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.
