Catfish documentary why is it called catfish

Is this film really a documentary? Details Edit. Release date October 1, United States. United States.

Rogue United States. Ishpeming, Michigan, USA. Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 27 minutes. Dolby Digital DTS. Related news. Oct 13 ScreenRant. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content. Top Gap. By what name was Catfish officially released in India in English?

See more gaps Learn more about contributing. Edit page. See the full list. Of the three men, Nev was naturally the one hit hardest by Angela's deception.

This world I'd been so involved in and excited about and hopeful for had just evaporated. Indeed, Angela is in many ways the true author of Catfish. She had followed the film-makers' work closely in advance, and there is an unnerving sense in which she seems to have chosen them.

But she also invited us to tell it, in a strange way. The disparity between the world Angela created for herself, and the one she inhabited, is what gives Catfish its poignant kick. Even those of us who have never ventured online can't claim to be innocent of false advertising; we have all exaggerated our plus-points, concealed our flaws, mis-sold ourselves in some way. Angela's intricate fantasies are, in some ways, the most extreme extension of that. The suggestion that the movie indulges in some falsehoods of its own while documenting the ones cooked up by Angela is one with which the film-makers have little patience.

There are those who believe the whole film is a hoax performed by actors; those who think its elements of truth have been manipulated by the film-makers; and those who believe in the picture as a documentary, but object to what they regard as its parasitic approach to Angela and her family.

Early in our conversation, Henry whips out his own recording device and slides it across the table to me. For fun. When your film has been accused of using for commercial gain a person who may be suffering from mental illness, it can't hurt to have everything on the record. For all we know, our next movie could involve this process somehow" — "this process" being the business of promoting Catfish — "and if we hadn't filmed the past few years, we wouldn't have that movie, so if we don't record this, we won't have whatever's next.

Better to have it than to not have it. Perhaps it is a consequence of the film's interest in deception that Catfish was regarded with suspicion even before its barnstorming Sundance premiere. It was at a private screening, held for friends of the movie's producer, Andrew Jarecki director of another controversial documentary, Capturing The Friedmans , that the film-makers first realised that not everyone was going to swallow their story wholesale. The veteran documentary maker George Butler Pumping Iron liked Catfish, but wanted to know not if but how much was staged.

Again, it was Rel who took particular umbrage. He'd been heartbroken. He was in a pretty dark funk for about six months after. After Sundance, people told me, 'Rel, take it easy. It's good for the film. You see, people have been watching reality TV too long, and we all know it's constructed. So the word 'documentary' doesn't give you the same guarantee of truthfulness that it once did.

The US critic Amy Taubin , who has described the film as a "sneak attack" on Angela, wrote, "Had the Catfish film-makers done a Google search when Nev received that first painting — and I find it inconceivable that as linked-in media types they didn't — they wouldn't have been fooled, but they wouldn't have had a film either. This is quite different from his offline persona.

Phil Show. He says that at one point he knew what he was doing was wrong and knew it had to stop. This explains why he killed Lennay off for good. He blamed cafishing Te'o on the pain of being molested as a child. Like most catfishers, he created a fake identity online to escape his past. Catfishing is very similar to phis h ing reeling in victims online and steal their identities. The difference between the two is that a catfish uses someone else's identity to lure people in and phishing is that someone lures you online in and tries to steal your identity.

It is actually legal — in the U. It could violate the terms of service of the website that has been used, but it is not illegal by law. But it also depends if the person who catfishes lies to obtain something specific. For example, if a 40 year old man pretends to be a 16 year old boy online, to obtain explicit photos of a 15 year old girl, he would be breaking several laws. Phishing is a bit different though, because it's used for identity theft.

A lot of people have received an email from their bank that was actually sent by phishers, who try to persuade you to send your banking information to them. There is, however, a side of catfishing that people — and the documentary — do not really pay attention to: the people whose pictures have been used by the catfisher. These people do not get a voice in the documentary; they only get to say if they were the person the victim was talking to, and nothing more. As a result, McCarthy has decided to sue Duggar for defamation.

Of course, this is not the case with every catfish. The story is about Artis, who thought he was dating a girl who resembles a porn star named Jess online, and was even prepared to give up his current girlfriend for her, with whom he has three kids. Jess only has one picture of herself on Facebook, which is immediately suspicious.

She went so far as to make dozens of fake Facebook pages just to make 'Megan' look more real. It was a lot, you guys. Now, even though, I saw the documentary back in the day, I still couldn't remember where 'catfish' came from.

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