Anora

I wanted to see this film for a long time due to high rating on Metacritic, also won Palm D'or, so was very excited to watch it and finally when it won the Oscar, I bought the film on Amazon prime and watched it To say the least, I was a utterly disappointed. Yes movie had some sequences which were good, but nowhere is the movie Oscar worthy. It should not even be nominated in the best films category. I don't know what has happened to Hollywood that the level of movies that win Oscars has degraded so much over the years. Winning the Oscar for best film was a life goal and this movie winning it really undermines the value of an Oscar.

The script, the narrative is okay, nothing new, some surprises here and there, and that's about it.

The performances I would say are good. The lead actress has done a great job. Maybe she deserved an Oscar nomination, but not win the other side characters, except for one or two are interesting. Rest are not making any sense or any depth of your thinking about them a lot.

Cinematography is good. There is a lot of frames are well placed and lot of imagery. I would say photography is good, but again when the narrative is not strong enough to hold everything falls apart.

I've not seen the other movies which have been nominated. Maybe they are even worse than this, but of course, this does not live up to expectations and Hollywood needs to up their game. Otherwise, I need to stop watching any new movies.

I watched this yesterday, just before the Oscar awards were announced.

70% is sexual activity/nudity/porn like behavior 20% is fights/throwing and breaking things/yelling 10% is soap/crying

Not sure at all why this movie was granted so many awards. In so many categories. Especially for the best movie and the best actress. To me it was trashy, uninteresting and even boring at times. The only interesting part was when the parents came to US and took care of the business. The woman in the leading role is average looking at best with no acting skills, no aura, no charisma.

If you like trashy movies then this one will be for you. I would give 4 out of 10 at best.

Here's what I saw in the first half of the movie: two very young adults have sex, smoke, get drunk, have sex, smoke, get drunk, sit on the couch, have sex, smoke, sit on the couch, and engage in an occasional uninteresting conversation, have sex, get drunk, smoke, sit on the couch. Then go to Vegas and get married and have sex, smoke, get drunk, have sex, smoke, get drunk.

The 2nd half of the movie, introduces other characters. From this moment on the movie becomes this long and arduous path for this new caste of characters to get the couple's marriage annulled.

At the very, very end I finally saw a drop of emotion. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough for me to like this movie.

I had no idea who Anora was as a whole person, only where she worked, and that's the reason it lacked substance.

The other issue is that the movie was sort of a drama and sort of a comedy but didn't fulfill either. It would have been far better to have gone deeper into her character, so that we could care about her and her heartbreak.

The first 40 minutes can be quite misleading, likely catching viewers off guard if they enter with the expectation of a romantic narrative.

Once the first act concludes and the second act kicks in, there's a striking shift in both tone and style that I honestly did not see coming.

The comedy is genuinely entertaining, with moments that will have you laughing out loud. Despite serious circumstances, the absurdity of the situations elicits laughter and chuckles.

They have certainly nailed the dark comedy sides of the story.

However, I found the dramatic elements to be less impactful than I had anticipated, leaving me puzzled by the overwhelmingly positive feedback it has garnered from all around.

While Mikey Madison delivered an impressive performance, and fully deserves every praise coming along her way, her character needed more depth to properly flourish. It feels as if the writing intentionally held back on details, leaving the job of contemplation solely to the audience.

I wish that weren't the case.

Overrated and boring. Gratuitous nudity and sex scenes with a ton of fluff and fill dialogue. I'm not exactly sure what people were seeing when they gave it a great review, but there was only one solid takeaway from this movie, and that is that Mikey Madison can act. Caveat to that opinion is that specifics of her character can become quite annoying. You'll have to see it to understand exactly what I'm saying without giving any spoilers away. The movie starts out strong and sets itself up pretty well, only to come crashing down not even half way through. If you're not that curious of a movie buff, then you definitely won't regret passing on this one.