“Social Network” is smart, lively, well-acted and -- this is key --  raises questions and issues that are both timeless and totally of the moment.

Oh, sure, you probably spent time palavering after seeing “Inception” this summer, but that was trying to figure out just what the hell actually happened. How many dream levels were there again? And why were they mucking around in all that snow near the end?

In a way, “Social Network” seems almost a throwback to the great movies of the late 1960s and ‘70s. It taps into the zeitgeist. It’s about what’s happening now. Right now. And it has a viewpoint -- well, actually, a bunch of them.

In the same way that “Bonnie and Clyde,” “Taxi Driver” and “The Godfather” were all provocative films, so is “Social Network.” Like those earlier movies (but without the torrent of bullets and actual blood), it raises questions about who’s good, what’s right and the definition of success in America.

Source: http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/social-network-truth-justice-american-way-and-oh-yeah-mark-zuckerberg-21186