Catfish Review

Catfish Review
John sampers
Facebook, the place where real people go to talk and socialize with other real people, or is it. When you go on Facebook and see all the people on it how do you know they are who they say they are. No one could meet someone on Facebook and only talk on the phone without Skyping them or ever seeing them in person right? Well it happened in the movie Catfish with a guy named Nev who meets a girl who sent him paintings of his photos. He gets in contact with her on Facebook and starts to talk to her. Nev meets this girl’s sister on Facebook and they hit it off. They txt and talk on the phone a lot and they begin to have a long distance relationship without ever having met. They didn’t even Skype ever. After a while he decides he has to go and surprise her because all of the plans he’s made have fallen through. Once he goes to look for her he gets many different surprises.
The movie Catfish is filmed, directed and edited by Nev Schulman, his brother Ariel and friend Henry Joost in New York. The people in the movie are the ones that filmed it and Abby and Angela Pierce. The movie was made in 2008. It takes place at first in New York City and then they go to Michigan to surprise Megan. Nev starts to figure out that there is something wrong, but he keeps going for the sake of the documentary. When they start to go to Michigan they find out even more that it isn’t really true.
Nev is a Photographer and one day he gets a package of a painting of one of his photos. He gets on Facebook and finds out that it is a little girl painting her name is Abby. He also gets in touch with her mom who is Angela. Then he meets Abby’s older half-sister named Megan and he starts to like her and they talk on the phone and eventually become in a relationship. She says she wrote him a song. Nev listens to it and likes it but later finds out that it is by someone else on YouTube. He tries to plan times when they meet up, but the plans keep falling through so Nev eventually decides to go and surprise her. When he gets there he finds out that a lot of other things she has said were lies. Once he actually meets her he finds out a big surprise.
The time when Angela admits everything to Nev and explains how she built her web of lies. It was very interesting even though I had mostly figured it out by this point in the movie. It was very interesting that even when she was caught she still lied a little bit and said that Megan was a real girl and was actually in rehab which was a lie. When she told all of the different ways she kept from getting caught. I think it’s really funny how the husband is completely clueless and doesn’t know what’s going on. If it happened with me and I saw it in a movie that my wife had an affair I would be completely pissed off.
I thought the movie was great. If it was actually a real documentary and they didn’t fake it, it is awesome not only that this happened but that it was recorded and followed. The title catfish means that there are some people in the world who are catfish and keep everyone else on their toes. The girl in the movie, Angela was one of these catfishes. The movie relates to what we’ve learned in this class showing that now with all the media and social things we don’t even have to go anywhere to meet someone hundreds of miles away. A lesson that can be learned from this movie is meeting someone in person before you start to date them. Essentially you need to just not be a dumb ass.