Social+Network+Response

Honestly, I wasn’t too excited that we were going to be watching the Social Network as our first movie of the semester since I had already seen it. However, watching it again, just makes me so excited about film and learning how to evaluate it on a more educated basis.

Things I wanted to comment on: -I noticed that the use of music is interesting in this film. I found that anytime something ominous or dark was happening, then the music lent itself toward that emotion or effect. While that is something one would expect in a movie, I was pleasantly surprised that the lack of music was also strategic in it’s absence. -Something I found interesting was also the lapse in time between present tense, being the lawsuits (which isn’t actually present because the whole movie is telling the story of something that has already happened) and the past, being the creation of Facebook. While the lapses aren’t fluid in nature, they are rather jumpy and do not show any specific sequence for the receiver to follow. -This is normally confusing and tiresome, but that is what makes the movie interesting. The fact that it is unpredictable and you start to expect the unpredictableness. -Also, the movie uses dialogue to link changes in time. One character will be saying something in the past and then a character in the present with finish the sentence in the lawsuit. So cool and creative! -Also, the humor in the movie is something to comment on. Although the movie is serious, there are moments that the receiver wants to laugh, but it feels almost unnatural. The humor is sarcastic and intelligent in almost a smart-alecky sort of way.