What
is the next big thing? We all hope for a cool story with it: if you’re
the creator, a story of triumph and wonder; an outsider, a story of scandal and
intrigue. In 2010, The Social Network looked at the story behind a
site that is on millions of laptops and cellphones; the site that more students
update in class than their notes.
A
question asked about this movie is how can watching someone type on a computer
for two hours be enjoyable? Yet, in our life that flickering feed is
a major source of entertainment. Still, it’s a fair question: I find
myself itching to refresh the page when I’m bored at work, but I can’t say that
watching my roommate update his status was the most entertaining Saturday night
of my life. I think its David Fincher’s use of contrasts that makes it so
riveting: the intense, single-minded concentration of Mark Zuckerberg is
pushed against sharp dialogue and fast paced images. Dissonance is in the
music too: In the first of many sequences of Zuckerberg running, ominous,
reverberating tones are taken over by classical melodies; tempos overlap:
slow piano with frenetic strings. And the story itself contrasts: the
triumphant success of the underdog and the scandalous world of lawsuits, drugs,
betrayal, and pride.
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