I must confess I wasn’t totally enthusiastic about Anora. The trailers made it seem like it was a love story where the hero or heroine died of a disease in the end. Anora is not not that kind of love story though. In fact from the beginning of the movie, you are violently thrown into a world bereft of affection and into the underground shadowy world of strippers, pimps and pole dancers. Mikey Madisons dazzles as Anora, as she effortlessly carried viewers on a whirlwind of emotions, brilliantly executing each scene with professional efficiency.
Mikaela Madison Rosberg also known as Mikey Madison was born March 29th 1999 to Michael and Tracy Madison. Mikey was homeschooled for the early part of her childhood because her parents wanted her to focus on her horse-riding career. Her first acting break came when she starred in Better Things in 2016 and she hasn’t turned back since.
For Neon (Anora’s production outfit), Anora doesn’t come as a surprise hit. The production company is known to deliver only cinematic successes. I believe their success comes from attempting to capture life in it’s truest form with the intention of adding a cinematographic filter/color hue that would make the images stick to your head long after you stopped watching their movies.
Anora’s genius comes from its original storyline and use of less known actors. This added to the believability of it all. The movie also had characters speak Russian, and when these characters tried to speak English, we were tricked into believing it was forced; This effect made watching Anora highly believable. The baby dedication scene where word got to a family member about an event was quite entertaining and it signaled a turn around in the sequence of events. At this point some important characters were introduced, which led to events spiraling out of control.
The movie is a statement of fact that the chick flick genre has been redefined and Mickey Madison is the face of it. Unrealistic plots and dance sequences reminiscent of chick flicks have been replaced with hard-nosed facts about how most young women survive in an unloving environment where they are exploited for everything they have, until they have nothing else to give.
Anora is bold and unapologetically real in delivering the realities that exist on the streets. The realities most women (and men) are confronted with everyday.
Movie Ratings: 9.5/10
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