Catfish

The Documentary Catfish is supposed to be about a man named Nev and his friendship with a little girl named Abby. Nev had a photograph featured in the New York Sun and later receives a painting of his photograph from Abby. Nev begins sending her pictures to paint and she sends back paintings of his pictures. This is the beginning of his interaction with her, but then they begin to speak to each other over Facebook. Then Nev begins to message the rest of Abby's family, like her mother, Angela, and her sister, Megan. Nev and Megan really hit it off and begin texting. He seems really invested in their relationship. The conversations that they have are very believable, it had me hooked from the beginning.

Nev, after staying in contact with the family for eight months, becomes unsure of the family. While messaging Megan on Facebook, she says that she will sing any song that he requests and she does, but when Nev goes to look up the song she sang, he finds a video of someone singing it that sounds just like her. He then listens to more of her songs and finds that the songs are not hers and that she didn't even sing them. Then he begins to wonder if Megan even exists and jokes that he could have been speaking to an man the whole time. 

When Nev sees fault in Megan's story, he begins to question Abby and the rest of her family. He then googles Abby and her gallery and finds that she doesn't have a gallery and couldn't even find information on Abby and her art work. He then gets a call from Angela, Abby's mom, and she tells him that Abby had a gallery opening and that it went well, which is a lie. 

At this point, Nev is determined to find the truth, so he makes a trip to Michigan. When he arrives, he discovers that all he knows about Megan is false, that Abby does paint, but not as often as he assumed, and that Angela is behind all of this. Angela was messaging Nev as Megan and was painting all of the art that was thought to be Abby's. 

When this is revealed, Nev looked so hurt. He had invested nine months of his life to this family and was lied to the whole time. I even found myself believing in her lies in the beginning and felt as if I had been betrayed by her. What Angela did to Nev I found very wrong and there was no point.