This week in class we watched the movie catfish. The movie
has to do with a woman, named Angelia, who made up several other identities that
were not actually her and convince a man named Nev that the identities were
real. Nev received a painting of one of the photographs that he had taken in
the mail from a little girl, named Abby. He also got caught up in a romantic
relationship with a girl named Megan who was Abby’s older sister. After a while
Nev became wise to what was happening and found out that Angelia was making up
the entire situation. The question was asked in class whether Angelia’s actions
were morally right or wrong. I believe that what Angelia did was morally wrong.
She was constantly lying to Nev and was withholding the entire situation from
her husband. The situation did bring good for everyone. Angelia grew in the
fact that she was an honest enough person that she admitted that she did lie
and she made up the entire story. Nev also was able to grow through the
situation by forgiving her for what she had done and he was also able to make a
lot of money from the movie he made and also the tv show he stars in. However, even
though there were many good results that were brought by what happened I still
believe that it was a morally wrong thing to do. By the first categorical
imperative you are unable to will the maxim of her lies as a universal law.
Therefore that immediately causes the entire situation to be morally wrong. Angelia
also was having romantic feelings with Nev which is morally wrong because she
is already married to her husband and she made a promise to always love him and
only him and by having romantic feelings for Nev she was cheating on her
husband. This is why I feel that the entire situation was morally wrong.
The idea of multiple personalities isn't wrong, but how she did it was, in my opinion. the immoral part. She mislead several people and even started a romantic relationship with Nev, then lied to his face even after he confronted her and she admitted it. To each their own, though. Live your life however you can. Doesn't mean everyone will be happy, doesn't mean it's the best way.
ReplyDeleteI believe that Angela's actions were morally wrong, but what I can't stop thinking about is how Nev sees this situation. I think that he is probably annoyed and a little hurt by it, but now that he has a TV show from it, I'm sure he is happy that it happened. New was the true victim, and I feel like he is the only one who can judge whether what Angela did was morally right or wrong.
ReplyDeleteI feel as though people do a lot of crazy things for "love". Angela had a lot of regrets in her life, as I am sure we all do, but the difference was that hers are not so reversible. By that I mean, if I fail a test or even flunk my whole freshman year, I can just do better next year. Angela's early pregnancy was something that she at least dealt with for 18 years and after that you can not go back to being a child. What she did was not something you would ever recommend someone else to do, but it's hard to judge her also. After all, she did have good intentions. She reached out to someone she cared about as we all do, and tried to portray herself in a light that made her seem different/more suitable than she was. We all do this to varying degrees. She did not scam him out of money, and she was not a serial killer trying to lure him in. She is just a woman who wanted to be appreciated as an artist and a woman. You could say her sole was disordered, but I think she went into it doing something she loved, painting, and got caught up in her own story.
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