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Catfish review paper

Catfish Movie Review

Stu Daly

                This movie was great all around. I love the way they filmed it, it made it look like a documentary about Nev. I wouldn’t of changed the movie in anyway I think they did a great job of making it. My favorite part of the movie was the ending and how Nev went and found out the truth, it was very interesting and kept me wanting to watch more and more. I would definitely recommend this movie to anyone especially people who are currently using Facebook because it shows what people can really do over the internet and that you have to be careful.

               

In the movie Catfish the main character Nev a photographer from New York City takes pictures of dancers and other things and he got his picture published in a new York magazine and about three months later he received a painting in the mail of one of the pictures he had taken that was supposedly painted by an 8 year old girl from Michigan named Abby. The painting was really good and surprised Nev so he wanted to contact Abby and eventually he started a relationship with Abby and her family. He would send her more pictures that he had taken and she would paint them and send them back to him. After a while Nev started talking to Abby’s sister and started to get close with her, her name was Megan and Nev thought that something could really come from their relationship.  They carried on an online relationship for about 8 months sending each other pictures and exchanging text messages.  After a while Nev travels to Vail Colorado for a dance festival and wants to meet Abby’s family. So after the dance festival him and his friends drive up to Michigan to meet the family and when they do it is not quite what Nev expected and he tries to figure out what’s weird about the whole situation.

                Through the whole relationship Nev thought that it was something real and could maybe go somewhere with it but after he meets with the family he realizes that everything was pretty much made up and that he wasted almost 8 months of his life talking to this person who wasn’t even real. The movie did a really good job of showing everything that happened and going into detail so the viewers didn’t get confused because it would have been easy if the filming and editing wasn’t done right.

               

Overall the whole idea of the movie was great. I enjoyed watching the whole movie because in the beginning it was a little slow but it was just working up to the ending which was a great surprise. I didn’t expect the way it ended at all but it was very good. I love the soundtrack and the way it was filmed because it made it seem very real and part of what was going on. I liked that Nev went and spent the time to investigate the family because he knew it was kind of sketchy to begin with but I’m glad that he went and found out the truth.

I would recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys a decent movie this would probably be more for adults because I’m not sure a young kid would be able to comprehend what is really going on. The whole facebook thing is big now and it’s important that people understand that people can make fake profiles and pretend to be other people. This movie really shows that it can happen to anyone, there are people out there that will spend the time to do that. Everything about this movie was very interesting and I would recommend it to all of my friends.

catfish day 3

the ending of this movie really suprised me i thought there was going to be a real megan and i was hoping they would go to see her. but it turns out that megan was made up to. i like the way nev handled the whole situation he was calm and got her to admit it in a nice way. angela was really weird and awkward which is what i would expect out of someone who did that. i love the ending where it describes why the movie is named catfish it gave it a comical ending. overall it was a very good movie and i enjoyed it.

catfish day 2

i think its really weird that nev had an 8 or 9 month relationship with a 40 some year old lady and they shared intimate text messages with him. im glad the nev went and found out the truth about everything because it would not have turned out the same way if he had not done that. i want to see what megan looks like because angela made up all of the people the nev knew. i kinda thought something was sketchy about the whole thing but i wasnt expecting that angela created her own little world on facebook and made it believable for a while.

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this movie is pretty interesting so far, im still wondering why the movie is called catfish though. the whole relationship over facebook is kind of sketchy im interested in finding out what happens when they go to michigan and see if they are real and not lieing to him. if i was him i would probably look more into it before going to meet them in person because it seems kind of weird the way they are acting.

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