This documentary was truly an adventure, an eye opening one. It all begins with Nev creating a relationship with a "girl" he thought was an avid painter. So he met her "family" through face book. That is when the little "girl's" big sister shows romantic interest in Nev, and they begin a romantic online correspondence. This is the plot to one of the most elaborate and complex deceits I have ever encountered. Before I begin my moral thought processes, I must say Bravo! She gave a very astonishing performance. She created fake lives for 17 people to make this scenario as real as possible.
What she did was wrong, really bad. For me to see someone as doing a wrong to another person they usually have to physically hurt them or cause things to happen that will hurt them. But, she played with this guys heart for nine long months. In his mind he had met his soul mate, to her this was her hobby and fun time. While I can see how her life might have been mundane and about as fulfilling as two saltine crackers, this is no way to go about it.
I find it disrespectful and trifling that she used her own daughter to lie to him. She drew him in with her sweet little girl as a sort of bait. Her name will be connected to story this for as long as she lives. I think that if your going to do something sinful, you should leave your kids out of it. By the end of the movie I was wondering how her other oldest daughter felt about her mom posing as her with a fake picture.
A big question in all of this would be weather or not she was cheating on her husband. On one side she never actually "cheated" per say. She merely did all the the things that inevitably lead to cheating. She was talking to him on the phone, calling him pet names, and even sexting with him. This is what usually goes on between two people before they actually commit the deed. On the other hand there is emotional cheating where if your showing romantic emotions towards anyone other than the person you are with you fall under the category of cheating. However, the thing about that is i'm sure married people still flirt with others from time to time. This doesn't sound like grounds for the other person to file for divorce, but just something their spouse did for fun.
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I agree with you on the grounds that it was absolutely disrespectful to drag her young daughter into this situation. However, I do not agree with you on your thoughts about cheating. I can see the point of view that what she was doing was not cheating because to each person cheating is a different thing and it is based on each person's relationship, the part I don't agree with is the idea of married people flirting with others. Of course married people should have their individual friends and I do not see anything wrong with that person having friends of the opposite sex. Where I think a line is crossed is when that person actively seeks out a romantic relationship with someone other than their spouse. In this case, Angela was clearly actively seeking out a romantic relationship with Nev. It would have been fine if she had just kept their relationship on a friendship level, but she created a completely new person for the sole purpose of having a romantic relationship with Nev. She did this clearly knowing she was married, I understand her need to have an outlet and escape from her reality, but I definitely do not think she should have actively sought out a romantic relationship.
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