Catfish

= SPOILER ALERT! I AM ABOUT TO GIVE A SUMMARY OF THE FILM //CATFISH//. HERE IS THE TRAILER. WATCH IT AND IF IT LOOKS INTERESTING TO YOU AND YOU WANT TO SEE IT DO NOT READ MY POST, JUST MOVE ALONG. =

Catfish is a documentary made last year about a Facebook relationship gone awry. This film is very relevant to the class. In fact, I always thought it would have been good to watch it in class. Catfish begins with a young photographer, Nev, who befriends a 9-year-old girl, Abby, on Facebook. It is not as creepy as it sounds. Abby loves Nev's photos so much that she paints them and sends them to him. Their relationship develops further and soon Nev is talking to her mother, Angela, on the phone about Abby's talent. Nev finds out about Abby's older sister, Megan, who is attractive and around his age. They develop a romantic relationship over Facebook and the phone but they live across the country from each other. Nev and his brother start to find clues that Megan is lying about some things. For example she sends him a sound recording of her playing the guitar and singing but they find out that she ripped it off of some random YouTube video. This prompts Nev and his brother to take a surprise road trip across country to see Megan and the family. He gets there to find the mother Angela and it turns out that almost everything was fake. Abby doesn't have an interest in painting; Megan doesn't keep in contact with the family and Angela has a husband and two small boys with severe down syndrome. Everything was a lie crafted by Angela to escape from her real life. Pictures of Megan and ALL of her friends were fake. The phone conversations that Nev had with Megan were fake; they were Angela using a different voice. Angela created an entire social group of friends with their own unique Facebook profiles. Nev and his brother continue to interview Angela about her life in which she is not satisfied with. This film was criticized about its authenticity but the filmmakers seem confident in that it was entirely real and they got lucky with such a rich story falling into their lap. I posted this thinking it would spark up some very interesting points to make. What does this film say about the security of Facebook? Angela spent 3-4 hours a night on her social web of friends with an intricate layout of who will be hanging out with who and where they will be that night. What does this film say about Facebook or the internet as an escape? (nfoltz)

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