Thoughts on "Catfish"

Thoughtlog began around 20 Minutes into the film, and notes were made continuously every couple/few scenes.

It's difficult to watch a film knowing that there is a twist, let alone having some conception of what that twist is, and then furthermore watching a film about facebook which is always about simulacrum anyway. This is further made difficult beacuse my modus operandi is to use facebook to maintain relationships made in the real world and not develop relationships like this because ya know--what apparently happens in this film.

Meanwhile, still, while watching this I want to play some games with the psyche of this story, which is to say both psyche as we mean it now, mind, and the older charging for it: spirit.

Interestingly enough, in the family of interest, there are three women, which can transcribe as the maiden, mother, and crone of myth and two men, which might encode as the "upper" and "lower" horns of the demon, the father being the horns on the head of the demon and the son being the lower horns, creature of the earth and the main challenger of hero Nev earlier in the film.

The whole system is clearly a little fracked, but it would seem that these people are a litle, shall we say, disturbed and, therefore, why shouldn't the be sucked into a world that one would presume expresses their psyche which is contained within a world already filled the possibility of doubt.

On the other hand, this is a a brilliant piece for people who have yet to discover what subjectivity is, which does not mean that it does not have its own value but that it might not be the most valuable thing in the project called subjectivity--wait their adress is 421? Also, good job trying to hide their locaiton on google maps when you displayed the road as you zoomed out and the adress number when you came to the house.

Like most films of a radical bent this film suggests, most of all, that you don't listen to your producers.

Also, clearly only us Jews could get ourselves this far into a fucked up adventure, but still carry along wondering what next magical thing will happen. Sometimes a satirical culture can be dangerous.

Also--and again: clearly, this is an adventure that keeps our heroes constantly challenged so they can't always be sure that they want to go through with the adventure and know what is real, the fundaments of any real adventure being the constant tension of--"should I stay or should I go?"

The beach front scene seems prime evidence for the film being a fabrication, judging at least by the quality of the shot against what they are actually doing, but we can only "trust" the filmmakers, right?

"Most people wouldn't go back," but they aren't most people!

Interestingly, this story could evolve into an introduction about deterritorialization, but it instead seems to have gone into the matrix suggesting that the entire network is fabricated.

Furthermore, where's the rest of the dinner party? That scene was fucking short! At this point, I can't really believe anything that the directors did, and, frankly, I believe that this film has more to do with trusting a director and the film project then it does actual people. That is probably the real point of this story, that, going up the ranks, can you trust an artist in the real world?

Based on the ends of the journey, the suggestion then is that the human imagination is apparently fairly extensive.

Wait a minute, lots of stuff about the twins, but where's something about Vince? ('Oh, wait, he pops in the end and ties everything up with a neat bow of common folk wisdom and faith and prayer.
Fucking yay.)

The film might also suggest that the artist is to not just document the real in the art and then create the real with art, because then are losing a grip on reality.

Now, if there is anything to learn from this film, it is that the word "friend" means a lot, and it is a bit irrational to say that you have 732 friends. But, then, again Facebook has never been something that had a GUI or a structure for subtlety in its description of things. Now, of course you can say whatever you want about most things, or at least there is some sapce somewhere that you can do as much--if not, you can create that space, and hopefully it isn't something that a moderator would snatch away, and, obviously--as the site has grown, pernicious behavior by those who run the site has decreased.

Still, there's no reason to feel bad for anyone here. They were all quite conscious of what could be unfolding for them, but, somehow, they "rationalized" things. If anything, this is more proof for my argument that the use of logic is not always logical, or not always pure--at least in its grounding. Or maybe people need more experiences of ego-death and humbling in their lives, a little more zen buddhism, though bon-po would be a good idea if they can get a grasp of that.