Wednesday, 10 October 2012

DVD review: Catfish


A purported documentary about an online romance.

Smartly the creators of this independent movie realized that a mediocre story becomes something else, something significant, if they pretend that it all happened for real. Therefore they pretended that this fairly obvious online romance with hidden surprises it’s the real deal.
It’s fairly baffling how, to this day, there are people arguing online that it all somehow really happened. I won’t go into the details because of my No spoilers policy, suffice to say that if it all happened for real these filmmakers are the luckiest filmmakers ever. It all happened in front of the cameras, they got the juiciest story about online dating just by randomly picking some guy.
The movie itself is kinda boring. It takes forever to get somewhere and all the “revelations” are just the usual stuff that every sane person would think about online relationships.
The characters are also uninteresting and mildly annoying. I know that this is in theory a documentary but, as “The king of Kong” demonstrated, when you do a doc about real people they better be interesting persons to watch.
Conclusion: It’s a nice conversation starter but as a movie is really mediocre.

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