{"id":245,"date":"2010-09-17T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/2010\/09\/17\/is-catfish-real\/"},"modified":"2010-09-17T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T11:00:00","slug":"is-catfish-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/2010\/09\/17\/is-catfish-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Catfish real?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Casey Affleck has already admitted that his bizarre &#8220;documentary&#8221; of Joaquin Phoenix <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/10\/movies\/10imstill.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>I&#8217;m Still Here<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;<\/em>was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/17\/movies\/17affleck.html\" target=\"_blank\">staged<\/a>, essentially a self-destructive two-year-long performance piece. <\/p>\n<p>What about <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/17\/movies\/17catfish.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Catfish<\/em><\/a>? <\/p>\n<p>The filmmakers <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.moviefone.com\/2010\/09\/16\/catfish-real-fake-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\">insist that it is<\/a>. Discerning viewers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movieline.com\/2010\/01\/does-sundance-sensation-catfish-have-a-truth-problem.php?page=all\" target=\"_blank\">beg to differ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Is it life imitating <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Night_Listener_(film)\" target=\"_blank\">art<\/a>, or is it merely <a href=\"http:\/\/splag.livejournal.com\/61403.html\" target=\"_blank\">art imitating art<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t seen Catfish, and don&#8217;t intend to. But hey, it&#8217;s the internet, so I believe that makes me fully qualified to offer an opinion: the footage is, for the most part, real, but the filmmakers knew what was going on early on and manipulated the events to their liking. <\/p>\n<p>Does it matter whether it&#8217;s real? Yes, it does. All documentaries expose the viewpoints of their creators to some extent, but my guess is that this one crosses far enough over the line of manipulation to make it worthless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casey Affleck has already admitted that his bizarre &#8220;documentary&#8221; of Joaquin Phoenix I&#8217;m Still Here&nbsp;was staged, essentially a self-destructive two-year-long performance piece. What about Catfish? The filmmakers insist that it is. Discerning viewers beg to differ. Is it life imitating &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/2010\/09\/17\/is-catfish-real\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1c91x-3X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}