The Social Network is about the beginning processes of Facebook, in which can be analyzed through the Feminist and Psychological lens. Mark is the main character that creates a profile of emotions that are portrayed in multiple lights and creates contrast in the storyline.
Looking through a psychological approach, you analyze the characters behaviors and motives throughout the film "The Social Network." The question I based my observations off of was what were the motives behind Marks actions for the creation process of Facebook? In the beginning of the movie Marks girlfriend Erika broke up with him, he then began to blog and created a site to compare all the faces of students, called Facemash, which compared who's hot and who's not. He was already very talented with coding and knew how to access forbidden and locked information. Mark's goal was to get into a finals club, which required recognition. He was enraged with the way people had treated him, he wanted to get back at them, and to have the last word in every situation. He accomplished this by throwing his friends under the bus and created enemies with people who were significantly higher on the social scale by stealing their general idea for what was projected to be a successful web design.
Looking through the Feminist approach, it is easily determined that women have no power in this movie and are represented as more of sex symbol/ stereotypical perception of women. Women were shown at parties, dancing on tables, making out with one another, taking off their clothes and are ultimately used as a "service" for the men. This movie shows women as objects to the men, in a group setting the women are nothing but pretty faces, despite the fact that they’re also most likely Harvard undergrads with the brains and intellectual talent comparable to the men.
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