“Catfish”
I give Catfish 2.5 stars. Catfish is a documentary filmed by Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost about New York photographer Yaniv Schulman, Ariel’s brother, having an 8 month long digital relationship with 8 year old painter Abby Faccio and the rest her family.
In 2007, a photo taken by Yaniv appeared in a New York newspaper and he soon received a replica painting of the photo in the mail from Abby. During the next several months Abby, Abby’s sister Megan and their mom Angela keep in contact with Yaniv through the phone and Facebook. Then, one night while Yaniv, Ariel and Henry are doing work in Colorado they discover that Megan and Angela have not been honest with the things they have told Yaniv, so the three of them decide to take a trip to Michigan to meet the family in person and see what is going on.
There wasn’t a whole lot that was good about the movie, but i’ll say that I do like Yaniv’s attitude. For the most part he has an awesome attitude through out the entire movie especially the last third of the movie when he finds out everything.
I feel it’s hard to be critical of a documentary because they don’t have a lot control as far as what happens, but I just don’t think the story is that great. Don’t get me wrong I think it’s an interesting film but I don’t feel it’s that crazy of a story. Is it some what of a creeper story ? Yes, it is some what a creeper story but it’s not much more then a creeper story caught on film.
Out of all the movies out right now Catfish would definitely not be my first suggestion for someone to go watch.
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