THE OPINION OF THE “WORLD” – SHOULD NOT BE LOST
Everything that Hollywood no longer wants to see can be seen in Sean Baker’s films. His work, already rich in eight feature films, formulates lucid observations that are no longer found anywhere else, as American cinema has grown tired of its format and its political and sexual infantilism. The filmmaker has not stopped stirring the same obsessions: sex as currency and, sometimes, the only means of survival. Social class, understood as a destiny that always reaches you. Finally, money, which structures the world. But if it were just that: the political maturity of his cinema would be nothing without the basis of a look that we guess, in him, is infinitely generous, curious about what his actors (all chosen outside the star system) have to offer.
Longs (Mikey Madison) Baker thus joins the list of galley slave heroes who cross the galaxy: a young prostitute who works in Brooklyn, we discover her in the turn of a splendid tracking shot where, with a smile that she has become accustomed to plastering on her face, she offers a dance lascivious to a man. One night, he entertains Ivan (Mark Eydelshteyn), a young client who turns out to be the son of a Russian oligarch. He soon invites her to his huge villa to pay for her escort services and soon becomes fond of the one who prefers to be called Ani. Without warning, a sincere, certainly paid, relationship forms and intensifies.
This entire first part, a tunnel of euphoria saturated with acid colors, aims to be the portrait of two carefree young lovers, beautiful as gods, who seem to have dissolved reality and its laws in endless enjoyment.
“Pretty Woman” mounted backwards
Still, the viewer cannot help but raise an ambiguity, and one thought does not leave him: it is because Anora works (and earns a lot) that Anora smiles. All this great happiness is both reality and complete simulation, it is the story of two beings who pretend to be from the same world and achieve it. Aided largely by sex, alcohol and drugs, they get high and are careful to never come down. Their union culminates where, in the United States, everything should always culminate: in Las Vegas, where, out of a very serious impulse, Ani and Ivan get married. Cinderella of the 21st centurymy century, Ani returns to her workplace to say goodbye to her colleagues and their problems. The only escape promised to these women – a beautiful marriage – she was the one who achieved it.
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