Here we are on the penultimate day of our Best Movies of 2010 - and what a great year for film it has been.
Just piped to the number one spot is The Social Network, which is already doing well on the awards circuit - but here at FemaleFirst it will have to settle for second place.
When a film version of Facebook was announced, it didn't strike wonder into the hearts and souls of the world. No one envisaged the quality of Aaron Sorkin's script and no one could imagine Justin Timberlake being one of the stand-out stars.
That's exactly what happened, why anyone could cast doubt on David Fincher, the director of Se7en and Fight Club, is anyone's guess but he made one of the stand-out films of 2010 and has recently won a number of awards by the National Board of Review. They awarded the film with Film Of The Year, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay.
The film is based on the book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich, which was adapted by Aaron Sorkin.
It starts from the beginning of Facebook, from the beginnings as a simple project, through to the controversy between Mark Zuckerberg and the colleagues at Harvard who believed he stole the idea from them and then the subsequent lawsuit between Mark Zuckerberg and his best friend Edaurdo Saverin.
It's with Sorkin's adapted screenplay that The Social Network really shines, it's fast-paced and each character bounces off each other with flair and wit. Jesse Eisenberg, who, for a time, was looking like the next Michael Cera (the geeky go-to guy), comes out of his shell here as Mark Zuckerberg and although he still needs to be the geeky guy, he shows a side to him which is much more than just that.
He is clever and he knows he is, he has an arrogance about him, which in turn becomes one of his downfalls.
His best friend Eduardo Saverin is played by Andrew Garfield, who, in the last year, has managed to come from nowhere into being one of the most talked about newcomers around.
It's in The Social Network that he shows off why he's being tipped for big things, not least as he is about to appear as Spiderman in the upcoming reboot of the franchise.
The surprise of the film has to be Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, he is effortlessly cool and shows what Zuckerberg is heading toward. He also acts as the turning point in the friendship between Eisenberg and Garfield.
Critics have hailed this film as the film of the 2000s, the film which sums up exactly how society is, and they're all completely right.
The craze of social networking is one of the major cultural changes of recent years, and this film sums up where the craze came from and why it's staying.
Fincher did the same during the 90s with Fight Club, a film which tapped into the obsession of commercialism.
The Social Network is easily one of the top films of the year and you won't find many better, David Fincher can rarely do any wrong and this just adds to the long list of reasons why.
FemaleFirst James Butlin
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