Catfish for Dinner

Catfish is a documentary about a videographer, Nev, who met a friend, Abby, through YouTube videos. He was friended by her on Facebook. Nev later talked to the young artists’ mother, Angela on Facebook. Through the family, Nev met Abby’s older step sister Megan on Facebook as well. The problem is Nev is a photographer and videographer who lives in New York and Abby’s family is from Michigan. Megan and Nev started to text and call each other constantly. The problem is that this is not at all what Nev thinks it is. His brother, Ariel and other partner and friend, Henry in his business found out some things that did not add up. It turned out that Abby’s mother, Angela was in fact Angela, Abby, Megan and various others on Facebook to make it seem truly authentic.

Angela was forced to confess all the people she was on Facebook when Nev and his crew took a pit stop in Michigan at their house while coming home from a job in Colorado. Her husband, Vince thought that Nev was just one of Angela’s primary buyers for her paintings. When Vince found out what she was truly doing, he explained to the crew what exactly Angela was doing and why it necessarily was not a bad thing. Vince explained about how cod would be mushy when they would be sent over from Alaska and they would not taste good. One of the fishers put catfish beside the cod to make the cod fresh all the way back from Alaska and the cod would still taste good. The analogy is that you need catfish in your life to keep you guessing and keep you fresh. I think that this analogy is perfect but it gives no right for anybody to do this.

I am disgusted on why any person would want to do this. I think the most disturbing thing that they did was bring a little girl into the situation. Angela’s life was so sad having to take care of Vince’s two boys both with mental disabilities. She wanted to be a painter and a dancer her whole life and her marriage has kept her back. These personalities on Facebook were the only things that kept making her feel like she could still have those dreams in hand. It is strange to see how far people will take these things. I know it is for their own self but it is not right to bring in innocent people into your situation.