{"id":5579,"date":"2010-12-11T23:12:56","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T03:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=5579"},"modified":"2010-12-11T23:12:56","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T03:12:56","slug":"catfish-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2010\/12\/11\/catfish-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Catfish–Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nCatfish<\/em><\/a> is a quirky low-budget documentary that asks the question “How well do you really know your Facebook<\/a> friends?” and comes up with a somewhat unexpected answer.<\/p>\n

In 2008 Yaniv “Nev” Schulman, a young New York photographer, received an unusual gift in the mail: a painting based on one of his photographs that had been published in a national magazine. Even more unusual was the artist: a precocious eight-year old girl named Abby Pierce. The painting was amazingly good for one so young. Intrigued, Nev began an email correspondence with Abby. More photographs and paintings were exchanged.<\/p>\n

Nev happened to share an office with two filmmakers: his older brother Ariel “Rel” Schulman and Henry Joost. They decided that Nev’s relationship with Abby would make a great documentary. Having gained Nev’s somewhat reluctant agreement, they began filming.<\/p>\n

Nev’s correspondence with Abby expanded to include her mother Angela and her older half-sister Megan Faccio. Facebook exchanges and even telephone calls followed. Nev’s conversations with Megan became increasingly intense; he became convinced that he was falling in love with her.<\/p>\n

But then he realized that some of what Megan had told him was false. In fact, the more he examined it, the more things started to look like a web of lies. Ariel and Henry convinced him to go to Abby’s home town in Michigan to find out the truth.<\/p>\n

The truth was even stranger than he imagined, but things don’t turn out quite as ugly as one might expect. In fact, there’s even what might be considered a happy ending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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