Young filmmakers document their colleague's budding online friendship with a young woman and her family which leads to an unexpected series of discoveries.
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Quotes
Yaniv Schulman:
[First lines]
If this is your documentary, you're doing a bad job.
Ariel Schulman:
Why?
Yaniv Schulman:
Because you're catching me when I don't want to talk about things.
Ariel Schulman:
How should we do it?
Yaniv Schulman:
Set it up, organise a time with me, put together some materials, emails, we'll get the Facebook conversations printed out and we'll really talk about it.
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Crazy Credits
The opening logos are recorded off a computer (specifically a Mac). The Universal logo is shown as someone using Google Earth. The Relativity Media logo is shown as if it was an online video. The Rogue Pictures logo is shown as a desktop icon. See more »
"Saint European King Days"
Written by Ervin Trofimov & Erkki Hobe
Performed by Opium Flirt
Published by Opium Flirt
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The story of a man befriended on Facebook by someone posing under a fake identity sounds as if it should be a story of our times. But there are problems with 'Catfish', not least because the story is filmed as it happens, the victim is the brother of the film-maker, and so one can't entirely trust that his own behaviour is entirely genuine, or at least, uninfluenced by his desire to produce material for his brother. Indeed, the whole film has a sort of student-project feel to it, and the eventual truth is sad and predictable, not particularly interesting, and there's a kind of uneasy sympathy for the perpetrator, who is treated gently but of course, also very publicly exposed. There's no real questioning, on the other hand, of the motives of those on the other side. There must be better stories lurking on the internet than this one.
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The story of a man befriended on Facebook by someone posing under a fake identity sounds as if it should be a story of our times. But there are problems with 'Catfish', not least because the story is filmed as it happens, the victim is the brother of the film-maker, and so one can't entirely trust that his own behaviour is entirely genuine, or at least, uninfluenced by his desire to produce material for his brother. Indeed, the whole film has a sort of student-project feel to it, and the eventual truth is sad and predictable, not particularly interesting, and there's a kind of uneasy sympathy for the perpetrator, who is treated gently but of course, also very publicly exposed. There's no real questioning, on the other hand, of the motives of those on the other side. There must be better stories lurking on the internet than this one.