Thursday, January 27, 2011

Catfish Final Paper

             The movie Catfish is a great movie that portrays certain things in society; like being s parent of a mentally handicapped child, the extremes people go to, to be noticed, how one lie can compile into a network of lies, and many other different things in life. This movie can relate to a lot of different people and thus making it a great movie for really anyone. I personally enjoyed this movie because it took something boring, like a documentary, and made it into an entertaining piece of film. At first I was not interested in this movie at all, but by the end I wanted to see it again.
The movie Catfish was made in 2010 as a documentary that was directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman. The main characters Nev Shulman, Angela Wesselman-Peirce, Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost are all played by themselves and all of their characteristics all belnd together really well. They all seem to have great chemistry even though Henry is the one directing the movie.

Friday, January 21, 2011

Cat Fish part 3

well today we finished the movie. My original thoughts of themovie competely changed at the end. I figured that angela was doing all of these things out of desperation for the end of her life, because she had cancer. She really does not have cancer nor does she have a daughter named Megan. Angela did a very good job at making Nev think that all of these things about her and her family was true. When in reality nothing of it was true. Their entire relationship had been through facebook and talking on her phone. What she did happens all the time and truly the whole thing was messed up. But in America 5.6% of all facebook profiles are fake. But I think that Angela took it to a whole new leverl. She built massive ammounts of fake profiles that were full of pictures and videos and friends that she had never met. Not only did she break many facebook codes but she broke the law as well. I can't believe that someone could be so melicious that she would go through all the trouble to build a strong relationship with Nev and lead him on for almost eight months. The things that she said and feelings she expressed were wrong and I hope that this sort of thing never happens to anyone in this way. I would think that Angela should get help because I think that she is mentally ill

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Cat Fish Part 2

In the segment of the movie that we watched today Nev confronts "Meg" who turns out to be Angela who doesn't look anything like the Angela he thought he knew. It didn't really shock me that much because of what we watched yesterday. This lady in my opinion must be mentally unstable. Her two children that live in the house are bothi mentally handicapped and i think that some of that comes from her. it turns out that Meg does actually exist but she is in a alcohol rehab center for her alcohol problem. This whole thing creeps me out how someone could prolong a fake relationship for so long and get away with it and not worry about being caught.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Cat Fish Freewrite

At the beggining of the movie there is a definate sense that tension is starting to rise between the video producer and Nev. Due mainly to the effect of everything that Nev has been learning about Meg is all false and the Gallery that the family bought is still empty and has been for four years. So Nev is mad and is also mad about the fact the documentery is invading on his life and he wants it to stop. At the end of the segment today we ended on the team deciding to drive to michigan and finding out who these people really are. At the beggining it seems like Meg is so real and now she isn't appearing real at all. I am curious to see what they find when the team goes to Michigan and comfronts Meg and her Family. The movie built the relationship that Nev and Meg start to have and then the movie starts breaking it down only a half hour into it which I didn't like very much but so far I have high hopes for the movie and how it finishes.