Analysis Catch Me If You Can

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Catch Me If You Can is an extremely compelling film, filled with humor, suspense, and numerous twists and turns that will keep one's eyes fixed at the screen from the beginning to the end, and one that I had really enjoyed as well. The producers of the film had more than successfully portrayed the true life story in a way that manages to captivate audience as well as express the shrewdness of the actual Frank Abegnale in real life. From this movie, one can learn that sometimes mischievous and impetuous of one's teenage life, as well as necessity, hard work, and determination can lead to true passion, the key to success in the real world.

Do not be mistaken, but this story is not one that urges to express moral, business and ethical virtues that one needs to possess in a business-like film. It is a story of a desperate man who lied and impersonates himself to get money and jobs for a living. As a not-so-typical teenager, Abegnale was an observant guy who takes notes of his surroundings and use them to his own advantage. The examples when he gained an upper hand from this particular characters are countless, including a payback on a bully by pretending to be a substitute teacher or evading an FBI capture by faking as a Secret Agent. But of those, the most important was the act of forging checks, which would be the turn point in his life and the center of the actions that would later take part in this film.

It is his very lying, ever snake-like nature and the way that the other people so willingly accept his lies for truth that people would enjoy most from. It cannot be denied that we all laugh at the look on his face when he walked out from his hotel with all of his 'evidence', leaving the officer stunned and cursing after him. Or...

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...text would tell the time and the setting of the place. Such were the way the story was presented, and is what makes the story so realistic as well.

To sum it up, this is no doubt one of the best films I have watched so far in its genre, and I would likely recommend it to those interested as well. With its hidden messages, truths, values, as well as entertainment, funny scripts and indisputable plots and effects, Catch Me If You can would keep your eyes glued to the screen from the minute the screen starts rolling to the very end. Of course, excess risqué scenes, and plot flaws are present here and there, but it is no doubt a film very unchallengeable in terms of quality. It is truly a wonderful, entertaining masterpiece one would look for, and an amazing, compact recollection of a man who has become a legend within a decent amount of time. I had really enjoyed it.

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