darleneva621

The premise of acid-rain and climate collapse was potentially interesting and thus why I watched it in the first place. But the cinematography and effects were confusing, I couldn't tell when or where's it was safe to go. So that ends up being disappointing. But the worst are the characters and their "development". You get a very hazy backstory, a sick girlfriend, and hostile divorced parents with a teenage daughter who lives up to the stereotypical obnoxious teenage girl role. Her father has this nefarious past, one of many storylines that go nowhere. It's hard to say if she even likes her parents. They have no real heart-to-heart talks because they're running for safety. I get that -except - the daughter makes no attempts because ALL SHE DOES is scream non-stop for either mama or papa...mostly because she thinks she knows everything and ignores their attempts to keep her safe.. and then she starts screaming for them again.

This could have been an interesting climate-change horror story, instead it becomes a story of people we don't get to know...except that they are stuck with an unlikeable teenager who, I suspect, none of us end up rooting for.

Is this film intended to educate us at all about sex workers? Because I didn't learn anything, particularly about Anora, other than scenes of her lap dancing. The Russian characters had a few moments that seemed real and the scenes set in the strip clubs seemed real. I guess that's why I gave it to rating of 3. But my biggest problem with this film most of all was the fact that the actress won the top Oscar. 3/4 of her dialogue wasn't even dialogue. It was just shrieking and screaming and screeching every possible permutation of the F word. I am no prude, but this character made Joe Pesci look like a Cardinal. Obviously this was the "dialogue" and this is what the director asked for, but I don't know how this mounts up to the top award at Cannes and now the Oscars. If that's the way, she was told to play it, good on her, but does she get an award for how long she can screech without coming up for air? How is that a top award winner? The plot wasn't anything I haven't seen before. Be prepared for your ears to be assaulted by the sounds of screaming.