Blog #7

Throughout the movie, The Social Network, all of the critical approaches appear. The two most noticeable ones were the feminist approach and the moral/philosophical approach. These two approaches show up a lot during the film and are displayed in many different characters.

From the feminist approach, the film portrays women negatively in many different ways. One example is when Mark makes Face Mash. Women are rated by men and compared to other women one by one. This upsets the women but Mark thinks they’re overreacting. Another example is when Eduardo’s girlfriend, Kristi, gets upset about him switching his Facebook status to single. She also gets mad about him not contacting her when he is away. This results in her setting a garbage can on fire in his apartment. I also noticed that the majority of women are partying, dancing on tables, and throwing themselves at men.

From the moral/philosophical approach, the film demonstrates many negative morals. Mark is really rude and patronizing towards every person in his life. Mark doesn’t respect powerful figures such as professors, the judge, and his friend Eduardo. Another example that I saw throughout the movie was when Mark hacks into websites and creates Face Mash.

When looking through these two approaches after watching this film, I realized that this film is very negative. There are many examples that display negative morals and gender differences. The film portrays Mark as being a very rude, condescending person. Although there are some positive morals and gender differences in the film, the negativity is more prominent.