“The Social Network,” 29 December 2010, theater. This is a well-made (Kevin Spacey produced) film about the origins of Facebook, the personal betrayals and the programming and college scenes. It’s also Mark Zukerberg as genius-nerd asshole or genius-nerd social moron or genius-nerd with Aspergers Syndrome or a genius-nerd idiot savant asshole with Aspergers. Is he like that or just played like that?. I don’t know, but it’s a very good movie that is very well acted and paced with the frenetic rhythms of a world perpetually transformed by the internet and social networking. The acting was excellent all round including, to my surprise, Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, creator of Napster and Silicon Valley-wild man. Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield were especially fine as Zukerberg and Eduardo Saverin, his original partner and only friend. Zukerberg is played as a monomaniacal greedy powerfreaking social misfit who, like Parker, knows that no rules or social conventions apply to him. In this, he reminds me of other very smart rich people I know. And, sad to say, he’s right: his skills, the product he produces, and the money allow him to opt out of those conventions. He can do what he wants. Set in flashbacks played through suits against Zukerberg. It’s also a total guy film: women are just acquisitions, the objective representation of their success. There are no female programmers. Silicon Valley is played as the land where all are beautiful party animals, as are all the women at Harvard and pretty much anywhere in the movie. The opening images of girls at parties, bussed in like cattle and used, throwing themselves at Harvard guys, and men voting on girls is disgusting, really disgusting. See this film.