Winter's Bone And The Social Network: Film Analysis

The films that I’m focusing on for class were Winter’s Bone and The Social Network. The topic that I’m focusing on is how even though the main characters of these films are relatively the same age and they both come across problems throughout but Mark is much more capable of accessing his resources so he’s able to overcome the obstacles.This problem appears in life all around us also. People are faced with challenges in all types of social classes but the people with more money and resources are able to overcome them in an easier way compared to people living in poverty. Also another theme that comes up in these movies is gender roles, and that people look at them differently will treat Mark and Ree in different manners based on their sex. These character Mark and Ree both come from two completely opposite environments. Ree, from Winter’s Bone is a young woman that has grown up in a poverty filled environment with her mother and two younger siblings that she takes care of due to her mother who has gone a bit crazy and can’t take care of them herself, which is the reason that Ree wasn’t able to follow her dream of joining the army. But she has to find her father that left them so that she is able to keep the house for her family. Then there is Mark from The Social Network who is faced with a totally different living situation as he is a Harvard student that is making a social networking site that he somewhat takes the idea from a group of three other students and has to conquer that situation. But even though they’re different in those ways they’ve got their ambition to succeed that’s similar. Ree in Winter’s Bone is faced with many obstacles and challenges throughout the film. She has to find her father that left her family, when she has no idea where he is and has to find him to keep their house. She faces many obstacles here. Ree is put into this situation because of their financial instability which immediately is different than Mark in the Social Network. She then in the process of trying to find him is looked down upon because of her age and her social class. She is even beaten up because of it. She isn’t able to really fight back because she wouldn’t be able to because she’s just a young girl. But that doesn’t stop stop Ree from trying to find him because of her persistence and her refusal to quit. Then there is Mark from the Social Network that is in a completely different environment. …show more content…
He’s a Harvard student that starts off by treating women in a poor fashion by the way he treated his girlfriend. Then immediately after they break up he starts a website judging girls based just on the fact of how they look. Then after that, Mark is suspended from his academics for a year. This is what started the social network that Mark created that transformed into a website just for Harvard students making it for high class to separate each other. But this then transformed into a website for everybody to broaden the website and be able to make more money off it. But this didn’t come without the ideas of the creators of the Harvard Connection, which they had said that he had intentionally stolen the ideas from him. This caused a major lawsuit that Mark had to face which he was able to overcome because of his wealth and resources so it wasn’t a major problem for him. This same thing also happens with his friend and business partner that he takes out of the equation and he was able to pay him off easily as well due to his resources. These two characters are different in many aspects such as their social class and genders which affect both of them greatly. Mark is much more able to accomplish his goes than Ree just because of where they are at in life. They both end up doing what they set out to do. Mark lost a friend in the end of all of this but he was able to build up his website to