At its core is brutal class commentary, painting a very well presented contrast between two very different lifestyles.
If you enjoy the first act and hate the drag of the second and third you missed the point. It's fun and easy to watch in the beginning, it's probably as easy to watch as it was for Ivan to throw down his dad's credit card and pay for all the excessive partying, right? The other acts are long, slow and painful, just like it is for everyone else to clean up the mess after. Its not meant to be fun, it's making a point. Even still while it's making that point it manages to be funny and shows a lot of humanity in the form of Igor.
It's a story although masterfully guided by Anora isn't just about her, but about the relationship between normal people and the rich in general. Its what the rich don't think about, and everything it costs your average person to allow them that blissful ignorance. 4 people just living who have more common ground than they know trudging about the city at the whim of a boy who is just living another normal day. He and his family looking down at people with the mind you'd pay an ant on your windowsill. The ant isn't worth uttering a word to, nor gracing with your eye contact.
After the fairytale is over and the dolls have been played with and tossed aside the movie offers a sweet glimmer of humanity in the end that I didn't find too sad. It's a beautiful gesture to be given a diamond ring by a man who lives in his grandmas apartment and borrows her car. Igor's gesture is the message that it's not all about the money and that there's still reasons for us normal folk to live, that there's a happiness that isn't just the tiresome facade of a spoilt rich kid.
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