Simply Divine

David Fincher’s rhythm in the Social Network dances to the volatility of Mark Zuckerberg, its protagonist. The flow of editing and pacing which was the work of Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall does not only create narrative forward thrusts, but sophisticated psychological frameworks. Zuckerberg’s Harvard dorms and the deposition rooms pulsating with mechanical precision like a metronome emphasizes scene leaps, reminiscent of Zuckerberg’s mind. Conversational exchanges delivered at a rapid pace are timed to not only Mark’s thinking emotionally detached but his emotional state. Amputation happens within three layers of time, trying to balance being present with the body's feelings, and balancing goals with what might happen as a result. Zuckerberg’s social inadequacies are reflected in the narrative’s rigid structure: recursive, cold and calculated. With every moment of stillness, distance increases, and we are vehemently pushed away into his psyche with every cut. The dissection is elabor...

INTRODUCTION     Stuart Halls lens comprises on the {dominant, negotiated and oppositional}, the; Dominant- they are the people that agree fully with the way the writer portrayed a character and or the  series of events in the film. they agree on the view the creator had while creating or rather encoding the film. Negotiated: These are the people that can agree but also have some complains about the point of view of the writer/creator, the way they made some certain things seem or even the way they portrayed a certain character. they just don't fully agree. Oppositional- they are very clear about their disagreement with the encoder of the film, they do not share the same view and they believe their view to be right and are solely against that of the creator/writer. These are the various lenses i will use to carefully critique this film.       Looking at the cultural context of the film, it was around the early 21st century (it reflects the rise of social me...