The Social Network which I incidentally watched on the flight won major awards at the Golden Globes on Sunday and worthily so. It was a thoroughly engaging, enterprising and entertaining look into the past life of Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg. Kudos to Aaron Sorkin, the writer of the film whose script was just tremendous.

Sorkin, who has films like A Few Good Men and the political drama The West Wing, to his credit has this rare pedigree of writing his characters that joust about absolutely insignificant topics. The razor-sharp repartee is almost ambiguous until you realize its irony during the course of the movie. As for example, the whimsical discussion at the beginning of The Social Network when Eisenberg and his girlfriend discuss finals clubs at Harvard. The conversation very quickly becomes an argument with the latter breaking up with the former proposing a platonic relationship instead and thereafter Mark Zuckerberg declaring “I don’t want friends”.

Pretty ironical huh! for the creator of the biggest friend network in this world.