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Dark Muse
, 02-12-2011 at 05:30 AM (1554 Views)
First of all, let me just give forewarning to anyone who has not seen the film Catfish and may have an interest in doing so, I will be revealing spoilers of the movie below..

Alright! I just finished watching the Catfish as I have said, and while I would not say that the movie itself was disappointing I will say that I think the way in which the film was advertised was misleading, deceptive, and bordering on blatantly false. I was super hyped this movie based upon the previews I had seen for it, which sold the movie as being some great suspenseful, mind-bending thriller, compared it to Hitchcock, edified the trailer to give it a foreboding and ominous feeling. And further more I was completely surprised to discover the movie is in fact a documentary, of which in the previous there was nothing to indicate this fact.

So as soon as the movie is available on DVD I bump it up to the top of my Netflix list, and come to watch it, I find it to be something completely different than what I was expecting and hoping for.

The marketing campaign for the movie could be seen as being intentionally ironic considering what the film itself was in fact actually about, or perhaps it was just to produce the very effect it had to build up hyper and get people to want to see the film. Maybe a little bit both.

Needless to say, come to find out the movie is in fact a documentary about a photographer living in New York, when one of his photos is seen by a young girl Abby who paints it and sends him the painting, and thus proving to in fact be quite talented, from this he develops a friendship with the girl and becomes involved with all of her family all this strictly through Facebook, and occasional phone calls.

In the course of things he begins to establish a relationship with Abby's older sister Megan, who is alleged a musician among many other things when he happened to discover that one of the songs she supposedly sung, was taken from another artist and put off as her own. This caused him to engage in an investigation to discover just who these people in fact really were and what else they may be lying about.

Updated 03-09-2011 at 03:36 AM by Dark Muse

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  1. qimissung's Avatar
    I haven't seen the movie or even seen any of those ads; I just read a review which contained a spoiler (which I did not resist reading), so I know the ending. I think if I had seen the ads I would be disappointed, too, although the movie sounds interesting, and I think it's a relevant theme for our computer-saturated culture where many people are connecting initially through the internet.

    In a way, it's just another way to disguise our true selves from others. People have been doing it face to face since forever. Now we've just found a new way to do it.
  2. Dark Muse's Avatar
    Yes the movie was quite interesting for what it was, and I do think that Abbie was quite a fascinating woman. It was a well done and intriguing documentary, but the previews for the movie just prepared me and hyped me up for a completely different experince.

    So I did not dislike the movie, but it was not what I was hoping for.
  3. mtpspur's Avatar
    Never heard of this movie and probably wouldn't have bothered with it. Last movie I wanted to see was The King's Speech and still haven't worked it into the budget yet.
  4. MystyrMystyry's Avatar
    This sounds very interesting to me. I've not heard of it and therefore know nothing of the hype, but art fraud and forgery have interested me more than any form of crime for as long as I can remember (as an observer I mean). Having two sisters similarly scamming is especially intriguing as there seems to be a history of this in families - but the thing for me is always the 'why', and every case involves a different motivation