20 Greatest Movie Moments Of The 2010s
7. The Social Network: 0.03%
This razor-sharp drama about the founding of Facebook is another 2010s classic that turns the origins of Facebook into a beautifully-done modern parable about how the endless drive for success and society's obsession with technology destroys personal relationships and it uses this amazing scene to hammer these themes home.
Towards the end of the film, Facebook's co-founder Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield) discovers that in a new business deal his share in the company has been diluted down to just 0.03%, essentially cutting him loose from what he helped to create. As a result, the friendship between him and Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) is ruined and Mark loses his only friend thanks to his relentless desire for money and his unsavoury business practices.
This intense, haunting and goosebump-inducing scene is phenomenal dramatic writing that showcases the film's writer, Aaron Sorkin, at the peak of his powers, while the acting from Andrew Garfield, Jesse Eisenberg and even Justin Timberlake (playing Sean Parker) is also fantastic. Perhaps the best thing about this scene is that, since the film's themes of technology and loneliness are becoming more and more relevant with time, it's only getting better and better with each passing year.