Anora

This was a very intense movie. Much more than I had anticipated.  This is also probably the first movie I’ve seen in theaters in a while.  Thoughts: I thought that her having sex in the end of the film made a lot of sense. I was taken aback by it for a second and then thought about the experience. Like, that made a lot of sense. Unsure what to do with the amount of tension that’s been building up, unsure what’s next, that makes so much sense.  The characters in this were really cute. They were all so sweet, and by all I mean ani, Ivan, and Igor. They were also all so distinct. Like they felt so well realized. And that’s so nice, because it’s not always a given. So I really liked that a lot.  I think somewhere in the second half it started to run long for me. Not really the runtime, but the plot point felt very dragged out.  The Diamond plot line really bothered me. I guess it makes sense as a narrative point to prove that Ivan didn’t really care, and maybe because it felt like such a betrayal it bothered me. I think while I watched it, it felt like a betrayal of the character, but after the movie, it also kinda makes sense as the marriage was so “my parents will suck my dick”.  But idk. He really did sell me on the romance of it.  When they walked out of the chase bank near the end of the movie there was a rebbe picture sticker on the crosswalk sign, and that was a jump scare I wasn’t expecting.  This was a really I almost want to say cute movie, but the amount of intensity, made it a bit less cute.  I enjoyed this. But it’s very hard to tell how I feel after a movie like this.  I like coming out of movies confused. I don’t know if I like rating them confused. But I like feeling conflicted at the end of it.