Catfish

Catfish is a 2010 American documentary involving a man being filmed by his brother and friend as he builds a romantic relationship with a girl on the social networking website Facebook. - WikiPedia.

Before watching the movie, i had heard nothing about the plot, or narrative. So it was fresh, but something that was also expected at the same time (As I'm writing and you read this, I assume you seen the Documentary). As the movie was unfolding piece by piece, I began to think, that this could be happening to many people worldwide, there is nothing to stop people from leading imaginary lives, portraying anybody they want, even impersonating someone they may not even know. Why someone would do this, is beyond me, perhaps for companionship, or for the thrill of being a person they cant be in reality.

In my view, the security of being online and not face to face, by yourself and in your own space allows someone to impersonate a "fake" person, and without punishment, or embarrassment or being caught, because confidence is an issue with these people who go to the effort of impersonating multiple people online on a social network, like the woman 'Angella' in Catfish. She took on the a completely different persona, one of a beautiful model, who is extremely talented, makes her own music and is an all-round artist. To Angella, this was the perfect person, she took peoples pictures from Facebook and constructed a new person, but also took others work, music, and passed it as her own.

Some people would be gullible and believe everything they seen, read or hear. But to me, its not gullibility, its peoples innocence that fools them. people who arent as tuned into the online world, or who get out and around, talk to people in general are liable to believe, this is this persons life, there world, and there work. what you see is what you get, these people believe. but just like Yaniv, in the movie, his cunning and street smarts were able to pick out the cracks in the story and dissect it piece by piece, which led to him unveiling Angella's intricate (and maybe pointless) hobby. But its left unknown to us if Angella planned to cause harm to Yaniv or if it was simply a hobby to Angella.

But, Overall, the film is a wake-up call to peoples innocence, like they say, dont believe everything you read, and leaves you wanting to question that stranger you accepted friendship with on Facebook. Anyone can be Anyone.

Verdict of the movie - 9/10