The Movie Catfish and Internet Dating Deceit

Recently I've had a revelation about the direction that my blogging should take the rest of this year and I will tell you why.

It all began when I sat down and watched the 20/20 television show that I'd taped on my DVR about the new release of the movie Catfish, which strangely enough I can somehow identify with.

Now I am sure your asking why? Well its because while watching 20/20, they asked viewers to try and figure out for themselves who is telling the big lie and who is using whom.

20/20 then shows the way "Catfish" the movie first began and then how it all played out in real life and how it was documented thoroughly on film by three young New York City filmmakers.

For one it starts out simply enough with one of the young men being taken with an eight year old young girl's painting ability and then overtime being introduced into her life and through the Internet and emails being introduced to all the people in her life. I immediately put the show on pause and told my girlfriend that from my past experience on the Internet I would bet that the young girl ends up actually being the mother and her painting ability hadn't been well received so she has dreamed up a way to scam people that she is her young daughter. At that point in the show they were showing that the young man was being told that the young girl's paintings were being grabbed up by art dealers and sold for thousands of dollars, making him feel I'm sure overwhelmed by the amount of money the paintings he had received were possibly worth.

Anyway pushing forward into story, the young man gets quickly involved with supposedly the young girl's older sister, through emails, pictures and actual phone conversations. 20/20 goes on to reveal, just as in the movie that the young man has been deceived in every possible way by what would be the mother of young girl. A much different mother, housewife and struggling artist from Michigan, who not only had deceived him on the actually painter of the pictures but who had also deceived him about the young woman he had fell head over heels for, who was supposed to be the bigger sister.

The young man admits to 20/20 later in the show that he essentially found himself in this whole mess, because it possibly was the new path he had been looking for, or it had come just at the right time in his life. After all he had been looking for a new direction. He stated that in some instances he felt he should have in hind sight maybe seen things. I think his friend said it best, when he stated the reason his friend believed was because he wanted it so badly. After all when someone wants something so badly in their life they're willing to overlook all of the warning signs, much like wearing blinders.

So this brings me to my new found path for my blogging. Basically, I've decided to chronicle my experiences with Internet dating and the search for Mr. Right versus Mr. Wrong. Highlighting the Mr. Wrong from past experiences and the overwhelming deceit that exists on the Internet.

Anyone that wants to can follow my blogging on the Internet by simply searching for my name or going to my profile on Associated Content. This article will be only the beginning of my review of the movie "Catfish", as well as my own roller-coaster ride documentation through Internet dating hell.

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References for this article include: www.moviesonline.ca/2010/10/catfish-movie-review/
abcnews.go.com/2020/catfish-movie-tale-twisted-cyber-romance/story