This film embodies a whole frame of love, deception and grace in a maze of intrigue over the Internet over time. Now, the movie attempts to embody a mysterious experience about an emerging man's online friendship with a young woman and her family leading to a series of challenges along the way.
Is is all a stunt staged for the cameras? If so, then why isn't it more interesting?
Peter Rainer
Christian Science Monitor
October 01, 2010
It must be said that the filmmakers, who profess to be as surprised as we are about how things play out, are being disingenuous at best and underhanded at worst.
A film in which we spend an hour with these three dopes from Soho should have dispensed with each of them and just focused on this fascinating, lonely, quietly powerful woman from Michigan.
In a classic case of filmmakers prioritizing their own pitch over the actual goods, Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost put Schulman's toothy-grinned brother Nev front and center as he investigates his fishy long-distance Facebook crush.
At the end of this exquisitely poignant film, it's clear we humans are going to need a refreshed emotional skill set if we're to make sense of the real relationships we forge in our virtual worlds.
Ali Gray
TheShiznit.co.uk
September 28, 2012
Catfish is a unique documentary - like Capturing The Friedmans, it starts as one thing and mutates into a completely different, terrifying animal halfway through.
If you begin with the premise that all films, docs and dramas, are constructs of one sort or another and it's the how and why that's important, you'll have fun pulling this apart.
