The Social Network is truly THE movie of the year. If you haven’t seen it yet, you have until Sunday to right this wrong. I mean, just look at everything it’s been nominated for: Best Picture, Actor in Leading Role, Cinematography, Directing, Film Editing, Music (original score), Sound Mixing, and Writing; it never ends. But what makes The Social Network such the show stopper? The reality of it.

There are more than 400 million people who have a Facebook page. Director David Fincher portrayed young Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) and Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield) traveling through the road taken–with greed, betrayal, and lawsuits; the life of an ingenious businessman is never dull, especially if you have a bag of coke on you.

I wonder if Mark Zuckerberg can spell rejected because he got his manhood handed to him.

“Anti-hero” Mark Zuckerberg gets a brutal castration by his newly former girlfriend Erica Albright (Rooney Mara.) From his pompous and arrogant remarks, I’m surprised Albright didn’t kick him where the sun doesn’t shine. If I were her, I would aim where it hurts.

With rejection as his motivation, and the cause of a chain event, Zuckerberg goes back to his dorm, Kirkland, at Harvard university and shows his ability to slay a person’s ego as a computer programmer. In two hours, Zuckerberg creates a webpage, with the help of best friend Eduardo Saverin and his formula, called Facemash. It is a brief-lived Harvard-specific rating site that operated ranking photographs of girls taken from Harvard’s online face book. Writing on his blog simultaneously, Zuckerberg hacked into each dorms’ firewall in minutes and created the rating site. (If only he could hack into my Calculus teacher’s account and give me an A.) Within four hours the website receives 22,000 hits and traffics Harvard’s Internet system crashing it’s server ultimately. Not only does this make him legendary but it also puts him on the map, as well as a few hit lists from the girls that he degraded.

Harvard security, and board of disciplinary actions put Zuckerberg on a six-month academic probation. That restriction only leads him to pursue academia faux pas even more. This act of rebellion leads Zuckerberg to be noticed by the elite twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (both brothers played by Armie Hammer.) Think Jack and the Bean Stalk; no, scratch that, think Abercrombie & Fitch, add a foot, and then multiply it by 2. Congratulations you have just met the Winklevi (plural for Winklevoss, courtesy of Zuckerberg’s big brain). The two future Olympic qualifiers approach Zuckerberg with an idea of creating a social network pertaining only to Harvard students: “Harvard Connection.” (Side note: I don’t know about you, but Harvard Connection reminds me of that commercial with the girl in her pajamas singing “Education Connection.”) Zuckerberg agreed to assist, but really wanted the idea to himself. Classic strategy, if your opponent has an idea and is stupid enough to tell you, then you respectfully take the idea and make it worth big bucks.

So what does Zuckerberg do? Naturally, he gets in touch with Saverin to create an even better version of “Harvard Connection” called “The Facebook”; yes, it had the “The.” Within weeks The Facebook page was created and already buzzing around Harvard. The Winklevoss twins were completely out of the loop until they saw the page e-mailed to their colleague Divya Narendra’s, (Max Minghella), girlfriend. Imagine being in California and witnessing a wildfire. Now, multiply that by 10. That’s how word spread of The Facebook.

Needing investors, Zuckerberg and Saverin meet with business men who will help them get The Facebook well-known. Here comes their knight in shining armor, Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake) creator of Napster. It was eminent of Zuckerberg’s man-crush on Parker the minute he walked into the restaurant for their meeting. Pilots have nothing on this guys, that’s how far he’s braodcasting. Saverin, on the other hand, had different thoughts. To him, Parker seemed like a no-good parasite who was looking to munch off of Zuckerberg and Facebook.

Here’s what Parker is like: Parties. Booze. Women.

As hype built up even more, the Winklevoss brothers felt more and more outraged with Zuckerberg and his theft of a social network. Rearing to hundreds of thousands of Facebook viewers, the brothers filed a cease and desist warrant. Scary. If I ever want to know how to make someone pee in their pants, I will make sure I cross Winklevoss off my list; Barney would be more suited to scare someone. Lucky for them, when that didn’t work they filed a full-fledged lawsuit.

Doubts flare up between Saverin and Zuckerberg due to Parker and his influence enough for Zuckerberg to blindside Saverin. Saverin, back stabbed by his best friend and bombarded by crazy girlfriend, Christy Lee (Brenda Song), also files a lawsuit for ownership of Facebook when he was ripped off of his 30% and gets rid of crazy potential stalker girlfriend.

At the end, the audience is left with wondering the bigger meaning. Friendship, lies, and how much Facebook is really worth. Not a comedy–a love story, a thriller, a scary movie, but an important lesson learned in the real world. Me: I couldn’t keep my jaw off the ground.

As a person not interested in spending $10 on a movie that will not make me laugh, or make me fall in love with the hero, I found this movie quite entertaining. I can be a little judgmental on movies that don’t have Ashton Kutcher, Brad Pitt, Mathew McConaughey, Jude Law, or George Clooney (as a small representation), but I think that this movie is what the Oscars’ are looking for: sappy true stories. I am glad Jesse Eisenberg and David Fincher proved me wrong.

P.S. If I were Brenda Song, I would not go psycho on someone as cute as Andrew Garfield. Just Saying.