network, and I was immediately sucked in. And not just because Justin Timberlake is in it.

Based on the book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich, the film follows Zuckerberg from his days at Harvard when he built Facebook, became the youngest billionaire in history, and the both personal and legal ramifications from his success. (Remember that whole thing where Zuckerberg apparently stole the Facebook code fro some other guy at Harvard?) 

But the movie doesn’t play out like some Judd Apatow epic, and Russell Brand isn’t anywhere to be seen. As you can see from the trailer, The Social Network is more about the dark side of entrepreneurship, successs, and presumably the culture of the Silicon Valley that the Euro entrepreneurs are always trying to replicate across the pond.

I’m not sure if it’s cool to want to see this, or if every iPad-clutching geekazoid/Social Media Guru in the world will be camping outside their local movie theatre waiting to buy tickets. All I know is that The Social Network looks like a fascinating film, based on one of the most curious people of our generation.

If The Social Network doesn’t look appealing to you, however, I’m sure the parody trailer for a Twitter movie will make your Monday.