Trust No One

Catfish is a strange and peculiar documentary.  It relates to a modern type of romance – the one lived over the internet. As you all know, Catfish is the story of a New York man, Nev Schulman, whose brother and his friend decide to make a documentary about his online relationship with a family from Michigan. Through a series of events, it's revealed that the family in Michigan is actually just one woman – the mother Angela – and she fabricated various people, personalities and whole lives.

At first, I started to feel sorry for Angela and the life that she lived. She wasn't living a happy life which was probably the reason why she created her own make believe life over the internet, and her victim being Nev. I stopped feeling sorry for her after she kept adding lies on top of other lies to keep her story going. She lied about having cancer and about having a daughter named Megan, who Nev was starting to fall in love with. I feel that Angela should have told Nev the truth, the minute he showed up at her front door. No matter what one may be going through in life, it does not give them the right to use their problems as an excuse to do things that are unacceptable and hurt other people like what she did.

I really never thought about it until after watching the film, of how many of my friends on Facebook or any social media are actually real. I love to be on the internet, yet I do not like talking or messaging with people who I do not know in person, so I wouldn't consider this to be a huge problem for me. It's sad to know that there's people out there willing to hurt and lie to someone while the other person is giving them their trust. By adding people on social media we are giving them access to our pictures and to part of our lives. This allows anyone to be able to steal your pictures and even use them as their own just like Angela did. At the end of the day, I think that the only victim here was Nev. I feel really bad for what Angela did to him, and the relationship he carried on for months with her supposed daughter Megan. I loved the way Nev handled the situation and the way he confronted her. Situations like this happen all the time, and one should learn that you shouldn't trust anyone so easily over the internet.