Sorkin has found his perfect subject : The Social Network

Never was a big fan of Aaron Sorkin and The West Wing, though because M was an avid viewer I probably saw the equivalent of many shows just by passing through the TV room. My plaint was that all the characters sounded like smart screenwriters - nobody talks that way. But Sorkin has found the perfect subject for him in the geeky and intellectually arrogant Harvard world of The Social Network. These people - from all I know of them - really do talk like Sorkin, and it feels he has perfectly caught the inflections and the caustic syntax of Mark Zuckerberg (credit also to Jesse Eisenberg). Director Fincher who put me into a novacaine coma with Benjamin Button has figured out how to pace a story, too, with a fast narrative and very effective cutting from present (legal depositions against Zuckerberg regarding the provenance of Facebook) to past (as we watch as Zuckerberg step by step conceives the idea [or steals it?] and develops it). He's a horrible but troubled kid - amazingly, we learn not a single fact about his life before Harvard - and though the irony is a bit thick here we come to see the sorrow in his life, the guy who created the world's biggest social network, based on "friending," has not a single friend in his life - at least that's the Zuckerberg of fiction, the movie treads a line between biopic and pure fiction, and makes no attempt to be a true documentary. The tone and the playing is exactly right, down to the small scenes - the two rich jocks coming to Larry Summers and expecting his help is a great moment. Film should win lots of awards and one would hope a wide audience, though the theater was not filled.