Returning to Fight Club's cinematographer, Jeff Cronenweth, David Fincher delivers one of his films' most engulfing cinematography. The lighting, the shots, the camera movement all have you dwelling into the movie and more importantly into the protagonist, Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg). This is what I found most brilliant in The Social Network, the way it's cinematography, soundtrack, screenplay and acting blend in together through perfect directing to harmoniously engage you emotionally.
The fast paced dialogue with the soundtrack gives you a rush and leaves you, not keeping up but rather dragged behind the storyline (on first viewing at least). This rush, or thrill from the fast paced dialogue and soundtrack pull you into the aura of Zuckerberg. The screenplay is also very well structured and moves along very nicely with three dimensional characters and character development.
I found the severing of the friendship between Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield) and Mark Zuckerberg to be very interesting. It's easier to believe that it was greed or whatever is more "evil" than just envy or jealousy that led to Zuckerberg's betrayal because it's hard to believe and no one will admit their ugliness and deep down jealousy of others even the ones they love, even best friends. But it's only social standards that hold some of us back from acting on these ugly emotions or at least publicly acting on them. That's not to say that Zuckerberg did this just because Saverin got into the Phoenix club, but I believe it has a larger influence than many believe.
I don't mean to be cynical, but I do believe that we must acknowledge that we innately have these emotions, and that we do not control the emotions themselves but we can control how to act on these emotions. And this is what I love about cinema, or what I think makes a great movie, when it takes someone who seems godlike or other worldly and portrays him in the same humanity as the rest of us.
The fast paced dialogue with the soundtrack gives you a rush and leaves you, not keeping up but rather dragged behind the storyline (on first viewing at least). This rush, or thrill from the fast paced dialogue and soundtrack pull you into the aura of Zuckerberg. The screenplay is also very well structured and moves along very nicely with three dimensional characters and character development.
I found the severing of the friendship between Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield) and Mark Zuckerberg to be very interesting. It's easier to believe that it was greed or whatever is more "evil" than just envy or jealousy that led to Zuckerberg's betrayal because it's hard to believe and no one will admit their ugliness and deep down jealousy of others even the ones they love, even best friends. But it's only social standards that hold some of us back from acting on these ugly emotions or at least publicly acting on them. That's not to say that Zuckerberg did this just because Saverin got into the Phoenix club, but I believe it has a larger influence than many believe.
I don't mean to be cynical, but I do believe that we must acknowledge that we innately have these emotions, and that we do not control the emotions themselves but we can control how to act on these emotions. And this is what I love about cinema, or what I think makes a great movie, when it takes someone who seems godlike or other worldly and portrays him in the same humanity as the rest of us.