Inventing Anna
2022 TV-MA Limited Series
Captivating. That's what this one is. Innescapable, once you're in the grip of the drama. So if the first episode doesn't hit you as your kind of material, you should turn it off before it's too late. The journey we take with this young lady is not really about her at all. Ok, wait...although that's true, it also sounds like the show's "disclaimer" really, wherein every episode has a giant and unmistakable text near the start that reads, "This whole story is completely true. Except for the parts that are totally made up".
Ok, but really...it's not about Anna Delvey/Sorokin, as fascinating as she is. It is indeed about our indulgent and glittery self-serving culture that could even conceivably spawn something like Anna. It IS based on the completely true story of Anna Sorokin, aka Delvey, and that, if you're not in the know about, you'll just have to research for yourself to find out the dissimilarities, if you like, but there are few. I could over-write this and make much of the cultural implications, but honestly, I found this piece of cinematic "journalism" enlightening, entertaining, engrossing, and revealing. It's revealing mostly if we look at ourselves through this lens, IF we happen to be one of the personality types present and accounted for in the lineup of victims and perps. Anna is both, it seems, victim and perpetrator, although in the end I don't think (warning, authorial opinionated position here) that we still know exactly what created Anna, other than possibly a hole in childhood that was left wide open to the overwhelming nature of pop society at large, and most specifically that of the $ and fashion worlds, the "Center of the world" as Anna puts it. She wanted to be there, in the center of it.
It DOES tell us a great deal about our current culture's obsessions, and their failings, and is in high contrast with the relationships that surround her, and the strain that those obsessions may bring to bear on us.
So, for an enlightening and emotional trip I'd say was worth the undertaking, Inventing Anna is worth the indulgence, pardon my persistent puns.
- Agitatus
Captivating. That's what this one is. Innescapable, once you're in the grip of the drama. So if the first episode doesn't hit you as your kind of material, you should turn it off before it's too late.
Ok, but really...it's not about Anna Delvey/Sorokin, as fascinating as she is. It is indeed about our indulgent and glittery self-serving culture that could even conceivably spawn something like Anna. It IS based on the completely true story of Anna Sorokin, aka Delvey, and that, if you're not in the know about, you'll just have to research for yourself to find out the dissimilarities, if you like, but there are few.
- Agitatus
