This spoiler special for the movie Catfish is an excerpt from Slate's Culture Gab Fest,

featuring Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner. Like all spoiler specials,

this is meant to be heard after you've seen the movie, or if you don't mind having key plot

points revealed. And now, here's Stephen Metcalf. Catfish, as I understand, it was a huge

buzz generating hit at Sundance.

It's now in release.

It's out in theaters.

It's a documentary that I will say is almost impossible to talk about without spoiling.

And we've made the, the three of us have made the decision that it really is impossible to talk

about unless you spoil it.

So if you're planning on going to see the movie and you want to go in blind, you should absolutely fast forward through this segment. Right?

We're agreed. You cannot talk about this without giving away the essence of what happens.

But then after you see it, you really, really want to talk about it. You have to talk about.

I mean, so, Dana, I don't know what you thought of this movie. I haven't seen your spoiler special or read your review. I'm dying to know. What did you think of catfish? Well, you know, I have an almost unreservedly positive opinion of the movie. And yet, I don't think it's necessarily, you know, the first film of some up and coming great young new filmmakers. It's sort of one of those accident documentaries where the things that unfolded, the events that unfolded during the course of filming are what make it so interesting. I'm not sure that the filmmakers are completely at the level of the material, but it's absolutely

as a document, something that's worth seeing and worth talking about. I totally agree with you.

Talk about the set of accidents that go into the making of the movie, the creating of the movie.

Okay, so these three young men, well, I guess two young men who directed the movie, who you just named Henry Juist and Ariel Schulman, and the brother of Ariel Schulman, whose name is Neve Yaniv

Schulman, pretty much seem to document everything in their lives, right? They share an office

in downtown Manhattan. They're very young. They're in their early 20s, I believe, or mid-20s,

and they're just documenters in that way of the Facebook generation,

right? They seem to shoot footage of everything interesting or not. And as it happens in the course

of this movie, some interesting things happened. So Yaniv Shulman, Neve, who's a photographer,

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