Inventing Anna
(Picture: Nicole Rivelli/Netflix)The best parts of movies about con artists are the bits where you see how they pulled it off. A deft switcheroo here, that innocent-looking guy being integral to the whole dastardly trick. Maybe you’re the person figuring out the con really early and going on about it so your flatmate can’t hear the actual explanation at the end. But we’re all united in one thing when it comes to scammers: curiosity. Why did they do it? How did they get away with it? And why on earth did anyone believe them?
For 2022, streaming services have picked up on the scam and are hell-bent on deluging us with stories about the art of the con. If you’ve not been gasping at the payday loan debts accrued by the women targeted by the Tinder Swindler, then you’ve been picking over how the upper echelons of Manhattan society couldn’t see through Anna Delvey’s Con 101 big sunglasses. And if you haven’t, what have you been doing through the dank start to the year? Actually having a real, authentic life not paid for by Ponzi scheming your lovers?
