As well as being a cautionary tale of sorts, Catfish is a documentary, or at least a 'documentary' (I'm not sure I believe it really was entirely real and unscripted). Given the premise - man develops relationship through facebook, but it turns out that not everything is as it seems - it's easy enough to predict the general direction in which things go, but what's surprising is how gentle the depiction is (it's also a bit sad, though for me the element of hope in the ending was more prominent)...and it did make me think about the pitfalls of getting to know others - both online and otherwise - and the different ways in which we construct our selves, and in which those constructions can be meaningful.
(w/ Caroline - last Saturday)
