How does a civilian girl cheat the entire New York celebrity circle and get a luxurious life for free? One word "pretend" is enough.
Netflix's "Fictional Anna" is a remake of real social events, in addition to the addition of some details, even the name of the heroine is used in the real name.
In 2017, a celebrity appeared in New York social circles, Anna Delvi, who claimed to be from The mysterious German Delvi family, which controls the oil from Russia to Germany. She, on the other hand, is the heir to the Delvi family, and the $60 million trust fund will be available to her when she turns 26.
On the photos of her social accounts, there are jokes and jokes, not intimate conversations with artists, or private jets to Buffett's secret banquets.
In her self-description, she is not yet a hollow celebrity who is satisfied with a luxurious life, she has a career ambition, to become an art club in New York, to integrate art into noble life, and to subvert the status quo of the world club.
She took a fancy to the well-known buildings in the heart of New York and hired a large group of top designers, art agencies, and chefs as her consultants.
He also hired a Wall Street partner-level investment adviser to lobby the banks for him, and if it weren't for the fact that Wall Street, which saw real money, blocked her at the last minute, perhaps she really became a validation of the chicken soup: "Fake it till you make it." (Success, start with pretending)
The bank delayed in giving loans, and her luxurious life gradually became full of loopholes, first her friends broke out that she did not repay the loan, and then the W Hotel reported that she was in arrears in the room rate, and the painting skin of the pseudonym was torn apart.
A liar is a combination of a madman and a self-taught psychologist. Anna has a very accurate pulse of the Rich New Yorkers, knowing that luxury packaging, superficial rhetoric and confident and unreasonable tone can give her a green light.
Supposedly, with a well-developed network of connections, the rich only need to make a few phone calls to determine whether the so-called Delvi family is true or false, but they do not, they believe in their own judgment, believe in the taste of speech and clothing, and the recommendations of those around them.
The luxurious life has always been paid for by the people around her, she asked her friends to borrow money on the pretext that it was inconvenient to wire transfer from Europe to the United States, etc. The rich people do not care about small money, and if they do not pay it back, they will not pay it back. She worked in fashion magazines and had many opportunities to meet designers and artists, so she followed the vines and climbed the strings, successfully creating a sense of déjà vu of a socialite.
A plot was added to the play in which Anna stole four hundred thousand dollars from the credit card of a rich woman, who chose to settle down. For them, losing money is small, saving face is big. Moreover, for them, it only takes one phone call to recover the loss of credit card theft.
At the end of Anna's play, she believed it. At trial, she insisted that she was not a liar, especially rejecting the lawyer's defense of her use of "loser" and "vain child", after all, she was so similar to her impostors, from taste to hobbies to temperament — love of superficial dramatization.
During the trial, she hired top designers to create an image for herself, used the courtroom as a runway, and even angered the judge by being two hours late because the costumes were not satisfactory.
In the story of the liar, the protagonist is never just the one who performs the deception, but also how the victim is caught in the psychological loophole, why the liar's fans are obsessed with him, are all interesting collections of human nature stories.
She may not be a pure lunatic, but the characteristics of a narcissistic personality are very obvious. This kind of personality problem is the easiest to capture people with inferiority inside and pay for them.
Through sensational news, she not only gained a large number of fans, but also fascinated the lawyers and the reporters who covered her story.
The reporter was willing to go to Germany at his own expense to find her parents and old friends, trying to find out why she had become like this now.
The lawyer in the play marries the real celebrity of New York high society, but his legal career is not improving, he constantly shuttles between the glamorous life and the barren work, and sees a girl who boldly tears the mask of high society, and sincerely admires. During the trial, she was excused by empathy: "Each of us has an Anna in our hearts... She is not a deliberate cheater. ”
Man is muqiang's animal.
This is perhaps why, since ancient times, the stories of liars have always been fascinating. All kinds of rogues haunt folk tales, and are pinned on various chivalrous spirits, or the title of dreamer.
For most people who live a dull life, big dreams, big feats, and great revolutions are always exciting. Like lightning that illuminates the night, or, fireworks.
However, fireworks and lightning cannot survive forever.
I don't think Anna is really strong, she does have some cleverness, boldness and fantasy. But lack of real courage to undertake reality and land hard, so it can only live as a decorative firework.
True strength is to accept the limitations of reality and build the future with one hand and one foot. For example, don't drop out of school, finish st. Martin and learn to become a real designer or curator. For example, do a good internship, through the career channel, and do a slow but solid promotion.
What changes the world is not fireworks, but the real art of looking at reality. Nostalgic for the decorative surface is a kind of conclusive weakness of personality.
In May 2019, Anna was sentenced to 12 years in prison and paid $200,000 in damages and a $24,000 fine. However, because of her good performance in prison, she was released after only two years in prison. After being released from prison, she continued her career as a celebrity on social platforms. ICE wants to deport her, and at the moment, she is in the process of appealing and trying her best to stay in New York.
After the case became famous, her social platform fans skyrocketed. At the same time, Netflix took a fancy to her story and spent a huge amount of money to buy the copyright of the story. She is also said to have written an autobiography while in prison. If she can stay in New York, it is unknown where the story will go.
Anna Delvi, how many holes in the human heart will be reflected in the future.