The Social Network: my review

The film starts with Mark Zuckerberg's girlfriend dumping him and calling him an "a**hole" followed by Zuckerberg's brilliantly captured lonely walk through the Harvard yard to the Kirkland house.As Mark walks through the lawns, the shot shows a lonely boy playing a violin in the lawn as a couple becomes his only audience.
That's how David Fincher tells the story of Harvard: even if you have no one by your side, you cannot let your dreams run away...you have to aim for the top alone since the top is too narrow to be shared with anyone even if he's your best friend.
What the film shows is that a man requires most of all two things to reach the zenith - a push and a killer instinct. Here the push is provided by the girlfriend and the instinct is one's own.
In today's world you have to be manipulative to have your say. It goes without saying you have to be clever too. Not all 1600 scorers in S.A.T. become millionares, forget billionares.But that's where Mark differs...he knows the world too well to not have his dreams come true.
In a world where everyone looks to bring him down , Mark fights, not a righteous battle but "everything is fair in war" , right?
Performances by Jesse Eisenberg(as Mark) , Andrew Garfield (as Eduardo) and the Winklevoss twins(Josh Pence and Armie Hammer) are worth watching.Justin Timberlake plays his part quite nicely but there are many in hollywood who could have played the part much better.
Background music goes brilliantly with the storyline right from the start to the end(when Beatles say "Baby,you are a rich man").
Direction is top class.Scenes of various courtrooms merge together in a fascinating way which reflect the various hurdles crossing Mark's mind at the same time and how he still remains himself.
But the part which deserves maximum credit is the screenplay.
Just take this....
As everyone keeps demanding their respective claims, Mark says

"If you were the inventors of facebook, you would have invented facebook."

Thanks,
Tirthankar Banerjee.