Explain to me how that last moment in Anora is a "moment of growth" for the character. I'm definitely one of the detractors on this one, and I keep wanting to feel that the ending is something more than an epic fail. It isn't.
You've got this two bit whore. In the first section of the film, EVERYTHING for her is about getting PAID. EVERYTHING is a negotiation with this little emotional infant. This is a kid who would rather hold on to his video game controller most of the time, than screw this girl. And she gets paid ridiculously well that whole time.
There is simply no way in this world that THAT girl marries that kid without knowing literally ANYTHING about him. She spends every waking moment of her life trying to get a read on guys; that's who she is and what she does. So; she's going to marry this kid. OK. Never. And even the marriage is a complete arrangement; it's a financial negotiation like everything else for her.
She also will treat Igor like a complete piece of shit through the entire film, including the last 20 minutes, the trip back to the mansion, the final night there, that conversation, him taking her to the bank to get paid yet again. She treats him like something to scrape off her shoe. Accuses him of being a rapist, that's just one thing she does.
THEN he presents the wedding ring to her; another payout. HIS reasons for that are not that complicated; he likes her, he's doing her a solid. He's the most human person we see in the story, and despite her treatment of him, he's STILL infatuated with her; not as a whore per se'.
She goes to screw him as a result, it's what she does for getting paid. And then stops when he tries for something more intimate than what she does for a physical living. She wouldn't even screw a John if they used their hands, or demonstrated anything that would be like sincere affection. And she stops him too.
Great analysis. I’ve still got some catching up to do with some of these films, but had the opportunity to see a 70mm print of “The Brutalist” the other day!
Ok David: I'll bite.
Explain to me how that last moment in Anora is a "moment of growth" for the character. I'm definitely one of the detractors on this one, and I keep wanting to feel that the ending is something more than an epic fail. It isn't.
You've got this two bit whore. In the first section of the film, EVERYTHING for her is about getting PAID. EVERYTHING is a negotiation with this little emotional infant. This is a kid who would rather hold on to his video game controller most of the time, than screw this girl. And she gets paid ridiculously well that whole time.
There is simply no way in this world that THAT girl marries that kid without knowing literally ANYTHING about him. She spends every waking moment of her life trying to get a read on guys; that's who she is and what she does. So; she's going to marry this kid. OK. Never. And even the marriage is a complete arrangement; it's a financial negotiation like everything else for her.
She also will treat Igor like a complete piece of shit through the entire film, including the last 20 minutes, the trip back to the mansion, the final night there, that conversation, him taking her to the bank to get paid yet again. She treats him like something to scrape off her shoe. Accuses him of being a rapist, that's just one thing she does.
THEN he presents the wedding ring to her; another payout. HIS reasons for that are not that complicated; he likes her, he's doing her a solid. He's the most human person we see in the story, and despite her treatment of him, he's STILL infatuated with her; not as a whore per se'.
She goes to screw him as a result, it's what she does for getting paid. And then stops when he tries for something more intimate than what she does for a physical living. She wouldn't even screw a John if they used their hands, or demonstrated anything that would be like sincere affection. And she stops him too.
Emotional growth. WT natural F.
Great analysis. I’ve still got some catching up to do with some of these films, but had the opportunity to see a 70mm print of “The Brutalist” the other day!
I liked it even better in IMAX
Really?? Time for a second screening! 😍