I actually thought this was very good, and that Julia Garner was excellent. People complain about her voice, but who knows what her accent was - she was Russian, she was German - I think it was fine.
This is a true story and not an unusual one. Someone with confidence and panache fools a bunch of people into giving her millions of dollars. She supposedly has huge money back home about to be released to her. Somehow it never is. She goes on a trip to Morocco and puts her friend in the hole for $67,000.
I'm not sure whether or not we're supposed to be pity Anna. She has a legitimate dream, of building an arts complex, and I suppose if she'd actually gotten the money she might have built it. I don't feel sorry for the banks she tried to swindle; I do feel sorry for her friends. And I don't feel sorry for her.
In one of the courtroom scenes, her friend that was bilked out of all that money (credit cards) is made to look like a fool on the stand because, after not being paid back and losing her job, went on to sell her story and make inroads in journalism. Well, she wouldn't have done any of that if Anna hadn't cheated her.
These stories always amaze me - Clark Rockefeller, Anna Devry, the Tinder Swindler, Enron, Bernie Madoff, and all these guys in Nigeria who bilk widows out of thousands of dollars - I guess people want to believe the fantasy and don't ask any questions.
The banks, however, in this case did due diligence and in the end didn't give her any money. Unusual for them, since they gave Enron millions when it had no product and a bunch of dummy corporations.
Really makes you wonder.
This is a true story and not an unusual one. Someone with confidence and panache fools a bunch of people into giving her millions of dollars. She supposedly has huge money back home about to be released to her. Somehow it never is. She goes on a trip to Morocco and puts her friend in the hole for $67,000.
I'm not sure whether or not we're supposed to be pity Anna. She has a legitimate dream, of building an arts complex, and I suppose if she'd actually gotten the money she might have built it. I don't feel sorry for the banks she tried to swindle; I do feel sorry for her friends. And I don't feel sorry for her.
In one of the courtroom scenes, her friend that was bilked out of all that money (credit cards) is made to look like a fool on the stand because, after not being paid back and losing her job, went on to sell her story and make inroads in journalism. Well, she wouldn't have done any of that if Anna hadn't cheated her.
These stories always amaze me - Clark Rockefeller, Anna Devry, the Tinder Swindler, Enron, Bernie Madoff, and all these guys in Nigeria who bilk widows out of thousands of dollars - I guess people want to believe the fantasy and don't ask any questions.
The banks, however, in this case did due diligence and in the end didn't give her any money. Unusual for them, since they gave Enron millions when it had no product and a bunch of dummy corporations.
Really makes you wonder.