catfish

Last week we watched catfish the movie which is a documentary about Nev Shulman and his relationship with someone who catfishes him. While I had seen the show, and was familiar with what happened in the movie it made me realize how far people are willing to go to seek out friendship when they have the opportunity. The women who cat fished him had multiple account to trick Nev into believing that the girl he was talking to was real. She had created a city of people friends and family who knew this girl and her family that she had loosely used to represent her family. Angela (the lady catfishing Nev) had originally sent Nev a painting of one of his photos claiming her young daughter Abby painted it sparking Nev’s interest in this family. Nev eventually comes into contact with “Angela’s daughter” and talk for several months as Nev becomes interested in her and thinks about meeting her to see if the spark is there in person. However, as they become more interested in the family Nev and his brother notice some inconsistencies that Angela’s daughter Abby does not really own an art studio and it seems that the other daughter doesn’t own a ranch. Nev decides he wants the truth so him, his brother and a film buddy all travel out to where they live to find out what happened. As I watched the truth unravel Angela reminded me of the first how we watched about the lady who talks to the computer because she lost her husband. Angela obviously was not happy with her life so she made an online world she could escape to and to talk to people (Nev) who weren’t a part of her real life. This made me realize how much people rely on technology now that they think to hide behind a computer screen to make friends and talk to people online with someone else’s face. This movie sparked Nev to make a show of his own helping people to find the people online they are talking to and find out if they are being cat fished. It shows how common that situation is where you talk online with someone hundreds of miles away trying to connect with people on a deeper level than you do in real life which is ironic because you have never met the person face to face.