review: the social network

Okay, so this isn't particularly Australian. Sorry.  I saw the movie here, does that count?  No?  Nevermind then.  Forget the review.  Don't read it, don't bother.  Waste of your time.  Ciao.

This was a really interesting movie.  Thought provoking.  Well scripted, well acted, well executed.  Actually, this isn't so much a review as a list of things I'd like to discuss about it.  Feel free to chime in anytime now.

(I don't think there's any real spoilers here.  Maybe?  It'll probably just make more sense if you see the movie first.  But whatever.  I guess don't read if you don't want to tinge your cinematic experience at all prematurely.)

--What was Mark's childhood like?  His parents?  Any siblings?  How did he develop the personality he has?
--How much of the story is true?  Where do the lines of fiction and non-fiction blur?  How did they decide who's angle to tell it from?  Who to make the good guys and bad guys?  What sort of money was involved?  (And no, the answer to that last one is not meant to be "the US dollar.")
--What happened to Jessica, the girlfriend who dumped him in the opening scene?  Did she actually accept his friend request later?  And the time he wanted to talk to her alone, what did he actually intend to say?
--So was the idea for facebook really Mark's or really the twins'?  Who actually deserves the credit?
--How's the Harvard president feel now?
--Interesting that the entire initial concept was just Harvard, and that was its selling point.  And then it became just Ivy League.  Then just Ivy League and their kind.  Then just universities.  Then everybody.  (Okay, so that one's not a question.)

I was trying to think if there's any difference between how Australians use facebook and how Americans use facebook.  I thought that'd be interesting to blog about all.  But I'm not coming up with anything.  I think people worldwide use it really extremely similarly.  You?