The Social Network (2010)
To start off with, we have an over the shoulder shot, which brings us directly into the conversation without any sort of establishing shot. The character facing us, the lawyer, is speaking but the protagonist, Mark, is turned away so that the audience can see his face and so that he is not looking at the speaker. This shows his uninterest of the conversation. At 00:07 the scene cuts to one of a different scene, where the sentence is carried on by a different character, Eduardo. This signifies that the scene is a flashback or flashfoward. Both the cut in and out of the courtroom scene is a confusing for the audience and forces their minds to jump from one setting to another.
Match-on-action is used at 00:46 when Mark looks out of shot and it cuts to where he is looking. It is also used at 01:15 when Mark says "...sitting here listening to people lie" and then turns to look at one of the characters opposite him, obviously stating that he thinks that the clients are lying. The technique is used once more when the lawyer looks away and the camera cuts to show what he is looking at, which is the reaction of the people opposite him.
The 180 degrees rule is used continuously throughout the clip to follow the conversation, for example at 00:32 when the camera cuts from an over the shoulder shot of the lawyer to an over the shoulder shot of Mark in order to show that he is speaking.
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