Friday, April 17, 2015
Catfish
This week in class we watched a documentary film called "Catfish". It is about a online relationship that turns out to be more than meets the eye. The man, Yanev, thought that he was receiving paintings from a little girl who's sister wrote songs and did dance. Instead, he found out that one single woman created an entire web of lies for... what? To seduce him? She was already married and had two disabled kids to look after, as well as a little girl. Many in the class agree that she was cheating on her husband simply because she was getting emotionally involved with another man, but I didn't really hear from those who believed that she wasn't cheating. Personally, I think her problems ran very deep and Sartre would have had a field day with her. His belief that we wear masks all the time and there is no true person would have been epitomized in this woman. She wore the mask of her daughters, her daughters friends, herself, and others. When confronted about it, she doesn't really seem to accept the fact that it is all lies. Instead, she simply lies some more. True, people like her do keep the rest of us on our toes but are they really the best option for doing so? I think there are better ways of staying alert than to get involved with pathological liars. She had gotten herself into a situation that she couldn't get out of easily and was willing to go the extra mile to escape, even if it was only temporary. It was quite sad to watch and think that she resorted to hurting others when she could have instead done something like playing video games or reading books. She could have done some great things for the human race when instead she chose to cheat. In class we mentioned that if she left her husband it would be viewed as horrible but that seems to have already happened to him once. The two boys were his from a previous marriage, which leads me to wonder what happened. Did someone else take that path and leave him and the kids? What are other people's thoughts?
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I think that we did not hear from those in class who didn't think it was cheating for one of two possible reasons: there wasn't anyone who thought it wasn't cheating, or the ones who thought it wasn't cheating didn't want to speak up because they didn't want to voice it, knowing that the majority would disagree. I really don't think there is even a semblance of truth to any argument I can think of for that not being cheating. When you ask if they are really the best option for keeping us on our toes, I have to say that I believe no one is making it their goal to be in contact with pathological liars. Therefore, it isn't really an option that one would choose to remain vigilant, but a trap that we'd want to avoid- and because of that, we stay on our toes. I agree that she made an extremely bad choice in terms of dealing with her situation. Video games and books are wonderful outlets for many people, just like exercise might be as well. There are probably hundreds of other activities she could have partaken in other than what she did. The interesting thing, is that painting would be considered one of those outlets. Clearly, for Angela, painting did not do the trick. It seems she could find no satisfaction outside of the elaborate scheme she created.
ReplyDeleteI was kind of wondering the same thing. Did his previous why leave the husband with the two kids? To hypothetically assume, maybe his previous wife did on the basis that she probably was not mentally grounded enough to accept her children as disabled. On the contrary she could have left him because of many of the most common reasons divorce happens.
ReplyDeleteI was kind of wondering the same thing. Did his previous why leave the husband with the two kids? To hypothetically assume, maybe his previous wife did on the basis that she probably was not mentally grounded enough to accept her children as disabled. On the contrary she could have left him because of many of the most common reasons divorce happens.
ReplyDeleteI believe that Angela cheated. She was deceitful and her husband did not know the real reason Nev was down there. Angela chose her path in life, and though I sympathize with her, I also believe that she was immoral for playing with people's emotions at her disposal. I feel Angela was not only wrong for playing with Nev's emotions but also her actions took a toll on her daughter and her husband.
ReplyDeleteI would say that this lady would be a compulsive liar. Even when she said that she was telling the truth now, she continued to lie. If she wanted to do all of these great things that she said she wish she had done as a kid then she should go after them now, or at least something that makes her happy. She stated in the movie that she wanted security and her husband gave that to her. I know that we talked about being your "true self" in class and she is viewed as not being this. I do not think this the case. We are all our true selves and no one can tell us that we are not being our true self. I think that personally people these days are to affected by the outside world and the way that society views them to be their true self.
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