3 Nuts!
Director: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
Don’t go on Facebook, better yet don’t go on the internet. This Independent film came out over the summer and it will make you laugh and cry. It also will present the occasional scare. It is a documentary style film about Nev Schulman a photographer and his new found friendship with an 8 year old girl Abby that he met through facebook. Abby is an artist and Nev is taken by her talent. Being a photographer he sends her his photographs and she sends him back paintings of those photographs. He speaks to her mother on the phone and eventually starts to develop a long distance relationship with Abby’s 19 year old sister, Megan. We follow Nev accompanied along side with his brother Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost as they record the entire experience. They travel across the country and eventually meet the family they have come to know through facebook. It is then that the film’s true mystery begins to unfold.
The film’s story line is original, unlike any I have seen. Overall, Catfish seems to have a cautionary message for the users of facebook. The film is fascinating and frightening, as we learn how facebook can easily be used as a means to mislead unsuspecting users. The film can be exciting and even enjoyable to follow. The viewer finds himself immersed alongside the main characters, in a quest for answers. Whether this film is in fact a true documentary or some elaborate hoax is still up for debate. The directors are quoted as saying that it is a 100% true and that everything shot in the film actually happened. For me, as much as I want to believe that this film is true-to-life, it seems a little too good to be true. My doubt comes from the film’s plot going almost too smoothly and things working out all too well for the characters.
In a peaNut Shell: I am a skeptic but that shouldn’t take away from the fact that this is an excellent film regardless of its authenticity. This film definitely should be watched by today’s youth.
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