I have always watched the show Catfish, but what I haven't
seen is the actual movie that lead to the series. Catfish the movie is a film
about Nev, main character, having an online relationship with an older woman,
Angela, unknowingly. Angela betrayed herself to be many different people on
Facebook and one so happen to be a young lady name Meagan whom Nev fell in love
with. After many serious doubts and unclear reasoning, Nev decided to make a
pop up visit to Michigan to see what is really going on.
To begin with, Abby becomes friends with Nev on Facebook.
She is introduced as this 8 year old artist that has lot of famous paintings.
Through the friendship of Abby, along come mother Angela and older sister Meg.
Meanwhile, Nev grew fond of the family. Abby sent paintings to his home and
after many talks, texts and messaging online with Meg, Nev seem to fall for
her. She sends him videos of her singing, playing the guitar and the piano. Meg
seem to be the perfect girl. After an 8 month long distance relationship, Nev
tried to further things and meet up with her, but something was always fishy.
Once Nev and his friend made the pop up visit to Michigan
they found out a lot of weird things. It turns out that Abby is not an artist
and Angela is. There isn't a Meg that Nev fell in love with, it is actually
Angela and she didn't even look like the pictures on her profile. Once Nev
figured out all the lies Angela has told he wanted her to confess. She explain
that she was played the role on many people on Facebook associated with Abby so
that it may look realistic. She also explains that each person represented a
piece of her life.
Now learning that everything that Nev was involved with was
a lie was shocking. It kind of makes you wonder why a person would put so much
energy into pretending to being something they are not. From what the audience
see from the film, Angela actually lives a hard life. She has to take care of
two grown handicap sons, a young daughter and her husband isn't fully attentive
to her needs. One can say that she is lonely and desperate for a normal life.
She paints in her free time but they are amateur paintings which kind of makes
you think that's why she displayed her daughter as the painter.
In all, I kind of
feel sympathy for Angela because she used Facebook for an escape out of her
real circumstances. Although, I feel that the lies and pretending were
tremendously outrageous, I still feel that you won’t know what to expect for
someone else's situation unless you are in their shoes.
2 comments:
I completely agree with your point about being sympathetic toward Angela. She has a rough life and gives all of her time, effort, and attention to her daughter and two handicapped stepsons. She was only trying to appeal to the life that she wanted to live before she got married. I do think that she took it too far with almost 15 fake Facebook accounts, but it's hard to be so mad at her when her actual identity is revealed. It is hard to understand what someone is going through and I think that if she had someone to talk out her problems with, Angela would have never felt the urge to do this online.
While deception of another person is wrong, I agree that you do not fully understand what someone is truly going through unless you are in their shoes. For example, I can recall an actual episode of Catfish where there was a girl that was talking to another girl, and when she found out who she was actually talking to, she was devastated. The girl who was the actual catfish said she used a fake profile because when she came out as gay, society was not so accepting of her, so that made her want to hide who she really was. Neither of these situations are right, but in both situations, you can sympathize with their situations. They are not accepting of their own identities so they assume the rest of the world will not be accepting of them either. It is crazy to see someone go so far to carry on a lie, but some people are just that desperate for an escape from their real lives.
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