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Calculated Shard: 92 (from laksa033)

2. Crawled Status Check

Query:

curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa092.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/the-social-network-113030/\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/the-social-network-113030/\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

Response:

{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-reviews\/the-social-network-113030\/","crawl_time":1776231901,"first_indexed_time":1655999670,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,rollingstone!www,\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-reviews\/the-social-network-113030\/ s443","src_root_hash":"6480905922786146692","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"The Social Network","meta_descriptions":["Peter Travers applauds 'The Social Network' \"from start to finish.\""],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Skip to main content\nThe Social Network\nHere’s a poke to users and nonusers of Facebook:\nThe Social Network\nisn’t some yawny visual aid on how the website grew from a few hundred users at Harvard in 2004 to a 2010 global reach of half a billion.\nThe Social Network\nis a hard-charging beast of a movie with a full tank of creative gas that keeps it humming from start to finish (hell of a middle, too). Sure, it gives you the facts about how then-Harvard undergrad\nMark Zuckerberg\n(a never-better\nJesse Eisenberg\n) made billions by helping technology win the battle against actual human contact. But it’s also about the nation of narcissists we’ve become, reshaping who we are on Facebook in the hope of being friended by other users who may or may not be lying their asses off. Bracingly smart, brutally funny and acted to perfection without exception,\nThe Social Network\nlights up a dim movie sky with flares of startling brilliance. Director\nDavid Fincher\n(\nFight Club\n,\nSeven\n,\nZodiac\n) puts his visual mastery to work on the verbal pyrotechnics in the dynamite, dick-swinging script by Aaron Sorkin (\nThe West Wing\n), and they both do the best and ballsiest work of their careers.\nThe Social Network\ngets you drunk on movies again. It deserves to go viral.\nIn the film’s wow of an opener, set in 2003, Sorkin speculatively places Mark at a campus bar, where he is driving his girlfriend nuts by avoiding eye contact, juggling a dozen topics at once and ignoring her reaction to virtually everything. She is Erica, and as played like a gathering storm by Rooney Mara, winner of the coveted title role in Fincher’s\nThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo\n, she is steaming. It’s a setup for disaster: tech nerd versus the real live girl from Boston University he uses to unload on. Fed up with his condescension and his obsession with getting into one of Harvard’s elite “final clubs,” Erica calls him an asshole and splits. A shattered Mark returns to the dorm he shares with Dustin Moskovitz (Joseph Mazzello) and Chris Hughes (Patrick Mapel), and, beer in hand, blogs out his festering rage, attacking Erica as a flat-chested bitch, hacking into photo files of female Harvard undergrads and ranking them on a hotness scale. Out of anger over being socially rejected, a social network is born.\nEditor’s picks\nWho gets the credit\/blame? There’s no doubt Mark is the CEO of a Facebook complex currently valued at $25 billion. But don’t forget his BFF, Brazilian student Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield), who provided the business plan and early financing. And then there’s the memorable Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler (both played by Armie Hammer, with Josh Pence doing duty as a body double). The Winklevi, as Mark calls them, are blond vikings on the Harvard rowing crew and, in their eyes, the originators of Facebook. They were the ones who asked Mark to help them build a Harvard computer-dating service. They all successfully sued for a piece of the pie they claim that Mark the Judas screwed them out of when he took his idea to Silicon Valley and global dominance. Not a drop of blood is spilled in\nThe Social Network\n, but you can’t miss the scar tissue.\nAs advertised, it’s a tale of sex, money, genius and betrayal. But can a script based on what Zuckerberg calls “fiction” dig out the truth? The film’s maverick producer, Scott Rudin, paraphrasing a line from Sorkin’s\nA Few Good Men\n, argues that “there is no such thing as the truth.” He has a point. That’s why Sorkin, using research compiled by journalist Ben Mezrich for his book\nThe Accidental Billionaires\n, written concurrently with the script, went to court depositions of Zuckerberg, Saverin and the Winklevi and created a fact-based structure that gives the movie multiple points of view. The\nRashomon\nidea is inspired, and Fincher directs it with thrilling cinematic fervor. How? By effectively giving each character his own Facebook page. Watch the movie and decide who you want to add as a friend.\nTrending Stories\nIt won’t be easy. Sorkin and Fincher come down hard on these characters, without skimping on complexity and sympathy. Eisenberg delivers a tour de force, nimbly negotiating Sorkin’s rat-a-tat dialogue and revealing how alienation and loneliness actually fuel Mark’s ambition. More crucially, Eisenberg lets us see the chinks in Mark’s armor, unearthing long-buried feelings when Napster co-founder Sean Parker (\nJustin Timberlake\n) enters the scene, ready to take Facebook to the next level even if it means leaving Eduardo behind as roadkill. Timberlake is phenomenal, a revelation, even. You expect him to nail Sean’s charming hustle, and he does, working a restaurant meeting with Mark and Eduardo like a twentysomething Dr. Evil. “A million dollars isn’t cool,” he says. “You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.” Sean, with a rep for drugs and very young women, sinks his hooks in. He’s a seductive Iago to Mark’s ego-bruised Othello. It’s a role to die for, and Timberlake the mesmerizer just crushes it.\nRelated Content\nNote to Oscar: You need to step up big time for Garfield, who plays Eduardo with a vulnerability that raises the emotional stakes in a movie that is built on ice cool, a fact reflected in the haunting visuals achieved digitally by gifted cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth and the hypnotic musical road map laid out by\nTrent Reznor\nand\nAtticus Ross\n. Was Mark jealous that the Harvard final club that rejected him accepted Eduardo? Keep your eyes on Garfield — he’s shatteringly good, the soul of a film that might otherwise be without one.\nThe Social Network\nis the movie of the year. But Fincher and Sorkin triumph by taking it further. Lacing their scathing wit with an aching sadness, they define the dark irony of the past decade. The final image of solitary Mark at his computer has to resonate for a generation of users (the drug term seems apt) sitting in front of a glowing screen pretending not to be alone.\nTV & Movies\nTV & Movies Reviews\nMore News","attrs_markdown":"×\n\n![an image, when javascript is unavailable](https:\/\/sb.scorecardresearch.com\/p?c1=2&c2=6035310&c4=&cv=3.9&cj=1)\n\n[×](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-reviews\/the-social-network-113030\/)\n\n[Skip to main content](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-reviews\/the-social-network-113030\/#pagetop)\n\n[Rollingstone Logo](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/)\n\nClick to expand the Mega Menu\n\nClick to Expand Search Input\n\n- [Music](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/)\n- [Politics](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/)\n- [TV & Movies](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/)\n- [Culture](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/)\n- [VIBE](https:\/\/vibe.com\/)\n\n[Got A Tip?](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tips\/)\n\n[Account](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-reviews\/the-social-network-113030\/)\n\n[Welcome](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-reviews\/the-social-network-113030\/)\n\n[Manage Account](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/my-account\/)\n\n[Manage Print Account](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/manage-print-account\/)\n\n[Sign Out](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-reviews\/the-social-network-113030\/)\n\nLog In\n\nClick to expand the Mega Menu\n\nClick to Expand Search Input\n\n[Rollingstone Logo](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/)\n\nTV & Movies\n\n### [The Social Network](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-reviews\/the-social-network-113030\/)\n\n- [Facebook](https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-reviews\/the-social-network-113030\/&title=The%20Social%20Network&sdk=joey&display=popup&ref=plugin&src=share_button \"Facebook\")\n- [X](https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/post?url=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-reviews\/the-social-network-113030\/&text=The%20Social%20Network&via=RollingStone \"X\")\n- [google-preferred](https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rollingstone.com \"google-preferred\")\n- [email](mailto:?subject=RollingStone%20:%20The%20Social%20Network&body=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-reviews\/the-social-network-113030\/%20-%20The%20Social%20Network \"email\")\n\n[Got A Tip?](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tips\/)\n\n[Account](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-reviews\/the-social-network-113030\/)\n\n[Welcome](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-reviews\/the-social-network-113030\/)\n\n[Manage Account](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/my-account\/)\n\n[Manage Print Account](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/manage-print-account\/)\n\n[Sign Out](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-reviews\/the-social-network-113030\/)\n\nLog In\n\nTV & Movies\n\n# The Social Network\n\nBy  [Peter Travers](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/author\/peter-travers\/)\n\n### [Peter Travers](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/author\/peter-travers\/)\n[Contact Peter Travers on X](https:\/\/twitter.com\/petertravers \"X Icon\")\n\n- [‘Tenet’ Review: Christopher Nolan’s Knockout Arrives Right on Time](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-reviews\/tenet-movie-review-christopher-nolan-1047641\/)\n- [‘Bill & Ted Face the Music’ Review: Third Time’s a Most Excellent Charm](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-reviews\/bill-and-ted-face-the-music-movie-review-1048742\/)\n- [‘Personal History of David Copperfield’ Review: Dickens, Served with a Side of Absurdity](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-reviews\/personal-history-of-david-copperfield-movie-review-1048764\/)\n\n[View all posts by Peter Travers](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/author\/peter-travers\/)\n\nOctober 14, 2010\n\n![ph](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/rs-199657-placeholder.jpg?w=1401&h=934&crop=1)\n\nHere’s a poke to users and nonusers of Facebook: *The Social Network* isn’t some yawny visual aid on how the website grew from a few hundred users at Harvard in 2004 to a 2010 global reach of half a billion. *The Social Network* is a hard-charging beast of a movie with a full tank of creative gas that keeps it humming from start to finish (hell of a middle, too). Sure, it gives you the facts about how then-Harvard undergrad [Mark Zuckerberg](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/mark-zuckerberg\/) (a never-better [Jesse Eisenberg](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jesse-eisenberg\/)) made billions by helping technology win the battle against actual human contact. But it’s also about the nation of narcissists we’ve become, reshaping who we are on Facebook in the hope of being friended by other users who may or may not be lying their asses off. Bracingly smart, brutally funny and acted to perfection without exception, *The Social Network* lights up a dim movie sky with flares of startling brilliance. Director [David Fincher](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/david-fincher\/) ([*Fight Club*](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/fight-club-96171\/), [*Seven*](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/seven-94633\/), [*Zodiac*](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/zodiac-115877\/)) puts his visual mastery to work on the verbal pyrotechnics in the dynamite, dick-swinging script by Aaron Sorkin (*The West Wing*), and they both do the best and ballsiest work of their careers. *The Social Network* gets you drunk on movies again. It deserves to go viral.\n\nIn the film’s wow of an opener, set in 2003, Sorkin speculatively places Mark at a campus bar, where he is driving his girlfriend nuts by avoiding eye contact, juggling a dozen topics at once and ignoring her reaction to virtually everything. She is Erica, and as played like a gathering storm by Rooney Mara, winner of the coveted title role in Fincher’s *The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo*, she is steaming. It’s a setup for disaster: tech nerd versus the real live girl from Boston University he uses to unload on. Fed up with his condescension and his obsession with getting into one of Harvard’s elite “final clubs,” Erica calls him an asshole and splits. A shattered Mark returns to the dorm he shares with Dustin Moskovitz (Joseph Mazzello) and Chris Hughes (Patrick Mapel), and, beer in hand, blogs out his festering rage, attacking Erica as a flat-chested bitch, hacking into photo files of female Harvard undergrads and ranking them on a hotness scale. Out of anger over being socially rejected, a social network is born.\n\n## Editor’s picks\n[![](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/250-Greatest-Songs-of-the-21st-Century-THUMB.jpg?w=225&h=225&crop=1) The 250 Greatest Albums of the 21st Century So Far](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/best-albums-21st-century-1235177256\/)\n\n[![](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Best-Eps-of-All-Time-_-Final-1.jpg?w=225&h=225&crop=1) The 100 Best TV Episodes of All Time](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-lists\/best-tv-episodes-of-all-time-1235090945\/)\n\n[![](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/R1344_TOC_Greatest_Albums.jpg?w=225&h=225&crop=1) The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063\/)\n\n[![](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Movies-of-the-21st-Cent_Final.jpg?w=225&h=225&crop=1) 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-lists\/best-movies-of-the-21st-century-1235200512\/)\n\nWho gets the credit\/blame? There’s no doubt Mark is the CEO of a Facebook complex currently valued at \\$25 billion. But don’t forget his BFF, Brazilian student Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield), who provided the business plan and early financing. And then there’s the memorable Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler (both played by Armie Hammer, with Josh Pence doing duty as a body double). The Winklevi, as Mark calls them, are blond vikings on the Harvard rowing crew and, in their eyes, the originators of Facebook. They were the ones who asked Mark to help them build a Harvard computer-dating service. They all successfully sued for a piece of the pie they claim that Mark the Judas screwed them out of when he took his idea to Silicon Valley and global dominance. Not a drop of blood is spilled in *The Social Network*, but you can’t miss the scar tissue.\n\nAs advertised, it’s a tale of sex, money, genius and betrayal. But can a script based on what Zuckerberg calls “fiction” dig out the truth? The film’s maverick producer, Scott Rudin, paraphrasing a line from Sorkin’s *A Few Good Men*, argues that “there is no such thing as the truth.” He has a point. That’s why Sorkin, using research compiled by journalist Ben Mezrich for his book *The Accidental Billionaires*, written concurrently with the script, went to court depositions of Zuckerberg, Saverin and the Winklevi and created a fact-based structure that gives the movie multiple points of view. The *Rashomon* idea is inspired, and Fincher directs it with thrilling cinematic fervor. How? By effectively giving each character his own Facebook page. Watch the movie and decide who you want to add as a friend.\n\n## Trending Stories\n[New Edition Won the Rock Hall Fan Vote, But Won't Be Inducted — Here's Why](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/new-edition-rock-hall-fan-vote-inducted-1235546734\/)\n\n[Kacey Musgraves, Jack White, Sarah Palin, the Internet Roast Trump for Bonkers AI Jesus Post](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-news\/trump-jesus-kacey-musgraves-sarah-palin-meme-1235547021\/)\n\n[BTS Is Back on Top: ‘We Have to Push It to the Edge’](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/bts-reuniting-new-album-arirang-interview-1235544625\/)\n\n[What You Need to Know About the Automatic Military Draft](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/will-there-be-a-military-draft-1235546711\/)\n\nIt won’t be easy. Sorkin and Fincher come down hard on these characters, without skimping on complexity and sympathy. Eisenberg delivers a tour de force, nimbly negotiating Sorkin’s rat-a-tat dialogue and revealing how alienation and loneliness actually fuel Mark’s ambition. More crucially, Eisenberg lets us see the chinks in Mark’s armor, unearthing long-buried feelings when Napster co-founder Sean Parker ([Justin Timberlake](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/artist\/justin-timberlake)) enters the scene, ready to take Facebook to the next level even if it means leaving Eduardo behind as roadkill. Timberlake is phenomenal, a revelation, even. You expect him to nail Sean’s charming hustle, and he does, working a restaurant meeting with Mark and Eduardo like a twentysomething Dr. Evil. “A million dollars isn’t cool,” he says. “You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.” Sean, with a rep for drugs and very young women, sinks his hooks in. He’s a seductive Iago to Mark’s ego-bruised Othello. It’s a role to die for, and Timberlake the mesmerizer just crushes it.\n\n## Related Content\n[Nine Inch Noize Performed a Full Set for the First Time at Coachella](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/nine-inch-noize-performance-coachella-2026-1235543497\/)\n\n[The Rise of the Digital Oligarchy](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/political-commentary\/rise-digital-oligarchy-ai-era-1235534437\/)\n\n[Social-Media-Addiction Lawyer on Landmark Trial: ‘Social Media Is Inherently Unhealthy for Kids’](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-features\/social-media-addiction-lawyer-interview-win-1235537800\/)\n\n[Meta and YouTube Found Negligent, ‘Dangerous’ to Minors. Jury Awards \\$6 Million](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-news\/social-media-addiction-trial-verdict-meta-youtube-1235530256\/)\n\nNote to Oscar: You need to step up big time for Garfield, who plays Eduardo with a vulnerability that raises the emotional stakes in a movie that is built on ice cool, a fact reflected in the haunting visuals achieved digitally by gifted cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth and the hypnotic musical road map laid out by [Trent Reznor](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/trent-reznor\/) and [Atticus Ross](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/atticus-ross\/). Was Mark jealous that the Harvard final club that rejected him accepted Eduardo? Keep your eyes on Garfield — he’s shatteringly good, the soul of a film that might otherwise be without one. *The Social Network* is the movie of the year. But Fincher and Sorkin triumph by taking it further. Lacing their scathing wit with an aching sadness, they define the dark irony of the past decade. 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Sure, it gives you the facts about how then-Harvard undergrad [Mark Zuckerberg](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/mark-zuckerberg\/) (a never-better [Jesse Eisenberg](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jesse-eisenberg\/)) made billions by helping technology win the battle against actual human contact. But it’s also about the nation of narcissists we’ve become, reshaping who we are on Facebook in the hope of being friended by other users who may or may not be lying their asses off. Bracingly smart, brutally funny and acted to perfection without exception, *The Social Network* lights up a dim movie sky with flares of startling brilliance. Director [David Fincher](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/david-fincher\/) ([*Fight Club*](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/fight-club-96171\/), [*Seven*](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/seven-94633\/), [*Zodiac*](https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/zodiac-115877\/)) puts his visual mastery to work on the verbal pyrotechnics in the dynamite, dick-swinging script by Aaron Sorkin (*The West Wing*), and they both do the best and ballsiest work of their careers. *The Social Network* gets you drunk on movies again. It deserves to go viral.\n\nIn the film’s wow of an opener, set in 2003, Sorkin speculatively places Mark at a campus bar, where he is driving his girlfriend nuts by avoiding eye contact, juggling a dozen topics at once and ignoring her reaction to virtually everything. She is Erica, and as played like a gathering storm by Rooney Mara, winner of the coveted title role in Fincher’s *The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo*, she is steaming. It’s a setup for disaster: tech nerd versus the real live girl from Boston University he uses to unload on. Fed up with his condescension and his obsession with getting into one of Harvard’s elite “final clubs,” Erica calls him an asshole and splits. A shattered Mark returns to the dorm he shares with Dustin Moskovitz (Joseph Mazzello) and Chris Hughes (Patrick Mapel), and, beer in hand, blogs out his festering rage, attacking Erica as a flat-chested bitch, hacking into photo files of female Harvard undergrads and ranking them on a hotness scale. Out of anger over being socially rejected, a social network is born.\n\n## Editor’s picks\nWho gets the credit\/blame? There’s no doubt Mark is the CEO of a Facebook complex currently valued at \\$25 billion. But don’t forget his BFF, Brazilian student Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield), who provided the business plan and early financing. And then there’s the memorable Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler (both played by Armie Hammer, with Josh Pence doing duty as a body double). The Winklevi, as Mark calls them, are blond vikings on the Harvard rowing crew and, in their eyes, the originators of Facebook. They were the ones who asked Mark to help them build a Harvard computer-dating service. They all successfully sued for a piece of the pie they claim that Mark the Judas screwed them out of when he took his idea to Silicon Valley and global dominance. Not a drop of blood is spilled in *The Social Network*, but you can’t miss the scar tissue.\n\nAs advertised, it’s a tale of sex, money, genius and betrayal. But can a script based on what Zuckerberg calls “fiction” dig out the truth? The film’s maverick producer, Scott Rudin, paraphrasing a line from Sorkin’s *A Few Good Men*, argues that “there is no such thing as the truth.” He has a point. That’s why Sorkin, using research compiled by journalist Ben Mezrich for his book *The Accidental Billionaires*, written concurrently with the script, went to court depositions of Zuckerberg, Saverin and the Winklevi and created a fact-based structure that gives the movie multiple points of view. The *Rashomon* idea is inspired, and Fincher directs it with thrilling cinematic fervor. How? By effectively giving each character his own Facebook page. Watch the movie and decide who you want to add as a friend.\n\n## Trending Stories\nIt won’t be easy. Sorkin and Fincher come down hard on these characters, without skimping on complexity and sympathy. Eisenberg delivers a tour de force, nimbly negotiating Sorkin’s rat-a-tat dialogue and revealing how alienation and loneliness actually fuel Mark’s ambition. 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Boilerpipe Text	Skip to main content The Social Network Here’s a poke to users and nonusers of Facebook: The Social Network isn’t some yawny visual aid on how the website grew from a few hundred users at Harvard in 2004 to a 2010 global reach of half a billion. The Social Network is a hard-charging beast of a movie with a full tank of creative gas that keeps it humming from start to finish (hell of a middle, too). Sure, it gives you the facts about how then-Harvard undergrad Mark Zuckerberg (a never-better Jesse Eisenberg ) made billions by helping technology win the battle against actual human contact. But it’s also about the nation of narcissists we’ve become, reshaping who we are on Facebook in the hope of being friended by other users who may or may not be lying their asses off. Bracingly smart, brutally funny and acted to perfection without exception, The Social Network lights up a dim movie sky with flares of startling brilliance. Director David Fincher ( Fight Club , Seven , Zodiac ) puts his visual mastery to work on the verbal pyrotechnics in the dynamite, dick-swinging script by Aaron Sorkin ( The West Wing ), and they both do the best and ballsiest work of their careers. The Social Network gets you drunk on movies again. It deserves to go viral. In the film’s wow of an opener, set in 2003, Sorkin speculatively places Mark at a campus bar, where he is driving his girlfriend nuts by avoiding eye contact, juggling a dozen topics at once and ignoring her reaction to virtually everything. She is Erica, and as played like a gathering storm by Rooney Mara, winner of the coveted title role in Fincher’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo , she is steaming. It’s a setup for disaster: tech nerd versus the real live girl from Boston University he uses to unload on. Fed up with his condescension and his obsession with getting into one of Harvard’s elite “final clubs,” Erica calls him an asshole and splits. A shattered Mark returns to the dorm he shares with Dustin Moskovitz (Joseph Mazzello) and Chris Hughes (Patrick Mapel), and, beer in hand, blogs out his festering rage, attacking Erica as a flat-chested bitch, hacking into photo files of female Harvard undergrads and ranking them on a hotness scale. Out of anger over being socially rejected, a social network is born. Editor’s picks Who gets the credit/blame? There’s no doubt Mark is the CEO of a Facebook complex currently valued at $25 billion. But don’t forget his BFF, Brazilian student Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield), who provided the business plan and early financing. And then there’s the memorable Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler (both played by Armie Hammer, with Josh Pence doing duty as a body double). The Winklevi, as Mark calls them, are blond vikings on the Harvard rowing crew and, in their eyes, the originators of Facebook. They were the ones who asked Mark to help them build a Harvard computer-dating service. They all successfully sued for a piece of the pie they claim that Mark the Judas screwed them out of when he took his idea to Silicon Valley and global dominance. Not a drop of blood is spilled in The Social Network , but you can’t miss the scar tissue. As advertised, it’s a tale of sex, money, genius and betrayal. But can a script based on what Zuckerberg calls “fiction” dig out the truth? The film’s maverick producer, Scott Rudin, paraphrasing a line from Sorkin’s A Few Good Men , argues that “there is no such thing as the truth.” He has a point. That’s why Sorkin, using research compiled by journalist Ben Mezrich for his book The Accidental Billionaires , written concurrently with the script, went to court depositions of Zuckerberg, Saverin and the Winklevi and created a fact-based structure that gives the movie multiple points of view. The Rashomon idea is inspired, and Fincher directs it with thrilling cinematic fervor. How? By effectively giving each character his own Facebook page. Watch the movie and decide who you want to add as a friend. Trending Stories It won’t be easy. Sorkin and Fincher come down hard on these characters, without skimping on complexity and sympathy. Eisenberg delivers a tour de force, nimbly negotiating Sorkin’s rat-a-tat dialogue and revealing how alienation and loneliness actually fuel Mark’s ambition. More crucially, Eisenberg lets us see the chinks in Mark’s armor, unearthing long-buried feelings when Napster co-founder Sean Parker ( Justin Timberlake ) enters the scene, ready to take Facebook to the next level even if it means leaving Eduardo behind as roadkill. Timberlake is phenomenal, a revelation, even. You expect him to nail Sean’s charming hustle, and he does, working a restaurant meeting with Mark and Eduardo like a twentysomething Dr. Evil. “A million dollars isn’t cool,” he says. “You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.” Sean, with a rep for drugs and very young women, sinks his hooks in. He’s a seductive Iago to Mark’s ego-bruised Othello. It’s a role to die for, and Timberlake the mesmerizer just crushes it. Related Content Note to Oscar: You need to step up big time for Garfield, who plays Eduardo with a vulnerability that raises the emotional stakes in a movie that is built on ice cool, a fact reflected in the haunting visuals achieved digitally by gifted cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth and the hypnotic musical road map laid out by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross . Was Mark jealous that the Harvard final club that rejected him accepted Eduardo? Keep your eyes on Garfield — he’s shatteringly good, the soul of a film that might otherwise be without one. The Social Network is the movie of the year. But Fincher and Sorkin triumph by taking it further. Lacing their scathing wit with an aching sadness, they define the dark irony of the past decade. The final image of solitary Mark at his computer has to resonate for a generation of users (the drug term seems apt) sitting in front of a glowing screen pretending not to be alone. TV & Movies TV & Movies Reviews More News
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The Social Network is a hard-charging beast of a movie with a full tank of creative gas that keeps it humming from start to finish (hell of a middle, too). Sure, it gives you the facts about how then-Harvard undergrad [Mark Zuckerberg](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/mark-zuckerberg/) (a never-better [Jesse Eisenberg](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/jesse-eisenberg/)) made billions by helping technology win the battle against actual human contact. But it’s also about the nation of narcissists we’ve become, reshaping who we are on Facebook in the hope of being friended by other users who may or may not be lying their asses off. Bracingly smart, brutally funny and acted to perfection without exception, The Social Network lights up a dim movie sky with flares of startling brilliance. Director [David Fincher](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/david-fincher/) ([Fight Club](https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/fight-club-96171/), [Seven](https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/seven-94633/), [Zodiac](https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/zodiac-115877/)) puts his visual mastery to work on the verbal pyrotechnics in the dynamite, dick-swinging script by Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing), and they both do the best and ballsiest work of their careers. The Social Network gets you drunk on movies again. It deserves to go viral. In the film’s wow of an opener, set in 2003, Sorkin speculatively places Mark at a campus bar, where he is driving his girlfriend nuts by avoiding eye contact, juggling a dozen topics at once and ignoring her reaction to virtually everything. She is Erica, and as played like a gathering storm by Rooney Mara, winner of the coveted title role in Fincher’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, she is steaming. It’s a setup for disaster: tech nerd versus the real live girl from Boston University he uses to unload on. Fed up with his condescension and his obsession with getting into one of Harvard’s elite “final clubs,” Erica calls him an asshole and splits. A shattered Mark returns to the dorm he shares with Dustin Moskovitz (Joseph Mazzello) and Chris Hughes (Patrick Mapel), and, beer in hand, blogs out his festering rage, attacking Erica as a flat-chested bitch, hacking into photo files of female Harvard undergrads and ranking them on a hotness scale. Out of anger over being socially rejected, a social network is born. ## Editor’s picks [![](https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/250-Greatest-Songs-of-the-21st-Century-THUMB.jpg?w=225&h=225&crop=1) The 250 Greatest Albums of the 21st Century So Far](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-21st-century-1235177256/) [![](https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Best-Eps-of-All-Time-_-Final-1.jpg?w=225&h=225&crop=1) The 100 Best TV Episodes of All Time](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-lists/best-tv-episodes-of-all-time-1235090945/) [![](https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/R1344_TOC_Greatest_Albums.jpg?w=225&h=225&crop=1) The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/) [![](https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Movies-of-the-21st-Cent_Final.jpg?w=225&h=225&crop=1) 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-lists/best-movies-of-the-21st-century-1235200512/) Who gets the credit/blame? There’s no doubt Mark is the CEO of a Facebook complex currently valued at \$25 billion. But don’t forget his BFF, Brazilian student Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield), who provided the business plan and early financing. And then there’s the memorable Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler (both played by Armie Hammer, with Josh Pence doing duty as a body double). The Winklevi, as Mark calls them, are blond vikings on the Harvard rowing crew and, in their eyes, the originators of Facebook. They were the ones who asked Mark to help them build a Harvard computer-dating service. They all successfully sued for a piece of the pie they claim that Mark the Judas screwed them out of when he took his idea to Silicon Valley and global dominance. Not a drop of blood is spilled in The Social Network, but you can’t miss the scar tissue. As advertised, it’s a tale of sex, money, genius and betrayal. But can a script based on what Zuckerberg calls “fiction” dig out the truth? The film’s maverick producer, Scott Rudin, paraphrasing a line from Sorkin’s A Few Good Men, argues that “there is no such thing as the truth.” He has a point. That’s why Sorkin, using research compiled by journalist Ben Mezrich for his book The Accidental Billionaires, written concurrently with the script, went to court depositions of Zuckerberg, Saverin and the Winklevi and created a fact-based structure that gives the movie multiple points of view. The Rashomon idea is inspired, and Fincher directs it with thrilling cinematic fervor. How? By effectively giving each character his own Facebook page. Watch the movie and decide who you want to add as a friend. ## Trending Stories [New Edition Won the Rock Hall Fan Vote, But Won't Be Inducted — Here's Why](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/new-edition-rock-hall-fan-vote-inducted-1235546734/) [Kacey Musgraves, Jack White, Sarah Palin, the Internet Roast Trump for Bonkers AI Jesus Post](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/trump-jesus-kacey-musgraves-sarah-palin-meme-1235547021/) [BTS Is Back on Top: ‘We Have to Push It to the Edge’](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/bts-reuniting-new-album-arirang-interview-1235544625/) [What You Need to Know About the Automatic Military Draft](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/will-there-be-a-military-draft-1235546711/) It won’t be easy. Sorkin and Fincher come down hard on these characters, without skimping on complexity and sympathy. Eisenberg delivers a tour de force, nimbly negotiating Sorkin’s rat-a-tat dialogue and revealing how alienation and loneliness actually fuel Mark’s ambition. More crucially, Eisenberg lets us see the chinks in Mark’s armor, unearthing long-buried feelings when Napster co-founder Sean Parker ([Justin Timberlake](https://www.rollingstone.com/artist/justin-timberlake)) enters the scene, ready to take Facebook to the next level even if it means leaving Eduardo behind as roadkill. Timberlake is phenomenal, a revelation, even. You expect him to nail Sean’s charming hustle, and he does, working a restaurant meeting with Mark and Eduardo like a twentysomething Dr. Evil. “A million dollars isn’t cool,” he says. “You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.” Sean, with a rep for drugs and very young women, sinks his hooks in. He’s a seductive Iago to Mark’s ego-bruised Othello. 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Readable Markdown	[Skip to main content](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/the-social-network-113030/#pagetop) ## The Social Network ![ph](https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/rs-199657-placeholder.jpg?w=1401&h=934&crop=1) Here’s a poke to users and nonusers of Facebook: The Social Network isn’t some yawny visual aid on how the website grew from a few hundred users at Harvard in 2004 to a 2010 global reach of half a billion. The Social Network is a hard-charging beast of a movie with a full tank of creative gas that keeps it humming from start to finish (hell of a middle, too). Sure, it gives you the facts about how then-Harvard undergrad [Mark Zuckerberg](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/mark-zuckerberg/) (a never-better [Jesse Eisenberg](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/jesse-eisenberg/)) made billions by helping technology win the battle against actual human contact. But it’s also about the nation of narcissists we’ve become, reshaping who we are on Facebook in the hope of being friended by other users who may or may not be lying their asses off. Bracingly smart, brutally funny and acted to perfection without exception, The Social Network lights up a dim movie sky with flares of startling brilliance. Director [David Fincher](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/david-fincher/) ([Fight Club](https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/fight-club-96171/), [Seven](https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/seven-94633/), [Zodiac](https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/zodiac-115877/)) puts his visual mastery to work on the verbal pyrotechnics in the dynamite, dick-swinging script by Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing), and they both do the best and ballsiest work of their careers. The Social Network gets you drunk on movies again. It deserves to go viral. In the film’s wow of an opener, set in 2003, Sorkin speculatively places Mark at a campus bar, where he is driving his girlfriend nuts by avoiding eye contact, juggling a dozen topics at once and ignoring her reaction to virtually everything. She is Erica, and as played like a gathering storm by Rooney Mara, winner of the coveted title role in Fincher’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, she is steaming. It’s a setup for disaster: tech nerd versus the real live girl from Boston University he uses to unload on. Fed up with his condescension and his obsession with getting into one of Harvard’s elite “final clubs,” Erica calls him an asshole and splits. A shattered Mark returns to the dorm he shares with Dustin Moskovitz (Joseph Mazzello) and Chris Hughes (Patrick Mapel), and, beer in hand, blogs out his festering rage, attacking Erica as a flat-chested bitch, hacking into photo files of female Harvard undergrads and ranking them on a hotness scale. Out of anger over being socially rejected, a social network is born. ## Editor’s picks Who gets the credit/blame? There’s no doubt Mark is the CEO of a Facebook complex currently valued at \$25 billion. But don’t forget his BFF, Brazilian student Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield), who provided the business plan and early financing. And then there’s the memorable Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler (both played by Armie Hammer, with Josh Pence doing duty as a body double). The Winklevi, as Mark calls them, are blond vikings on the Harvard rowing crew and, in their eyes, the originators of Facebook. They were the ones who asked Mark to help them build a Harvard computer-dating service. They all successfully sued for a piece of the pie they claim that Mark the Judas screwed them out of when he took his idea to Silicon Valley and global dominance. Not a drop of blood is spilled in The Social Network, but you can’t miss the scar tissue. As advertised, it’s a tale of sex, money, genius and betrayal. But can a script based on what Zuckerberg calls “fiction” dig out the truth? The film’s maverick producer, Scott Rudin, paraphrasing a line from Sorkin’s A Few Good Men, argues that “there is no such thing as the truth.” He has a point. That’s why Sorkin, using research compiled by journalist Ben Mezrich for his book The Accidental Billionaires, written concurrently with the script, went to court depositions of Zuckerberg, Saverin and the Winklevi and created a fact-based structure that gives the movie multiple points of view. The Rashomon idea is inspired, and Fincher directs it with thrilling cinematic fervor. How? By effectively giving each character his own Facebook page. Watch the movie and decide who you want to add as a friend. ## Trending Stories It won’t be easy. Sorkin and Fincher come down hard on these characters, without skimping on complexity and sympathy. Eisenberg delivers a tour de force, nimbly negotiating Sorkin’s rat-a-tat dialogue and revealing how alienation and loneliness actually fuel Mark’s ambition. More crucially, Eisenberg lets us see the chinks in Mark’s armor, unearthing long-buried feelings when Napster co-founder Sean Parker ([Justin Timberlake](https://www.rollingstone.com/artist/justin-timberlake)) enters the scene, ready to take Facebook to the next level even if it means leaving Eduardo behind as roadkill. Timberlake is phenomenal, a revelation, even. You expect him to nail Sean’s charming hustle, and he does, working a restaurant meeting with Mark and Eduardo like a twentysomething Dr. Evil. “A million dollars isn’t cool,” he says. “You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.” Sean, with a rep for drugs and very young women, sinks his hooks in. He’s a seductive Iago to Mark’s ego-bruised Othello. It’s a role to die for, and Timberlake the mesmerizer just crushes it. ## Related Content Note to Oscar: You need to step up big time for Garfield, who plays Eduardo with a vulnerability that raises the emotional stakes in a movie that is built on ice cool, a fact reflected in the haunting visuals achieved digitally by gifted cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth and the hypnotic musical road map laid out by [Trent Reznor](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/trent-reznor/) and [Atticus Ross](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/atticus-ross/). Was Mark jealous that the Harvard final club that rejected him accepted Eduardo? Keep your eyes on Garfield — he’s shatteringly good, the soul of a film that might otherwise be without one. The Social Network is the movie of the year. But Fincher and Sorkin triumph by taking it further. Lacing their scathing wit with an aching sadness, they define the dark irony of the past decade. The final image of solitary Mark at his computer has to resonate for a generation of users (the drug term seems apt) sitting in front of a glowing screen pretending not to be alone. - [TV & Movies](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/) - [TV & Movies Reviews](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/) ### More News
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