The Face Value of Facebook
Everyone has their opinion of when Facebook will meet its decline, but few know of its
birth. Director David Fincher tells the story through the film The Social Network, where the
tale behind the large social media giant, Facebook, was thought of and made. Fincher’s film is a
fast paced account of founder Mark Zuckerberg’s and his social media success. The movie takes
Fincher’s film and exemplies the social insecurities of men and the sexual value
of women in the social generation. With formal elements in film, Fincher delivers the
lms message through cut and paste scenes that cohesively express not only
the role of gender, but the stereotypes within them too. The film lets the
audience perceive the lm’s reality as a reality that they see themselves in
which helps to make the audience as anxious as the characters in the film to achieve the ideals
found in the movie.
As the film begins the theme of social acceptance is introduced by Zuckerberg on his date
with his girlfriend Erica Albright. As their conversation pertains to Zuckerberg’s goal of getting
into Harvard Final Clubs, the symbolism of the scene is obvious throughout the movie;
