SPOILER ALERT: I'm going to give away some of the plot of Anora.
Anora won the Best Picture Oscar so I was curious to see it. Having watched it, I'm not sure why it won although there were some fine performances by the actors.
The story is about a Russian oligarch's son marrying a stripper/prostitute (Anora) and his parents' reaction to that.
There is a lot of yelling and screaming and F-bombs. According to the Internet Movie Database, there are 479 F-words. In a 139 minutes movie, that's 3.44 F-words per minute. There is also a lot of graphic nudity and a little violence but nothing gory.
I didn't get it. Why did this movie win Best Picture? The acting was good but the story was just shallow: boy meets stripper, boy marries stripper, parents freak out. The one interesting thing was the cocky way the son acted before his parents arrived from Russia and then how he became timid and meek with his mother (who was obviously in charge of the marriage).
Have you seen Anora? What did you think? Did you enjoy it? Let me know in the comments below.
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