I think to an extent we all catfish people through our
social media. Every day, we pick and choose what we want to show the rest of
the world. However, I think this is true of our lives in general. Of course, we
do not act the same with everyone in our lives, nor do we reveal our secrets to
everyone. We do not act the same way in a classroom as we do with our friends
at a party. Although I think this is true, I do not agree with what Angela did.
She created a small little world that allowed her to be who she truly wanted to
be, but at the expense of someone else’s emotions. Angela was obviously looking
for some type of excitement. I think she missed the thrill of dancing and of
all the experiences it brought her. She regretted giving that up and she was
looking for some excitement in her life. Nev fell in love with this fake
persona that Angela put on, and although originally, she may have not meant to
drag it on as long as she did, she continued to lie and put on a show. I think
one of the things that bothers me the most is the fact that she watched as Nev
continued to open up and love Megan. This whole time she understood what she
was doing. At no point did she seem like she wanted to stop. She ruined one of
the purest emotions a human can feel for someone else. Pure love. Maybe she did
not have bad intentions, but she definitely hurt Nev a lot, and she had no
intentions on stopping. This can be seen in the film as she continues to lie
even though Nev already called her out. She does not seem to be sorry she did.
She seems sorry that she got caught and that it made Nev upset. She obviously
felt real emotions for Nev. I think to an extent she was hoping Nev would see
her, forgive her and she could escape her current situation. It was extremely uncomfortable
to watch her flirt with Nev even though she was still pretending like Megan was
real. I think she chose Nev because she wanted to be reminded of what it was like
to be young again. She wanted to be reminded of her dancing her career and all
of the potential it held. I think Nev made her remember this.
6 comments:
I think catfishing and just exaggerating a little bit are two different things. Some people exaggerate on social media, catfishing however is a complete act of lying.
Mariana, I agree with what you said about picking and choosing what people show online. I feel that in a way, no one can really know a person through social media. Their true self at least.
I wholeheartedly concur with your blog post. When you said, " We do not act the same way in a classroom as we do with our friends at a party", that is so true but what Angela did was totally different. Of course she is wrong for fooling Nev like that but he reminded of her of what she could have been and reacted upon that excitement. I began to feel more not sorry for her because she continue to lie and flirt with Nev even though she already knew that the act was up. Gosh Angela! Why!?
I agree with you on the fact that I do think we all to some extent catfish people. I do think it could be argued that we are just presenting a certain side of ourselves but I guess that is what it essentially means to be a catfish.
You mad very good pointing saying that we pick and choose what we want people to see. According to that, it as if we all might be catfish but what Angela did was to an EXTREME.
If I was Nev I would have never accepted Angela for what she had done. Lucy for Angela Nev was a nice guy, and kind off understood her. The question that I ask myself after watching the video is, why would people lie that much?
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