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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 5235840, member: 833"] Anora is wildly overrated. My biggest issue with the movie is that Mikey Madison is so unlikable as Anora that she comes off like she is running a scam on Ivan. There is no subtlety in her performance, and I have a hard time understanding why Ivan even falls for her. Why did she win best actress? The movie honestly would have been more interesting if it turns out she was running a scam on Ivan. Mark Eydelshteyn's Ivan is the only interesting character in the entire movie, playing an emotionally stunted oligarch's son. Igor has a little depth, and the rest of the Zakharov family and entourage are stereotypes. The movie tries to say something about class and love, but there is way too much filler and a lot of random events that do not make sense and do not provide character development. It also feels like a lot of the first half of the movie consists of montages. [SPOILER]The search for Ivan was ridiculous. First, the scene was about 20 minutes too long. We didn't need a long, drawn out fetch quest scene that doesn't have much of anything to do with the core plot. It also makes the whole movie jump the shark. In a movie trying to be gritty and realistic, about 20 different people would have called the cops if a crew looking like that showed up in a dozen different places acting nuts, physically and verbally abusing everyone they come in contact with, while looking for a rich kid. And why didn't she run at any of 10 different points? How did she know they would not just kill her once they found Ivan? Why didn't she tell the judge that she was being held against her will? And a street smart girl would never get on a plane with that crew. Why does the movie switch gears with 30 minutes left and try to develop a relationship between Anora and Igor? The final scene of the movie doesn't make sense. It is clear that Igor is falling for her, she recognizes it, and abuses him anyway for the last 20 minutes which he deserves. I don't get the point of that, but fine. Then, at the very end, she tries to manipulate him with sex, completely initiating it, but then breaks down sobbing when he tries to kiss her. That scene feels gratuitous, and I can not figure out what it is trying to say about either character. It is a big plot problem when everyone starts doing random things that don't make sense, because then nothing anyone does matters.[/SPOILER] [/QUOTE]

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