Catfish

This is a documentary about how on social networks people mightn't be all they seem or even the person that you think they are and also how easy it is to convince someone that your someone else completely.

It's a documentary about a guy called Nev who took a photo and it was published onto the news paper, later he got emails of paintings and paintings themselves from a girl called Abby who liked his work. These two people create a new online relationship with him sending her photos and her painting them. Nevs friends is filming the journey from Nevs point of view.

It show how Nevs is introduced to Abbys whole family and start to become closer and closer. He starts falling for Abbys older sister Megan and talks to her through facebook. There bond becomes really close and they arrange to meet up, Megan and the whole family so they can finally meet face to face.

But before they leave Nev is talking to Megan online when she sends him a song that she had supposidly sung there and then. Nev and his mate really enjoy it but then look up other cover versions of the song and find the exact same song but it's not Megan singing but someone else. With realising this out being shocked they asked her to sing something else and the same thing accord where they found the same cover song.

They decide to go along with Megan and pretend that they never realised it as they were meeting them and would find out soon. They travel miles to were Megan said that she lived and the building was empty. The then went to were the mother Angela and Abby lived. He find out then that Megan really didn't ever exist and that Angela had pretended to be her by copying photos and adding fake friends to look real in the eyes of the internet. She done this to escape reality and live as a different person for a while when she is on the internet.

The documentary really shows how much someone can lie over the internet and even if the seem genuine you should meet them face to face before you can actually throughly believe they are who they say they are.


Here is a link to a trailer for the documentary:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQZncEwejO4