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olivermoss) wrote2022-02-19 08:04 pm
olivermoss) wrote2022-02-19 08:04 pm
Final post on Inventing Anna
The good - They show the role social pressures play when it comes to approving funding for the highest end of society. The show features the higher of the 1%, it's the 0.05%. Not quite the 0.01% like Bezo and co, but people who are rich by the standards of low-end 1%ers. When your peer group is that small you don't fuck up their projects.
I can buy that the funding didn't get due diligence due to both that and also the profit potential of the project.
OMG Racquetball and racquetball clubs! Are those really still a thing? Those courts were giving me 90s flashbacks.
The bad - Literally everything else. Anna just laying hundos on the table to skip a line? No, honey no, high end society is not that flash especially on the east coast among the old money. Her whole thing, allegedly, was seeming like old money.
I wanted to finish the story, see where it went. But I table-flipped when she laid money on a table to cut a line. Just, so many layers of no. In NYC you don't even tip openly. You palm money to people. The cash flows are hidden. Cutting lines does happen. When it does it's because the person is known, is a VIP or or on a list. If it's a bribe it's a covert one. In NYC if a line was skipped due to flashing cash... just no. The people in line would not tolerate that.
Cash is crass. Upper class polish is signalling waiters and paying the bill without your quests even noticing. Create a fantasy like money doesn't exist, we just go places and food appears and wine is brought and then we walk out into the night like we'd been guests, not customers. At many fine NYC eateries, the menus don't have prices unless you are the one paying. It's all about that illusion.
I don't know if the writers were ill-informed or if they just changed shit into what they assumed would be fun for the audience.
Also, the whole 'boyfriend didn't know her real name' thing continues to be a plot point.
Well, that shortens my to-watch list. Might re-watch Ocean's 11 or something to cleanse my mental palette.
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Or maybe it's more about selling the fantasy from the other side - the idea of how it would feel to be drawn into her circle
That's a very good point. It was like they just went for certain emotional beats and didn't much care how they got there. It's like a fantasy of easily breaking in or getting swept up in her wake. A bunch of wish fulfillment that makes no sense just doesn't work for me... especially since it involves things I am familiar with like NYC and air travel.
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I think a lot of it was portrayed in a very wish-fulfillment way, despite how badly it all ends. The idea that you too could somehow con your way into this lifestyle for a while, or that someone could bring you along for the ride... Idk, I'm not terribly familiar with a lot of it, and bits of it still felt weird. I imagine there's plenty else that was off that I just don't understand well enough to see!
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I think I saw something about her planning to write her own book and like... a podcast or something? Of course.
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