The Social Network

The Social Network is a film about the founding of social networking and internet sensation, Facebook. Growing up when Facebook started and having it escalate so dramatically in the past 4 years, it’s only natural theirs a demand for Hollywood feature film. Or was David Fincher leaching on the franchise that is Facebook. There are clear themes throughout the film, girls, power and money. Whether this is factual or not, is another issue, resulted from the 2010 film ‘The Social Network’ The film starts with high pace scene in which Mark Zuckerberg creates a website called ‘facematch’ due his bitter breakup. This involves intense hacking skills, code breaking and algorithms. This scene sets the speed, intelligence and concept of networking for the whole film.  

Through out the film there is a juxtaposition of time with the current lawsuits and the creation of Facebook. As the audience, we are drawn more into the plot and characters. The lawsuit scenes become less frequent. This is because we become more interested with the friendship between Mark and Eduardo as it’s the only relationship we truly crave and support. It is only till the timeline catches up with it’s self that we find out the result of the lawsuit.

We then re visit the initial sub plot of Erica Albright which suggests that girls and women where a key issue involving the making of Facebook. Especially as the preliminary site was to ‘rate’ girls after his hurtful spilt with girlfriend. Another inspiration for the site was the idea of relationship status. In his words “Relationship status, interested in. This is what drives life at collage. Are you having sex or aren’t you, it’s why people take certain classes and sit where they sit, and do what they do, and add some centre. You know, that’s what’s Facebooks going to be about, people are going to log on because after all the cake and watermelon theirs a chance their actually gonna meet a girl.” The real, Mark Zuckerberg resents the female motive and quotes, “I started Facebook to improve the world , and make it a more transparent place…this movie portrays me as someone who built Facebook so I could meet girl”  Others say the creation of Facebook was a lot more boring and quotidian than that.

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