Every week, Ultimate Movie Year looks back into the past to highlight the best film that came out that weekend.

"The Social Network"
Released Oct 1, 2010
Directed by David Fincher

A genius but a resentful young man. An ambitious immigrant looking to assimilate. A charming entrepreneur prone to paranoid fixations. Three men of high society unaccustomed to losing. And at the beginning, a young woman tired of being treated as less than.

There have been a few better movies, but "The Social Network" is the defining American film of the decade. David Fincher's 2010 masterpiece may have started as "that Facebook movie," but its story of aggressive capitalism motivated by the perceived insults and restrictions internalized by white men has transformed subtext into substantial text, in capital letters, with several exclamation points added to make sure nobody could ignore the message, and the men who deliver them.