People who do this are morons. It's a scene with a bunch of Eastern European goons and a Brooklyn sex worker. Should they be speaking like it's Shakespeare?
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People who do this are morons. It's a scene with a bunch of Eastern European goons and a Brooklyn sex worker. Should they be speaking like it's Shakespeare?
CreepyMcCreeperson
Veteran
It’ll be on Hulu in a few weeks, or you can rent it on Prime
King Harlem
Superstar
He married her to spite his parents, his mother in particular. Annie nailed it.Sorry, but I would act just like his parents. You’re not marrying a stripper, and embarrassing us like that. My grandchildren’s mother won’t be a prostitute. She had the nerve to be appalled when they kept calling her that. You gave him a lap dance at the strip club, then a house call for sex. Then he asked you to go on vacation, you charged him 15K, and spontaneously agreed to marry him. Yeah, that makes you a prostitute.
The marketing of this film as a love story is misleading. It was two young adults having fun. She was the first girl to give him good sex, and he briefly caught feelings. She was just in it for money, and to escape the stripper life.
Diondon
Thanks to the lawyers uh, I marbled the foyer
Abso-frickn-lutely
Why was that Russian bald guy nice to her, when she was a fukken c*nt to him?
It is because he realized they are in the same socioeconomic class, was he attracted to her, is he a retard? LMAO
Movie was good, there was parts that should have cut to make it less than 2 hours.
It is because he realized they are in the same socioeconomic class, was he attracted to her, is he a retard? LMAO
Movie was good, there was parts that should have cut to make it less than 2 hours.
No I didn't see it that way.Just watched and it was good but I wasn't amazed. Haven't seen most of the best picture nominees so I can't say whether the award was justified. I feel like it dragged a bit but for a low budget indie movie it was solid.
Went back a few pages and didn't see anyone mention this but am I the only one who thought they were hinting at Anora being a rape victim? She said Igor had rapist eyes, there was the scene where she was yelling and they thought she was yelling rape, and the way she reacted when Igor tried to kiss her made me wonder if that's the case.
I thought she was just a money chasing sex worker but those "rape" scenes seemed to be adding more backstory to why she is the way that she is.
She tried to fight Igor off then broke down crying. She had no problem kissing earlier in the movie. It could be that this was intimate and not transactional but it seems to be more than that. Maybe sex is just business to her because someone she tried to be intimate with abused her. Igor going for this kiss brought her back to a traumatic moment hence her breaking down. It seems like Igor understood that and that's why he held her.
Lastly Mikey Madison is fine as hell
That said, sex workers have a high chance of being raped though.
I thought that whole thing with Igor was transactional, like she sensed that he was attracted to her, and wanted to give him some action for being decent to her, in the only way she knew how. I thought the crying came from the frustration of the whole day.
StraxStrax
I'm selling these fine leather jackets
100% this
I don't see her crying because she missed out on the bag. She had no real feelings Ivan either. Having to go back to her old life wouldn't have evoked that reaction. I thought that was coming from a much darker place. Even Igor was stunned by how she reacted from him going for a kiss because it came outta nowhere. That wasn't consistent with her character. She was trying to fight him off like she's been in that position before and something bad happened. It looked like a flashback to old trauma.
There were just too many subtle to overt mentions of rape for me to ignore. The close up of her mouth as she was screaming and Toros asking Igor if she was yelling rape stuck with me as something important. Even when she was being tied up and Igor had her bent over the couch it looked rapey. Then he was holding her on top of him. Both times Toros pointed it out because it looked like he was sexually assaulting her.
Like you said sex workers are at high risk for sexual assault so I think it's plausible. The director went out of his way to make to rape mentions so it was intentional.
The real romance is between Ignor and Ani. Lot of people are missing that. It's in all their exchanges. Even the first time they look at each other, the camera holds for a second. Compare it to how her exchanges with the kid went.
I know a few strippers, or former ones now, but up close and personal, not from the club. I knew them before. That shyt warps your sense of the world. They see everything as transactional, and they seal off them selves from real feelings. You lose track of what makes you happy, because you are selling a male fantasy 24/7 at work. Actual sex for money twists you even more.
So, Ani is scraped raw, because she allowed her self to be 'real' with Ivan, even if she didn't really "love" him, she loved the idea of that life, and that someone could treat her like that. So, she puts herself out there, and is totally cut off at the knees. Your feelings aren't real. Your relationship isn't real. You aren't who this person made you feel like you were.
So, there's that. The sexual/romantic tension between her and Igor is more pure. It's physical. It's socioeconomic, they are both doing jobs they would rather not do. The small acts of "masculine kindness" he gives her, that Ivan could not. The scarf. Protecting her in small ways. Standing up for her in the meeting. She has a dominant personality, and he has a traditional masculine one.
I know a few strippers, or former ones now, but up close and personal, not from the club. I knew them before. That shyt warps your sense of the world. They see everything as transactional, and they seal off them selves from real feelings. You lose track of what makes you happy, because you are selling a male fantasy 24/7 at work. Actual sex for money twists you even more.
So, Ani is scraped raw, because she allowed her self to be 'real' with Ivan, even if she didn't really "love" him, she loved the idea of that life, and that someone could treat her like that. So, she puts herself out there, and is totally cut off at the knees. Your feelings aren't real. Your relationship isn't real. You aren't who this person made you feel like you were.
So, there's that. The sexual/romantic tension between her and Igor is more pure. It's physical. It's socioeconomic, they are both doing jobs they would rather not do. The small acts of "masculine kindness" he gives her, that Ivan could not. The scarf. Protecting her in small ways. Standing up for her in the meeting. She has a dominant personality, and he has a traditional masculine one.
steadyrighteous
Veteran
All of this.
But to add to the bold - a dominant personality that she would have had to have crafted in order to protect herself both physically and emotionally, so the second she dropped it, the person underneath that is raw and vulnerable as ever because its been in a coc00n for years.
On top of everything that happened to her over the course of the movie, her attempting to shed her protective shell exposed the version of herself emotionally she probably didn't even remember she had. So the crying was uncontrollable because Ani has been a tough NY stripper for 5 years but Anora (there are probably several reasons she didn't like going by her full name) has been hibernating for all of those 5 years too.
Ani could have fuhcked Igor easy. But Anora broke down trying to do it.
Red Shield
Global Domination
Happy to see it won 
To think I was going to break my neck to see this in theatres after the Oscar’s. On Hulu 2 weeks later 
