“Inventing Anna” and the Importance of Bias in Perspective
So I watched “Inventing Anna” about the Anna “Delvey” Sorokin and I also read the article from Vanity Fair article “ Inventing Anna Is a “Dangerous” Distortion, Says Rachel Williams”https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/02/inventing-anna-delvey-netflix-real-rachel-williams. Rachel Williams was portrayed as disloyal and a “user” on the show while Anna’s other friends are shown as simply being drawn in by charisma. I wondered why she would be portrayed as the only person in Anna’s circle who “took advantage” of a rich friend (ignoring the irony that Anna literally is the one actually taking advantage of people - poor and rich alike). Why is Rachel being portrayed as a user in a bad way but Anna is portrayed as a user in a sexy way?
I also read the interview with her old friend Neff Davis who is the only one of her old friends still on her side. This is what shed to light on Rachel’s portrayal to me. Neff consulted on the show. The original reporter also helped make the show. Which REALLY explains the glamorizing of Anna and making her look like such a genius when there is no real proof she was one to the degree she wants to be seen as one. Why they glamorized how she looked, acted, dressed, and made her seem like a twisted genius. Also blamed her parents who are just working class people who there is no evidence did anything wrong.
I don’t mind conning rich people. Fuck the rich. Eat the rich. They are garbage. I love me a good guillotine. But how Anna treated service workers and non-wealthy friends like Rachel is pretty gross tbh. The show has been called out by everyone (Even Anna - despite her still using the money to pay her court fees). There are dumb perspectives here. The reporter and Anna are just...two shallow characters tbh who the show tries and fails to make us sympathize with. Idk. I liked the show. But I find the way characters are portrayed to be largely fictional. I’m taking it all with a grain of salt. It is a show that glamorizes Anna to give her the fame that she wants and that also give reporter, Jessica Pressler, a chance to further save her own reputation after the Mohammed Islam debacle...
It just feels...so biased. It is for Anna to get fame and money and Jessica to take a center stage. And for our entertainment. I’m refusing to take any of it as real events. But the show was a fun watch.
