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Monday, November 27, 2017

Catfish

Before I begin to explain the film we watched in the class, I just want to say I can not remember their names exactly so I will try to make this as clear as I can.

There is a guy who has his own show and its called "Catfish". Catfish is basically a documentary that has the goal to bring online "couples" together so that they can meet the person that they have been having conversations with for however long they have been talking.  A lot of times the people on the show will find that they have been talking to someone who has been lying to them the whole entire time. Their photos online turn out to be stolen from another account and they used another name. There are also times where the other person is exactly who they say they are. Those times are actually very rare.

For example, someone will contact "them" and ask if they could help them find their significant other who they have never met in person. A lot of people have the thought that they are being lied to, or they feel like the person that they are talking to is really telling the truth. Of course, they tell "them" the background story of why "they" are contacting "them". "They" explain the conversations that they have, and how they feel about that person.

After figuring out what is really going in this "relationship", "he" plans to travel to wherever that person is to meet them. Fast forward - "They" get to the city of where the person supposedly lives, they make their way to the other person's residence. Sometime the outcome is pretty good, or it is terrible. For the most part the other person is not who they seem to be, and it causes a lot of anger in the other person involved in the "relationship".

In the version we watched in class, the main guy from the episode we watched in class was one possible being catfished. He was receiving paintings from a girl that were selling for a lot. Later, the older sister started to like "him". She "wrote" him songs that they soon found that matched the same exact voice and words as recordings on YouTube. They got the feelings that she was not real and they started to look closer into the relationship.

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