This film is adapted from the real story of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. It tells how this talented Harvard student created the "Facemash" website with his talent overnight after being dumped by his girlfriend. The comparison and evaluation of girls in the school caused a huge disturbance at one time. Later, his actions attracted the attention of the backbone of the students in the "Roast Pig Club", so he invited him to create a social network. Using this inspiration, Mark created the "The Facebook" website within a few weeks. The website has received unprecedented praise and success. As the scale continues to expand, more and more people and more and more regions have joined this Websites and social networking have entered people's lives. However, on the other hand, Mark also gradually lost his friends and his life...
Although the film is 2 hours long, the director's high-speed shots and lines, and gorgeous and fast editing But it makes people dizzy and out of breath. The rhythm of the movie is very fast, almost pulling the nerves of the audience and rushing forward. Perhaps those who have seen it will be surprised by the eloquent machine gun-like speeches of the characters in the movie and the smooth and clean picture switching. David Fincher once again used the movie itself to interpret his understanding of the lens, “Many people think that there are many kinds of lenses, I think there are only two kinds of lenses, right or wrong”. This film once again brought the director's precise plot control, screen cutting and scene switching to the extreme.
The film is still based on the theme that David Fincher has always preferred, a reflection of reality distortion and the dark side of human nature. Obviously, compared with the cynical and fierce condemnation in the early works such as "The Seven Deadly Sins", he is now much calmer and more objective. Of course, the edges and corners are much less, and the colors are much bleak.
The founding of Facebook is an important event in the Internet world in recent years, because it marks the deeper penetration of the Internet into our daily lives. 91% of the users in the film became obsessed with Facebook the first time they used it. On campus, it has become the subject of people's daily chats. Everyone will say, "I went back to Facebook for you". People go online every day and spend the longest time on Facebook. Facebook has become a part of people's lives.
Traditional social interaction must be based on face-to-face communication. The communication of body, language, eyes and facial expressions helps us get to know each other and build relationships with them. However, modern people are obviously shy to express, especially with the birth of more and more otaku and otaku, social interaction has become passive and embarrassing. Facebook designed for this situation for the first time. Everyone has their own homepage, their own tags, emotional state, etc., which are published on the Internet at a glance. If you are interested in someone, as long as you add friends to each other, you can get to know each other in the virtual through tags one by one, and then become friends. The banner of modern life is to make life simpler, but although everything is clear and concise, I doubt whether this makes our lives more fulfilling and simple.
The creator of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, is a person with very poor personal relationships and not good at dealing with interpersonal relationships. However, he has created a new way of communication and is highly respected. This is an irony in itself. Is Facebook's true meaning deepening understanding between people or alienating people's relationships? The most critical aspect of modern civilization is that it isolates the communication between people. As a substitute for social interaction, Facebook is spreading hotly all over the world, even where there is no road access. However, in a sense, this has become a social fast food in disguise. Modern life does not make people spend a lot of time cooking dinner, so fast food has changed people's lives, filling their stomachs, but bringing a series of diseases and lack of nutrition. Modern life also makes people not spend a lot of time to maintain good intimacy with friends, so online social Facebook has changed people’s lives, but it has simplified and surfaced personal relationships. In addition to simple labels, we understand each other. But it's very shallow.
The portrayal of the film’s protagonist Mark Zuckerberg is the key to the whole film. After all, this is still a biographical work. Mark is a genius with a very high IQ. Unfortunately, like other geniuses, his EQ is very low, and daily ethics and other norms are almost worthless in his eyes.
In the dialogue between the opening and his girlfriend, he can chatter about a few irrelevant things at the same time, and completely ignore his girlfriend's feelings, completely self-centered. His girlfriend abandoned him. He wrote a lot of his girlfriend's personal privacy on his blog like a child, and he slandered him a lot. Working with the twin brothers, I wanted to develop Facebook together, but dumped them halfway through, making my own, and using my own set of weird logic to make myself feel that this is justified. My only friend, from the beginning to the end, contributed a lot to him, sacrificed a lot to help his career development, but in the end he was ruthlessly abandoned when he was of no value.
Mark is a person who doesn't understand personal feelings. He is a person who completely ignores or has no personal relationship. Friendship and love may be nothing in his eyes. He just lives in his own world, chatting endlessly with people he knows about his preferences such as the Internet, ideas, etc., completely ignoring anyone's feelings. Perhaps, he also has feelings, but his understanding of feelings is different from that of normal people. In the face of a friend who turns against each other and his girlfriend who is glaring at him, he will always have a confused and dull look on his face. As he himself said, "I am not a bad person", he did not intentionally hurt anyone, but he was "striving to walk in the direction of a bastard" because his ignorance of personnel destroyed all of his Relatives and friends.
At the end of the film, he sits alone in his office, watching the Facebook page that has spread all over the world. It is silent. The world has established a virtual social network through his creation, but his founder has lost all communication. He silently entered the name of his girlfriend, found her on the website, and then carefully sent out the application to add friends, and then refreshed it over and over again, hoping to look forward to a miracle...for the world, he created a business miracle, For himself, he couldn't wait for the first person.
Loneliness or loneliness, loneliness is a symptom of modern life. We can temporarily seek replacement and anesthesia, but we can never find the kind of frank and simple emotions. The man who just wanted to buy underwear for his wife created the "Victoria's Secret" on a whim, but he eventually jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge after hundreds of millions of dollars. Perhaps, when he succeeded in business, he lost the original Purpose, lost his wife.
David Fincher once again keenly caught this ill of modern society and showed it sharply. There is no preaching, no desperate resistance, but a precise analysis and presentation of this problem. He just let a man who got everything and lost everything refresh the webpage alone, and then quietly ended the movie.
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