I didn't understand the hype of this movie. I didn't also understand why I always kept seeing it in featured movies. And I also didn't understand why it was hyped on Instagram because from the beginning, I was like oh, okay maybe that will happen and I'm about fifty minutes into the movie and nothing is making sense yet.
Hi there, it's me again. Bringing another lovely(not) movie to your screens to rant about once more. It's been awhile I've seen this movie, sometime around the end of last month and I will be straight forward when I say I did not like it.
Source
What movie am I talking about? Well, that would be Anora. I was so confused when I found out it won an award and it was part of the top movies of 2024.
Anora is a film about a woman trying to hold on to something that feels like love in a world that keeps pushing her to let go. She's a stripper from Brooklyn, used to hard nights and harder truths. Her name is Anora Mikheeva, but most people call her Ani. She's sharp, fast-talking, and carries herself like someone who knows how quickly good things disappear. And then she meets Vanya.
Vanya Zakharov is young, quiet, almost delicate in his manner. He watches Ani with the kind of attention that feels unfamiliar to her—not like a client, not like a man wanting something, but like someone seeing her. He's the son of a Russian billionaire, but you wouldn’t guess it right away. There’s something soft about him, and when he invites Ani into his world, it doesn’t feel like a transaction. It feels like escape. They spend a few days together,long nights, quiet conversations, the kind of whirlwind that doesn't ask for logic. And before it makes sense, they're married.
That moment; when they say their vows in a hasty Vegas ceremony, is the beginning of a different kind of storm. Because Vanya’s parents find out, and they are not soft. They are cold, calculating, and powerful. And they do not want their only son married to a sex worker from Brooklyn. They arrive in America with their lawyers, their strategies, and their threats. They offer Ani money,first a little, then a lot. All she has to do is walk away. Let the marriage end. Sign the papers. Forget the boy.
Source
But Ani doesn’t walk. Not at first. She says no. Again and again. Maybe because she believes this love is real. Maybe because she wants to be more than a chapter in someone else’s mess. Maybe because, after everything, she wants to win.
As the story unfolds, Ani is pulled in all directions. Vanya starts to falter. He’s not the same boy who smiled at her like she was magic. He hesitates, defers to his parents, grows quiet. The pressure is crushing. The people surrounding them are not interested in what’s fair or what’s true. They want the marriage undone, erased like it never happened.
And Ani? She stands there, caught in a game she didn’t ask to play, but refuses to lose. What she does next isn’t loud. There’s no dramatic explosion. Just a decision.
By the end, we don’t see a wedding or a divorce. We don’t see her rich or ruined. We see Ani standing alone, outside everything,maybe on a street in Brooklyn, maybe somewhere else. Actually,I know exactly what Ani was doing at the end of the movie. I was not pleasing.
Anyways that's all I have to say about it. Definitely was not worth the hype. It really wanted it to be more.
I have tried and failed to understand the plot of this movie. It was a huge pile of erotic scenes, party scenes then all of a sudden we're sliding down some emotional abuse. It made no sense to me. I couldn't fathom what was going on in the movie. Like okay, will they later fall in love? Will Vanya man up and stand up for her eventually? Honestly, it wasn't it. It wasn't it at all. If I was to rate it out of 10, it's not getting up to 6 from me. Might even be less than 5, if I ponder over it sometime whilst evaluating.
Thanks for reading.
Posted using CineTV