The idea is the thing.
And - for the creatively-minded - they tend to be a dime-a-dozen.
Such is the blessed curse bestowed on society's true artists and visionaries.
What to do, when there is no creative well, to draw on?
The unscrupulous steal the commodity, by diabolical means if necessary, natch.
And so, with this in mind, the tawdry tale of the Facebook phenomenon unfolds on the luminous silver screen in all its conivving, deceitful, under-handed, back-stabbing detail.
In this intense, well-written drama by Aaron Sorkin, the audience is treated to a modern-day tragedy where friends are just numbers, clicks all-powerful, and betrayal a sweet revenge in Silicon Valley best served up cold on an internet browser.
And what transpires along the insightful journey?
A celebrated nerd (Mark Zuckerberg) - once-lauded for allegedly drumming up the Facebook concept - is exposed for the worm that he is and his worthy ethical-minded adversaries exonerated.
What a morality tale!
The Social Network is slick, powerful, and bang-on - particularly in respect to its depiction of the misguided (troubled) student body of this era - who crave recognition (and acceptance) from their peers at whatever cost.
For Zuckerberg it was a lesson in the ironies of life.
Although he would eventually rustle up 500 million facebook members on websites around the globe, he ended up a lonely billionaire, unable to fathom the true nature of friendship.
Undoubedly, that is why Facebook has turned out to be the most superficial social network on the Internet.
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