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In this tale of electronic attraction, love, deceit and forgiveness, the dark reality of how far one woman was willing to go to soothe her emotional aches and pains is unearthed, and CATFISH asks the question: what exactly can we trust in this age of virtual connections?
Director: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
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Log out of your Facebook account for 24 hours. Connect face-to-face or make phone calls instead.
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Become involved with the Handicapped Children’s Association, which offers assistance to families raising both mildly and severely handicapped children.
Join Our Time, along with Nev, which “empowers and speaks for the interests of young Americans.”
“The fabricated life stories and photographs that they cobble together online often contain the experiences, friends, resumes and job titles that they wish were their own, providing a complete window into how these scammers want the world to see them – and how far they fall from those ideals.” – Read the full article on “Catfishing” here.
After the head-spinning realization that things were not as they appeared, the filmmakers cold-called Aimee Gonzales: the girl behind the face that Nev had fallen in love with: Watch what happened.
“According to three new studies, Facebook can be tough on mental health, offering an all-too-alluring medium for social comparison and ill-advised status updates.”
Read an overview of these studies here
Listen to our playlist with music from the film on Spotify.
That’s what New York Magazine thinks you’ll be asking yourself after seeing the mind-blowing twists in this doc.
“CATFISH’S intricate twists won’t be revealed here—but suffice it to say that Megan is too good to be true. Plenty of people think the film may be, too. Nev and Rel have lately found themselves defending their work—and that year in Nev’s life—against skeptics who believe that his experience was planned or even flat-out fabricated.”
The New York Times reviews Catfish:
“‘The Social Network’ is about origins, while ‘Catfish,’ at once narrower and more universal in implication, is about consequences. Mr. Zuckerberg may be the genius who invented Facebook and cashed in on its success, but many of the rest of us live, at least some of the time, in the world he made, and on the evidence of ‘Catfish,’ it can be a pretty creepy place.”
Michael Wu, Ph.D. is Lithium’s Principal Scientist of Analytics, digging into the complex dynamics of social interaction and group behavior in online communities and social networks. Read the article here!
AM I A GOOD PERSON?
A set of six films exploring the blurry boundary between truth and lies, good intentions and plain deception.
Curious about what kinds of accounts contribute to that number? Read more here.
Listen as NPR discusses the film, and its thoughts on speculation that the film itself may be a fake.
"Tells a devastating story that couldn't be more relevant to our times."
Detroit News
"Demands to be seen."
Boston Globe
"ABSOLUTELY RIVITING"
AV Club
