There is a sidestepping of the traditional dialogue surrounding image manipulation and young women Anna isn’t editing her physical appearance, but the branding of her reputation. Charming, smart, and unassuming proves a perfect concoction to winning over people and their wallets. One glance at Anna’s Instagram and you wouldn’t be blamed for believing she was the latest “it” girl or thriving influencer. The show illustrates how Anna’s greatest tactic is to make herself easily consumable through an aesthetic that has mass appeal from yachts in Ibiza to the front row of New York fashion week. As Vivian’s investigation delves deeper, Inventing Anna zooms in closer on the relationship between Anna and her social media existence. “The more I know, the less I know,” Vivian professes, sifting through Instagram posts like they’re court papers. The sheer abundance of information Anna shared in the social media stratosphere (geotags, recorded dates, tagging who she was with, whether she was currently blonde, brunette, or strawberry blonde-it is all there) almost instantly discounts her from suspicion but, ultimately, left the clues for her downfall. A sordid timeline that is like a gigantic puzzle of Instagram-sized pieces, Vivian goes about trying to connect the dots between Anna’s social feed posts when she realizes how Instagram is this con artist’s greatest asset. Investigative journalist Vivian (Anna Chlumsky) is introduced wading through Anna’s (Julia Garner) case while pregnant, and redecorating her child’s nursery wall with Anna’s Instagram posts. But what Inventing Anna calls into question is how social media can go beyond simply an embellishment, it can be a cataloged portfolio of legitimacy through which public perception can be swindled and cultural relevance can be obtained. It’s not a new observation for the square image app Instagram has been the focus of conversations surrounding the falsehood of a curated reality for a number of years now.
ANNA DELVEY INSTAGRAM SERIES
From the perspective of a journalist unraveling Anna’s case, Shonda Rhimes’ 9-part limited series inspects how this eponymous anti-hero and pseudo-socialite used social media as her secret weapon to lie her way up the social ranks for money and fame.Īfter the collage-like title screen gives a glimpse into the luxurious, champagne-sipping lifestyle of this unassuming fraudster, Inventing Anna displays an integrated title card caveat that reads: “this whole story is completely true, except for all the parts that are totally made up.” Such a statement could easily be the tagline for Instagram.
Netflix’s Inventing Anna, an adaptation of Jessica Pressler’s viral 2018 New York Magazine article “How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People,” plays like an investigative crime drama.
From 2013 to 2017, Delvey (aka Anna Sorokin) managed to con New York’s socialite scene into believing she was a multi-millionaire German heiress by swindling and defrauding banks, hotels, and “friends” with the ambition to build her own private members’ club and art foundation for which she nearly secured? $25 million. Anna Delvey took the advice “fake it ‘til you make it” a little too literally.
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