Monday, April 4, 2011

Catfish

A documentary-style movie, Catfish tells the story of Yaniv "Nev", who strikes up a Facebook friendship with Abby, an 8-year old prodigy artist from Michigan who sees Nev's pictures online and decides to send him a painting of one of his pictures. Impressed with her talent, Nev urges her to do more and in the process becomes online friends with her, her mother Angela and her 19-year old sister Megan. Nev and Megan, an aspiring model/singer/dancer, continue to keep in touch and start developing feelings for one another over the course of 8 months. Nev, however, grows suspicious of Megan when mp3's that she sends him claiming to be her recordings are in fact of other people's performances on YouTube. When a job assignment takes Nev, his brother Ariel "Rel" and best friend/filmmaking partner Henry to nearby Vail, Colorado, Nev decides it's time to drop in on Megan and her "family". The results are quite surprising.

I highly recommend this documentary and urge those that do decide to see it, not to look into the details online as to not have the outcome spoiled.

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