Ever since Colorado Springs -- the anti-tax Mecca of the west -- refused to raise taxes to fill its $28 million budget shortfall and instead began cutting services, conservatives and liberals alike have been tuning in to see just how well a city with bare-bones government services could survive. Thus far, one-third of the street lights are off and buses no longer run nights and weekends; public pools, parks, bathrooms, and community centers are closed, and overextended cops log crimes over the phone.

In March of this year, Facebook surpassed Google as the most visited website in the United States. Its rise has been so meteoric that few remember how it began or what life was like without it. Enter The Social Network, the film which will forever link the ever-expanding global phenomenon to its morally questionable beginnings.

The problem with making a movie about Facebook is that everyone knows how it ends. We all have Facebook profiles, and at 26, Mark Zuckerberg is a wunderkind turned billionaire CEO. But The Social Network doesn't treat this as a problem; it runs with it.