FILM: About Social Networks - Catfish
Can't wait to see this one - wonder if it will be teachable from HS and up? Has anyone seen it already?
At least one thing about Catfish is certain: It’s the first film to depict digital life with any sense of authenticity. (There are more shots of Facebook in the opening minutes than in the two-plus hours of The Social Network.) What’s more, the filmmakers deftly use digital platforms as plot devices, stringing us along with every status update and Google map. And you know what totally makes up for any creative embellishment? Pioneering a new genre: the social-media whodunit.
From: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/11/pl_catfish_film/
Blurb from Wired...
Film: Is Catfish Just a Tall Tale?
By Rick Paulas November 1, 2010 | 12:00 pm | Wired November 2010
A recent film about Facebook has been making a splash, mostly because it’s too unbelievable to be believed. No, not that big-budget David Fincher flick; it’s Catfish, a low-budget documentary about the friendship between Nev Schulman, a 24-year-old photographer, and his Facebook pal Abby, an 8-year-old painting prodigy. The film starts as a cuddly story about their online connection, but as Nev gets more involved with the girl, her 19-year-old sister, and the rest of her eccentric family, he wonders if things aren’t quite what they seem. Viewers have had the same doubts about the movie itself; the pulse-pounding suspense and brain-pretzel plot twist seem too good to be true — an accusation the filmmakers deny.” This sort of reaction didn’t even occur to us until someone at Sundance asked if it was real,” says Ariel Schulman (Nev’s brother), who codirected the film. Catfish is just one in a series of movies — Joaquin Phoenix’s I’m Not Here, Banksy’s Exit Through the Gift Shop — that audiences have suspected of blurring fact and fiction.
By Rick Paulas November 1, 2010 | 12:00 pm | Wired November 2010
A recent film about Facebook has been making a splash, mostly because it’s too unbelievable to be believed. No, not that big-budget David Fincher flick; it’s Catfish, a low-budget documentary about the friendship between Nev Schulman, a 24-year-old photographer, and his Facebook pal Abby, an 8-year-old painting prodigy. The film starts as a cuddly story about their online connection, but as Nev gets more involved with the girl, her 19-year-old sister, and the rest of her eccentric family, he wonders if things aren’t quite what they seem. Viewers have had the same doubts about the movie itself; the pulse-pounding suspense and brain-pretzel plot twist seem too good to be true — an accusation the filmmakers deny.” This sort of reaction didn’t even occur to us until someone at Sundance asked if it was real,” says Ariel Schulman (Nev’s brother), who codirected the film. Catfish is just one in a series of movies — Joaquin Phoenix’s I’m Not Here, Banksy’s Exit Through the Gift Shop — that audiences have suspected of blurring fact and fiction.
Illustration: Mark Weaver, Photo: Universal
At least one thing about Catfish is certain: It’s the first film to depict digital life with any sense of authenticity. (There are more shots of Facebook in the opening minutes than in the two-plus hours of The Social Network.) What’s more, the filmmakers deftly use digital platforms as plot devices, stringing us along with every status update and Google map. And you know what totally makes up for any creative embellishment? Pioneering a new genre: the social-media whodunit.
From: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/11/pl_catfish_film/
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