The Social Network * * *

The Social Network is a gripping drama about the youngest CEO Mark Zuckerberg who founded 'facebook' which moves in three parallel shots, a flashback and two law suits. After 'Inception', the directors have given up the practice of showing things plain and simple.And it absolutely works. That's how you tell a story. I mean it may not be so catchy and attention-seeking if shown in a simple way.

Mark studies at Harvard is into computers,hacking,sites and all that jazz.Getting insulted by a bitch(as he put it), he decides to take an e-revenge posting about that 'bitch' and then develops a page which asks the user to rate one of the two faces,hot. This pages feeds from the databases of all the houses at Harvard which Mark hacks and calls all this kid stuff.The page receives so many hits that eventually it crashes the Harvard server and Mark gets a probation.But then all legends are first notorious.

A gang of 6 foot 5 twins and a loser who also were planning something similar for the Harvard campus try to make Mark work for them. But after they meet once to discuss the idea Mark grounds himself and works on the idea himself to launch facebook. Violated by this, the gang decides to sue Mark.Meanwhile, Mark meets a guy who had done something similar in his days and ditches his best bud Eduardo, whom he had made CFO at the first place which explains the tag line of the movie.You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.After this, Eduardo also sues him.But,Mark Zuckerberg, the man who owns this firm which is now of 25 billion dollors of worth is the winner.As it was only he who went ahead and created facebook and non of his other mates who sued him.

David Fincher's direction is pretty cannot-take-yours-eyes-off awesome and the parallel portrayal just keeps us all drowned in the magic that he has created to tell a tale which will surely inspire millions.Reading about Zuckerberg on wiki is a different thing and seeing the magic right from the inception in an super-engaging flick is all together a superb experience.
May be if they had named this Facebook, it would have generated a greater revenue but what's in a name. If you make a film worth an applause then even if you name it shit(read orkut), it will get the applause.