Social Network - Gripping!

A sense of surreal & eerie engulfs me as I try to review my take on ‘social network’ – a movie chronicling the life and times of the genius who created a platform called facebook – like it, hate it, think its voyeuristic, whatever … but u can’t be indifferent to this awesome phenomenon!
Yours truly is an unabashed facebook fan – c’mon people – it connects you to your world of friends & you get wished on your birthday, by people who probably didn’t even realize you were alive, till they noticed the left side of their facebook screen & were alerted to the fact that u were born this day, a zillion years (no specifics pls!) ago!
“Social Network” narrates the story of how Mark Zuckerberg, played brilliantly by Jesse Eisenberg, created facebook. Not such a simple tale, given the layers of complex emotions; betrayal of a best friend ( Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin), that too, the kind of dosti everyone craves to have at least once in a lifetime; whether he did or did not technically cheat the trio, (cheap thrills that one of ‘em was an Indian!) who claimed to be the original inventors of facebook; and the million dollar question which is what the movie is all about – WHY he did what he did & what made him tick?
Like facebook, Mark is someone you’ll either love, hate, misunderstand … but you can’t be indifferent to the guy. Even at his obnoxious worst, you still feel a sense of loyalty to the guy who is almost family to you today, given that facebook is part of my extended parivaar.
Justin Timberlake, as the sly, sleazy, ruthless & ambitious creator of napster is surprisingly good! More ct’s from the fact that he was the one who suggested dropping of the ‘the’ & that’s how ‘the facebook’ came to be simply known as ‘facebook!’
Given my dismal academic track record, the movie offered my only possible peep into the hallowed portals of Harvard!
Some gyaan too – despite all his wealth, fame, success … the closing image is of Mark, lonely & insecure, desperately waiting for a girl, to accept his ‘friend request!’
Haunting, gripping, ‘social network’ is a story well told, about a life quite extraordinary!