They ask if he can help them cook up an exclusive social networking site for Harvard kids. His stunt’s so successful that it catches the eye of twin brothers Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss (sly Armie Hammer in both roles), who are everything he’s not: tall, blond, athletic (they’re Olympic rowers), and socially connected. The first time we see Zuckerberg, he’s jawing at his girlfriend, Erica ( Rooney Mara), who tells him, “Dating you is like dating a StairMaster.” When she dumps him, he returns to his resolutely unglamorous Harvard dorm room to exact online revenge against her-and all women. It doesn’t just friend the zeitgeist, it hooks up with it. Boasting an effervescent script by Aaron Sorkin and the taut direction you expect from David Fincher, this tale of an uncool guy’s rise to riches (and notoriety) is one of the rare Hollywood movies that’s actually about the way we live now. Case in point is Mark Zuckerberg ( Jesse Eisenberg), the enigmatic antihero at the center of The Social Network, a smart, funny, vaguely tragic, and unabashedly fictionalized account of the invention of Facebook.
Now, they’re antisocial because they’re not. Movie heroes used to be antisocial because they were cool.
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