There are so many people out there in the world! So many people (or people you thought existed) could be in contact with you and you may never know that they’re in contact with you or never know whether or not they actually exist. Someone could be creeping on you right now; looking at your facebook, chatting with you but pretending to be someone else or even sending mail. In this movie, it’s all about not knowing who you’re talking to online, texting or even talking to them on the phone. What would you do if someone contacted you from the other side of the country and they didn’t stop talking to you? Would you be creeped out? Would you tell them to stop? Or would you keep talking to them, to try to find some deeper information on where they came from and why they picked you out of all people to contact? This movie will take you on a thrill that you would have never saw coming. Twists and turns are everywhere in this movie and it will take you on a roller coaster of emotions. It leaves you feeling like this whole story is a mystery, waiting to be unraveled. The biggest mystery in this movie is who is Nev really seeing? The suspense will always keep you hanging, wanting more in details every second!
The movie Catfish directed by Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost and was produced by Andrew Jarecki, Marc Smerling, Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman. The film was released on September 17th, 2010 at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. The main star/actor in this movie is Yaniv (Nev) Schulman. He plays himself in this documentary that is one hundred percent real. Another character who ends up playing a bigger role then you would have thought is Angela Wesselman-Pierce. The character you would have thought would be in more of the movie is the 8 year girl; Abby Pierce (Angela’s daughter).This movie was filmed in 2007 where it took place mostly in Michigan, where Angela’s home is located. Catfish is based around Nev building a relationship on facebook with a girl named Megan (who was said to be Angela’s 19 year old daughter). During this time Megan’s younger sister Abby, was sending Nev her paintings of photographs he has taken. But this family has some major issues that they need to work out.
Nev is a 24 year old photographer based out of New York. He enjoys taking pictures, especially of dancing. Nev got a connection with this creepy family through one of his photographs that was in a New York newspaper. “Abby” painted a picture of Nev’s photograph, which she sent to Nev. This is where it all began. Nev began a relationship with Abby’s “half-sister” Megan. The relationship starts to seem too good to be true for someone you’ve met online. They continued this relationship for about 9 months before Nev thought that it was time to finally try to meet up in person. When Nev and company went to Michigan to find out more about Angela, Megan and family, he found out that a lot of what this family has told him was a big fake lie. Supposedly Abby, Angela’s daughter, is some prodigy young artist that is making a ton of money by selling her paintings to local fans. Whether this is true is something that you don’t get to find out till the end of the movie.
So many interesting things happened in this movie. So many things that you would have never expected to happen, did. Angela Wesselman-Pierce was in my opinion, the most interesting character out of the whole movie. The women is basically psychotic, I have this opinion only because all of the things she did to Nev and how stupid she was for thinking that he would never find out all of her secrets she was hiding. I think Angela honestly has something mentally wrong with her, possibly some sort of Multi-Personality Disorder. When you have twenty different facebook accounts and you end up having pretend conversations with them, something is wrong with you. I still can’t believe she had Nev believing this for as long as she did. It’s amazing that the guys filming were able to catch this entire thing on camera and make it into a documentary. The idea for this movie was nearly an accident to Nev, it was all coincidence that all this happened while the cameras were rolling.
As much as I thought the movie was full out creepy, I think it is still a good movie to see. It can keep social network users educated on what can really go on behind the screen of a computer. You never know who you are actually talking to and you should never talk to anybody you don’t personally know. I would only recommend this movie to teens and adults though for two reasons. First of all the language and conversations between some of the characters can get inappropriate. Second of all, most facebook or any other social network users are not younger children. I found this movie interesting because it always kept you wanting to watch more of it because you never knew when a twist of turn was going to happen in the story. I also liked this movie because the characters were unpredictable. Their lives are very unique and I don’t think I’ve ever personally met anyone quite like them before.
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