‘The Social Network’ is an epic, yet intimate, story

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The first thing you want to do after seeing the docudrama nicknamed “The Facebook Movie” is go online. You can’t wait to find out more about the real people and the facts behind the founding of the transformative Web portal that it depicts.

This immediate craving for a keyboard — and to know more about inventor and multibillionaire Mark Zuckerberg — means three things about “The Social Network,” a career-topping achievement from Hollywood masters, director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin.

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