The documentary is a great example. You meet little girl who is a child prodigy painter, with an older brother who plays in a band, a father, and a cool and extremely attractive mother. Then there is the attractive older sister who who writes music, paints, flies to the moon, and owns a horse farm. Now you have a 20 something photographer from New York who is naive enough to believe such a blatant tall tale for six months. When he meets the family he finds a 40 year old women and her husband who both know who he is, but look totally different from what he has come to know. There he meets two handicapped sons, a little girl who rarely paints at all, and finds the attractive daughter, who he has fallen for, to be a drunk who has no idea he exists. The whole thing was just a big lie by a house wife who even had her daughter in on the scheme. She did all of this just so she could paint his picture. If that's what she wanted to do, what was everything else for?
Friday, December 5, 2014
Lying is pointless
Lying is a pretty illogical thing to do. There is a chance the lie can stop after the first one. There is also the chance that it won't. You will likely have to keep making up lies to cover your original one. You will always have to be a few steps ahead of the person you are lying to in order to keep them from finding out. In the end you are just putting undue stress on yourself for something that is likely not worth the effort. Then what happens when the truth comes out? The more lies you have to tell the closer you will be to getting caught. You will likely make a mistake, such as leaving evidence of your deceit, thinking people won't check up on you. Perhaps you forget lies you told someone and say something that contradicts an earlier statement. Maybe the lies just get so elaborate that the person calls your bluff and you crack under pressure. What do you think will happen when a person realizes you are untruthful? Even if they take pity on you like the main character in Catfish, it's a good chance that the whole thing will still ruin your relationship. After the relationship is ruined you will have done all of this for nothing.
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The lie that the lady was making up for herself was because he like was not something that she might have imagined for herself. She has a family and has a home, but who is to day that she is truly happy with how things turned our for her. Maybe she was not happy with the way she looked and therefore created a whole new world for her to live in, a sort of utopia for her. It may not have been then best form of better herself but this is something that helped by and possibly made her happy for a short time. She did tell Nev that she knew that he would find out the truth but that did not stop her. This shows that she was just taking advantage of the time that she has to pretend to be someone she wanted to be.
ReplyDeleteI believe that Angela was using her fake profile as "Megan" as an escape from her reality. As we saw in the documentary, Angela posed as an attractive 20 something year old who was full of great qualities and physical attributes. Her deepest desires were expressed through the fake profile she invented. I sympathize with her in the sense that I too want to be taken out of my reality at times. With that said, it is extremely dishonest to lie to a person for six months to make them fall for you with lies and presences. I was very impressed with the way Neiv handle the situation. I do not think I would have it in me to be as understanding as he was.
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