Now-a-days when we hear the word “Catfish” mentioned we
automatically think of it as someone pretending to be someone they are not for
their own ulterior motives. However, in this case the term “Catfish” refers to
a documentary that follows Nev and Angela’s story- one lived over the internet.
The documentary “Catfish” follows Nev as he develops a friendship with Abby, an
8-year-old artist, over Facebook. She contacts him after seeing one of his
pictures and later sending him a replicated painting of it. Their friendship is
completely innocent and harmless until other “family members” come into the
picture. Megan, Abby’s 19-year-old
sister, develops a romantic relationship with Nev despite never meeting in
person. Nev is star stuck by a beautiful girl who seems to be so talented in
the art of singing. Things go south when Nev realizes that the tunes Megan has
sent him belong to other online artist, and after confronting her she denies
the truth. While on a business trip Nev
and his two friends venture close to where Abby lives and decide to visit the
family. Their main objective is to know how much of a truth or lie they have
been told. First stop, Megan’s ranch, which truly belongs to no one and the
mail Nev has sent is found in the mailbox. The following morning Nev surprises
them at family breakfast and the semi truth comes out.
I can understand Angela pretending
that her paintings belong to her daughter. She wanted the attention that she
might’ve not gotten had everyone known that they belonged to her. What I don’t
understand was her need to pretend to be Megan. She could’ve maintained a
friendly relationship with Nev without inventing another person. To top it off,
when she had the opportunity to tell the truth she chooses to lie again and say
that Megan was in rehab. Which, go figure, she was not and the entire time it
was her pretending to be Megan. Megan’s character was played by a stranger who
lived in Canada with her family. In building a believable story Angela created
a total of 15 Facebook profiles and somehow managed to maintain all of them. Personally, the hardest thing for me to
understand was Angela lying about having cancer. After everything she continued
to lie even when she had the opportunity to come clean, basically adding salt
to an open wound.
3 comments:
I agree with you Maria, I think it was wrong of her to lie about her health and invent a person to have a fake relationship with Nev. The fact that she stole someone else's identity and then keep lying to Nev.
I agree that if she wanted to keep it friendly, then she should have never invented Megan.
I believe she introduced Megan into the problem for the same reason she called her own paintings Abby's. She wanted Nev to be interested, and just as she knew her paintings would be better receipted if under a different name, she did the same with a relationship. But still pretty weird overall.
Post a Comment