Chromatic Chronciles

 23BE033067 INTRODUCTION In The Social Network, David Fincher doesn’t just tell Mark Zuckerberg’s story he gives us a look into his mind using editing and pacing in a psychological way. Right from the first bar scene, where Mark and Erica are having a tense conversation, the film’s quick dialogue and sharp cuts set the tone. The editing creates a feeling of pressure and constant mental movement. We can see that Mark is smart and articulate, but also emotionally distant and hard to connect with. The structure of the film mirrors how Mark thinks fast, disconnected, and often defensive. By jumping between courtroom depositions and moments from his time at Harvard, Fincher shows us someone stuck between the mistakes of his past and the consequences he faces in the present. There’s hardly a pause between scenes or lines of dialogue, which reflects how Mark avoids dealing with emotions head-on. It’s like he’s always racing ahead to stay in control. Rather than presenting Zuckerberg...

  23BE0330067 Introduction David Fincher’s The Social Network is a film that reflects power, exclusion, and identity in the context of modern technology—and not merely about the creation of Facebook. In this review, I employ Stuart Hall’s Encoding/Decoding Model, focusing on the film's meaning construction and communication. This review is framed within Hall’s theory that states media producers “encode” a message into a cultural artifact while audiences, based on their social situations, “decode” it, often differently. The film’s editing, narrative structure, mise-en-scène, and performances will illustrate Hall’s vision on how The Social Network captures perspectives on power, gender, and   tech. After that, I will demonstrate how audiences construct dominant, negotiated, and oppositional readings using examples from the film. In this analysis, we see how the film’s cultural significance and consequences continues to develop. ENCODING The Social Network is carefully put ...