Catfish (movie)

[altwight]

http://www.iamrogue.com/catfish

Review

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The best way to put it is to say Catfish is heartbreaking, funny and not necessarily what you’d expect.

This documentary (or reality thriller) follows a charismatic young man named Nev Schulman who develops a friendship with an eight-year-old girl—Abby Faccio—who loves his photographs. She even begins painting some incredibly impressive artwork based on the photos. After sharing correspondence on Facebook, he soon finds himself chatting with several members of Abby’s family. This includes her mother, and her older sister Megan with a handful of other friends and relations. It is very early on when Nev’s brother Rel Schulman decides to film the relationship along with his partner, Henry Joost.

In a small town, it isn’t all that surprising to develop friendships with an entire family. In fact, there is very little to fear when it comes to somebody sharing their life without the help of a social networking site. Yet clearly, anybody could go onto one of these sites and make up lies and half-truths about who they are. There are many reasons why one person would deceive another because, for the most part, you can get away with it. That is the heart of Catfish and to say anything more would be unfair to an unknowing audience.

Most of the time, people want to see a film and not have it spoiled. All too often the trailer gives it away, or you read a review and it tells too much. If you want to see this film, avoid all of that. Don’t listen to the comparisons to The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity. Aside from those particular films being shot documentary-style, there is very little that this has in common with those two scary movies. While the commercials for Catfish may lean towards a horrific element, the “horror” is based on something deeper and more emotional, not some monster lurking in the darkness.

Getting back to Nev Schulman, the man who the story revolves around, much of the film’s success rests on him. While he's not always reasonable, he's doing what many of us would be curious about. Imagine going to everyone’s house in your Facebook contact list, how many of them do you think are telling the honest to goodness truth? His journey is a strange and revealing one. In many ways, the more we learn about this mystery girl he has fallen for and the beautiful pictures and music she shares, the more we learn about his own nature.

The story told is surprising, painful, shocking and very real. As far as the “it is real or is it fake controversy”, it all seems a little strange to me. Of course, being on camera, you will make choices a little differently and you may even put on an act of some sort. Yet the story about these three guys trying to find a girl is more honest than some would have you believe. To address some of this would probably give too much away, but the fact is that not everyone responds to a situation a certain way. The reactions here seem genuine and it all adds to a tale that, whether you like it or not, you will want to talk about it.

Haven't seen this posted anywhere but I'm really interested in this movie however the closest location is Atlanta and I'm all the way in central Alabama

Anyone seen this?

[tyven]

saw this last week

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FUCKING TERRIBLE SAVE YOUR MONEY

my spoiler is not really a spoiler, just my opinion

[Atreides]

the thing I don't get about this, is that this EXACT plot has been done as an episode of Law & Order CI and even then it wasn't the first time I've ever heard about it. They act like it's some crazy twist you'd never see coming, which is only true if you've been living in a hole for the past 10 years.

[Dryr]

I saw the makers of this flick on the one episode of carson daily I've seen in the last 6 months.

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The main character is a man that could be a model, at the higher end of hardcore facebook user age, befriending a young girl, then her mom, then the hot age-appropriate sister. Apparently the family was a hoax and the movie is the tale of that hoax