The opening of "Social Network" is very attractive.
Over five minutes into the scene, David Fincher filmed 99 times.
Zuckerberg and his girlfriend are dating in the bar.
The background music has been playing "Ball and Biscuit": "You may not care about me now, but you will care about it soon, then I won't be able to kill you. 』
This scene is typically opened with an "incentive event".
Zuckerberg was dumped by his girlfriend, which became his initial motivation for a series of subsequent revenge actions and even the founding of Facebook.
Let's take a look at this scene.
In this movie, David Fincher completely abandoned the previous gorgeous mirroring, such as the "Space Long Shots" of "Terror Space" or the restless images of "Fight Club", and instead watched the film quietly with a steady lens. Characters in.
The objectivity of the lens exposed the attitude of the creator.
He hopes to give the judgement power to the audience.
So that he would constantly remind Jesse Eisenberg on the set: "Don't make facial expressions! Don't make emoticons! 』
Zuckerberg in the film is a person with high IQ and low EQ.
He is arrogant, sensitive and vulnerable, he messed up the date.
His girlfriend left with anger, and before leaving, said cruelly: "You may have a lot to do in the IT world, but you are destined to be alone in life. 』
This sentence almost predicted the fate behind Zuckerberg.
During the entire dating process, although David Fincher did not show off his skills, he still used subtle lens language to show us the gradual distance between the two.
Look, this is the beginning of the date:
The camera was reversed in a group, explaining the position of the two.
Although the two people said different things, they were still harmonious and their relationship was closer.
But when the appointment goes to the end:
The relationship between the two has become far apart.
From the picture, they almost pushed each other out of their own world.
Until his girlfriend finally couldn't bear it and said cruel words:
At this time, Zuckerberg was completely out of the picture.
And this is a shot that is almost riding a shaft (talking to the mirror), substituting the audience into Zuckerberg's position and feeling the oncoming crit.
After his girlfriend left, Zuckerberg was left at a loss.
At this time, an extremely stunning shot appeared:
David Fincher specially arranged for someone to pass by Zuckerberg and projected the projection on him.
This projection is like the shadow cast in his heart by his girlfriend's departure.
The boy looked like a water stop, but he was really lost in his heart.
After that, he put his bag on his back, left the bar, and walked back to the dormitory with his head down.
The shooting along the way is also very interesting.
David Fincher keeps Zuckerberg's trajectory from right to left, bringing disharmony in perception through "reverse reading order" .
However, in actual shooting, due to environmental constraints, he could only shoot from left to right, so he asked the actor to put on a hoodie with reversed letters, wait for the film to be completed, and then reverse the picture to complete the final effect.
In addition, the soundtrack also contributed.
The original screenwriter Alan Sorkin suggested using manic rock music to highlight Zuckerberg’s inner anger.
However, Vinci went the other way, specially accompanied by a quiet piano sound, but it further highlighted the undercurrent surging in the character's heart, ready to go.
After that, Zuckerberg returned to the dormitory and began his own revenge.
The most interesting part of "Social Network" is that it is about the success of "virtual social", but this success started with a failure of "real social".
And later in the film, we see that similar social failures are still happening again and again, causing the people around Zuckerberg to leave him one by one.
Girlfriends, friends, partners, spiritual mentors...
Among them, Eduardo and Sean Parker are like the two extremes in Zuckerberg's heart.
The former is conservative, the latter is open; the former believes in traditional economic thinking, and the latter despises everything and has a deep Internet spirit.
Zuckerberg regards Sean Parker as an idol and must part ways with Eduardo.
However, Zuckerberg is different from Sean Parker after all. He is not a complete bastard, as the young female lawyer describes him: "You are not a bastard, you just try too hard to be a bastard. 』
In the end, Eduardo was kicked out of the company, and Sean Parker also left sadly.
Zuckerberg has achieved himself, but the result is: one will succeed.
The dispute between him and his twin brothers is also very interesting.
You can say that Zuckerberg is a rascal who copied other people's ideas.
But behind this, what we see is actually the inherent conceptual difference between the two classes.
The twins were born in the upper class and have deep-rooted elite thinking. So the social networking site they designed just moved the elite clubs online, blocking most people out of the door with high barriers to entry.
This is what Zuckerberg is most uncomfortable with.
When he can only bend in the bicycle room of the Poslane Club and listen to the twin brothers talking about his entrepreneurial ideas, he must have 10,000 horses rushing past.
What's more, the two brothers belonged to the rowing team and were the admiration of ex-girlfriends.
Zuckerberg's Facebook, on the surface, is no different from the twins' Harvard social network.
But in fact, the underlying thinking is completely different.
What Zuckerberg wants to do is a completely "decentralized" social networking site, where everyone is an independent node, and everyone can connect equally and freely.
And decentralization actually means de-elitism.
You can also understand this as another kind of revenge. Zuckerberg angered the twins because he failed to enter the elite club, and then launched a complete subversion of the elite model.
He might even have thought to himself: I just want to play with you, what's the matter?
In any case, this is determined by the natural difference between the two classes.
There is no basis for communication between them, so naturally there is no possibility of cooperation.
To sum up, we can see that on the one hand, "Social Network" has shown us the success history of Facebook, but on the other hand, while the virtual social network is growing step by step, it is the collapse of the real social network.
Zuckerberg ended up lonely.
The last scene of the film is quite interesting.
The subtitles show: By the time the film was released, in 2010, Facebook had 500 million registered users in 207 countries around the world, with a valuation of up to 25 billion U.S. dollars.
However, beside this series of amazing numbers, it was Zuckerberg's tired and lonely face.
Did he really succeed?
In the secular sense, yes.
But what this success brings to him is not satisfaction, but incomparable emptiness.
So he kept refreshing the Facebook page, waiting for his ex-girlfriend to pass his friend request.
After that, the screen went black and the movie ended.
The Beatles' songs kept singing: "Baby, You're a rich man."
A real loneliness tightly wrapped by the virtual network is undoubtedly exposed.
A young man suffering from social barriers has become the most popular social network in the world.
Isn't this the ironiest thing?
It turns out that we are about the same as Zuckerberg.
The difference is that:
When we feel frustrated with reality, we turn on our phones and play a game of Glory of Kings.
Zuckerberg chose to turn on his computer and founded Facebook.
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