SOCIAL for Sex (desire)
Facebook has more than 500 million users and is even more influential than Twitter. Some people concluded that the reason is simple: sex. In the film, Facebook’s first successful appearance was when Zuckerberg uploaded pictures of girls in the school for everyone (mostly boys) to rate. Overnight, the website received a lot of clicks and even blocked the campus network. This allows Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to see the powerful driving force brought by "sex". Facebook makes the dream of getting laid by the otaku within reach, and desire/sex becomes naked, transparent, and at the same time safe and responsible.
This is why the film began with the dating, or debate, between the actor Zuckerberg and his girlfriend. From the very beginning, women left the film and they became objects of desire. Director David Fincher did not put his perspective on the relationship between the protagonist and the woman. The sexual desire symbolized by Facebook is mixed with the desire for success. The three protagonists of the film all seem to be ambitious but do not know where to go. Sean Parker told Zuckerberg in the bar the story of "Victoria's Secret": the creator of this brand just wanted to please his wife, and eventually the brand was sold, but he ended up miserably-this story The moral of is: Without strong enough desire, you can only become a loser. Even short-term success is not important enough. Desire is life, everything. From this point of view, "Social Network" can be called "a youth film that is not a youth film", "an adult film that is not an adult film".
As a result, we see Zuckerberg in "Social Network" eager to succeed, but the reason is very vague: for the money? To be famous? For women? For vanity? He just kept going fast, leaving everything behind. The film presents and reflects on everything that desire and worship desire brings.
SOCIAL for Online (online) is
undeniable, this is an era of the Internet, an era of online. But Hollywood’s response to this was slow and awkward. Except for fable games like "The Matrix", only the hacker images and extremely furtive images in films such as "Operation Swordfish" and "Operation Antitrust" were left. Internet show. What are people thinking in the Internet age? How do they view the Internet? Except for the slightly symbolic performance of science fiction films, drama films rarely face it solidly.
Hollywood rarely shoots biopics of people who are still alive, because they are afraid that they will be inaccurate and difficult to discover. Moreover, the protagonists of biopics tend to focus on politicians, scientists ("Beautiful Mind"), singers, and business tycoons... The protagonist of "Social Network" Mark Zuckerberg is only 26 years old this year, which can be regarded as a Hollywood biopic. The youngest passer. David Fincher keenly grasped this person who can represent the trend of the times, and accurately grasped their unique characteristics.
"Social Network" did not focus on showing the protagonist’s legendary experience, did not follow the inspirational line of the usual biopics, and got rid of the preconceived position and starting point of most biopics to praise and criticize the protagonist. Instead, it adopts decentralization or calling The non-centered narrative attitude shows the protagonist's journey-the protagonist Zuckerberg's right or wrong is completely judged by the audience, and the film does not presuppose his good or bad. You must know that one of the characteristics of the Internet era is decentralization. Today's ascendant cloud computing and cloud storage are also developed based on this characteristic.
We can compare "Social Network" with the immortal classic "Citizen Kane" in film history: he is also a tycoon of the age who has devoted himself to the media; the same multi-angle narrative; the same no pre-determined position; the same as a controversial figure. The fable of an era... It's just that "Social Network" doesn't make a grand narrative, it just presents a lot of life fragments in detail-isn't this also a characteristic of the online era?
SOCIAL for Communicate (Communication)
The key to Facebook's success is to focus on human communication. The first generation of Internet websites still built a platform and provided information, services or goods on it; and now the most successful websites are almost all building a platform for netizens to play by themselves-the so-called WEB2.0, to put it bluntly From WEB1.0 the interaction between people and the network/machine has developed to the interaction between people. But ironically, behind WEB2.0, there are the shadows of geeks who are not good at communicating with others.
"Social Network" is a film about communication, and it is also a film about geek nerds. Geeks like Zuckerberg are keen on computers and the Internet, with superb intelligence, but their emotional intelligence may be very low. They would rather communicate with machines and worship technology than bother to interact with people. Zuckerberg is always typing on the keyboard quickly in the film. He always goes his own way. No one really understands what he is thinking, and he doesn't care how others feel-but is it true? So why does he want to add his girlfriend as a friend on Facebook at the end of the video, and then refresh the webpage over and over again?
SOCIAL for Information is
a biographical film, "Social Network" has no very attractive stories, no lively action elements, and no gorgeous visual effects. It relies on ingenious structure and a large amount of information to capture the audience.
The main body of the film is actually only a lawsuit and an interrogation. But David Fincher used a simple and plain narrative style, added a large number of flashbacks, coupled with screenwriter Alan Sorkin's super-informative and extremely intelligent lines, the film has a strong dramatic tension. For example, when Zuckerberg’s friend Eduardo Saverin was interrogated by a female trainee lawyer, the conversation was very simple and straightforward, with no modification at all-
female trainee lawyer: How much is Mr. Zuckerberg’s shares diluted
Eduardo Saverin: No Diluted
female trainee lawyer: How much is Mr. Moskowitz’s shares diluted
Eduardo Saverin: Undiluted
female trainee lawyer: Sean Parker's shares are diluted to how much
Eduardo Saverin: Undiluted
female trainee lawyer: Peter Tyre's shares are diluted to how much
Eduardo Saverin: Undiluted
female trainee lawyer: Your shares are diluted to the point How much
Eduardo Saverin: 0.03%
In simple dialogue, Eduardo Saverin's strong dissatisfaction and Zuckerberg's indifferent behavior are undoubtedly revealed.
David Fincher’s early films all had a strong personal style, even a little too hard, but starting from "Zodiac", his style has become more and more restrained, cold, flat and calm. Shows a strong impact in the game. "Social Network" uses multi-angle narrative (or polyphonic narrative) to let each character tell the story from different angles, so that the audience can look at the protagonist more objectively and comprehensively. At the same time, the personalities of the supporting actors are also shown.
In addition, since "Zodiac" successfully used the digital camera, David Fincher used the RED ONE digital camera to shoot the film this time, but it avoided the usual drawbacks of the digital camera, whether it is depth of field, light and shade, texture, and contrast. Both are excellent. Mark Zuckerberg in the
SOCIAL for Asshole
film speaks very fast (a manifestation of excess information in the Internet age). His girlfriend Eric described it as "Dating you is like dating a treadmill." But the problem is not here. She finally said to Zuckerberg: "The girl doesn't like you not because you are a nerd, but because you are a bastard." This sentence coincides with what the female trainee lawyer said to Zuckerberg. The evaluation echoes: "You are not a bastard, Mark, you just want to be a bastard."
The propaganda slogan on the movie poster seems to say the same thing: “You can’t have 500 million friends without a few enemies.” For the protagonist of the movie, Zuckerberg, it seems difficult to use right, wrong, good or To sum it up by evil, he just regarded others as fools, so he became an asshole.
SOCIAL for Love (Emotion)
"Social Network" is not a love movie, but the film is full of emotional elements (although the director did not go to sensationalism). Among the three male protagonists, it is difficult to tell who has a sincere friendship with whom, and who has betrayed whom. There are no heroes and supporting characters in the film, only the contradiction between money, technology and ideals. Everyone seems to feel that they have been hurt, and everyone does not know how they have hurt others.
We found that no matter how successful the protagonist in the film, no matter what he created, what era he created, in my heart, this is still about love, understanding, loneliness, friendship, betrayal, heroes, growth, The emotional story of a dream.
(Note: This article was originally published on Mtime.com in October 2012 and has been revised here)
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