I will be explaining some of the various similarities between the films Catfish and Catch Me If You Can.
Catfish and Catch Me If You Can are very similar in a lot of aspects. The biggest similarity is that both films are about a person who is living a relatively huge lie. In Catfish, the person living the lie is female and uses the internet to disguise herself. Specifically, she uses Facebook to create multiple accounts for the different people she plays as. In Catch Me If You Can, a male lives the lie by becoming and living as a co-pilot, a doctor, and a lawyer. He was able to acquire these roles by knowing some of the on-the-job jargon and by hiding behind fake names. For both Angela and Frank, they never believed to be the people they pretended to be. Angela’s reasoning for creating the fake identities is because she does not like the current life she leads, and so she creates each account based on fragments of her personality that she wishes she could live out. Frank’s reason for creating his identities, however, is because he wants his mother and father to get back together. He believes that by earning back the money and things his parents had lost, that would make them happy and the family would get back together again. Another similarity is that Angela and Frank never stopped lying about their identities until someone found out the truth and forced their hand. When Nev first met with Angela, she did not act as if anything were wrong and even made up that she had ovarian cancer; however, when Nev finally confronted Angela about the fake accounts, she immediately surrendered and told Nev the truth about herself. In the first encounter with Carl, Frank pretends to be part of the Secret Service so he can get away. It is not until Frank is caught and ends up working for the FBI that he finally stops faking his identity.
Catfish and Catch Me If You Can have a lot of similarities between them. I have only explained three of them, but I am sure there are more.
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