Thursday, June 23, 2011

Catfish

documentary(?)

Engaging but off-putting story of a NY photographer who gets drawn in to an on-line romance. As this film went by I had mixed feelings...always felt I was being cleverly manipulated a la Blair Witch. The ostensible theme was the unreliability of on-line personae but so are screen documentaries. There was no way to ultimately judge what was true here...and maybe that was the final message.

Irritating jittery camera work...yet again. I can't wait until this fad passes. It's meant to convey a sense of realism but it just gets on my nerves. In this case it was so overly done that that helped raise my level of skepticism. But it did hold me all the way...I even watched the interviews afterwards.

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