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"Earlier this monthm a little film called The Social Network was released. Superficially it&amp;#039;s about Facebook but at its heart it&amp;#039;s about people. The same is broadly true of Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost&amp;#039;s Catfish. It&amp;#039;s a film about something which happens on Facebook but the site is secondary to the people involved. If you are intending to see the film you might actually want to stop reading here as I genuinely regretted knowing too much of what happens. Nev is a photographer. Out of the blue, an 8-year-old girl named Abby sends him a painting of one of his pictures and the pair apparently begin to exchange messages over Facebook. Gradually Nev gets to know her extended family and begins a tentative long-distance relationship with her older half-sister Megan. His brother (Ariel) and friend (Henry) start making a documentary about child prodigy Abby but a casual visit to a search engine reveals inconsistencies in Megan&amp;#039;s story. The documentary then morphs into a fact-finding mission where Nev, Ariel and Henry travel across the country trying to unpick truth from fiction. If you&amp;#039;re hoping for grand drama and confrontation you should probably see the other social media movie - this is a film involving polite people who find themselves in a bizarre situation. As Henry notes during one car journey, they don&amp;#039;t want to humiliate anyone. It also feels hugely at odds with current &amp;#039;reality&amp;#039; documentary making - at points Nev point blank refuses to bare his soul to the camera rather than confessionalising his experiences. There have been claims that the whole thing was staged and several sections do feel contrived but, regardless, it&amp;#039;s gripping, heartfelt and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny, only let down by a directionless ending.  &amp;gt; What do you think of the movie? Share your views "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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