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Indeed, yeah and we didn't get much of an idea why Anora so badly wants to escape her life. Sure, her profession has its obvious bad sides but we didn't get to see anything too toxic or dangerous from her work environment or we don't see if her work causes her to get stigmatised. She didn't seem unhappy in her life and she also had a decent house to live. Then suddenly that ending happens and what I'm supposed to take it from that? Should I feel sorry for her?
Almost baffling to me that it's the favorite to win all these Oscars. Can't get "groundbreaking!!" comments as well. At the end of the day, the film didn't show me anything I didn't or wouldn't know about Brighton Beach Russian community or the sex workers in general. The materialistic, ice-cold female character is not necessarily something new in the films? Or those over-the-top henchmen? That oligarch parent couple that felt like straight out of soap operas? Truly strange.
I disliked the film as well but I don't agree with your take, I don't think she ever thought he's going to care about her or anything in a romantic way but she saw him as an easy money, easy access to have a comfortable and more stable life. It's not a love story. I didn't think she was much surprised when she found out that the marriage is not going to survive, hence you can see she wasn't shocked when she found out that he was hanging out with other women in the end. She's not Julia Roberts in "Pretty Woman" but a much more cold, and self-centered person. Hence, that's also why I didn't like the film much. She didn't have to be "likeable" or even good but her being the way she is makes it hard for me to be moved by the ending. I think the film was just generally confused, it didn't want to be sex-negative film that looks down on sex workers but the ending bit feels like it.
The mid-act "comedy" sequences were especially annoying. I found the henchmen characters almost caricaturish and badly acted, save for Igor, the only saving grace of the film. If the entire film was about their relationship, maybe it'd work better.
Sean Baker is a good, humanist filmmaker. I expected better from him.
I didn't like the film much, but that's not the film said at all? The sex worker isn't "good" by any means, she doesn't do anything good during the entire film. And the white male is a man-child, yes, but hardly the villain.
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