I know this is superfluous, but every time Pretty Woman is mentioned, I have to say how much I hate it. But I loved A Gentleman Undone, and I'm super impressed and surprised that you read Cecilia Grant!
Oh yeah; I love that book. I read a fair bit of romance novels? Jude Sierra, Rose Lerner, and Jennifer Crusie, Kathleen Gilles Seidel are other favorites. I wish Cecilia Grant hadn't given up on writing...
I'm ambivalent about Pretty Woman? It's kind of a great performance by Julia Roberts, though I think the script is pernicious...
I enjoyed the second hour much more than you did. It felt like a funnier After Hours. The way there was just always yet more BS to deal with. Exemplified by the NY court scene. And I loved Ivan’s dad.
As for the rom com trope(s) at the end, eh. A lot is intentionally left up to the viewer. I didn’t see it as “look, there are good guys out there!” I saw it as an indictment of the men in Anora’s life. Igor is the first man (possibly ever, definitely in the movie) to be decent to Anora. She’s deeply traumatized and has no idea how to deal with her trauma. There are no safe men in her life and she doesn’t know how to deal with one who might genuinely be a good guy caught in the same muck as her.
He’s not in the same muck as her though? He’s not discriminated against for being a woman or a sex worker; and he’s literally one of the guys that her life who physically abuses her.
This is kind of why I don’t trust his role in the movie.
I know this is superfluous, but every time Pretty Woman is mentioned, I have to say how much I hate it. But I loved A Gentleman Undone, and I'm super impressed and surprised that you read Cecilia Grant!
Oh yeah; I love that book. I read a fair bit of romance novels? Jude Sierra, Rose Lerner, and Jennifer Crusie, Kathleen Gilles Seidel are other favorites. I wish Cecilia Grant hadn't given up on writing...
I'm ambivalent about Pretty Woman? It's kind of a great performance by Julia Roberts, though I think the script is pernicious...
I enjoyed the second hour much more than you did. It felt like a funnier After Hours. The way there was just always yet more BS to deal with. Exemplified by the NY court scene. And I loved Ivan’s dad.
As for the rom com trope(s) at the end, eh. A lot is intentionally left up to the viewer. I didn’t see it as “look, there are good guys out there!” I saw it as an indictment of the men in Anora’s life. Igor is the first man (possibly ever, definitely in the movie) to be decent to Anora. She’s deeply traumatized and has no idea how to deal with her trauma. There are no safe men in her life and she doesn’t know how to deal with one who might genuinely be a good guy caught in the same muck as her.
He’s not in the same muck as her though? He’s not discriminated against for being a woman or a sex worker; and he’s literally one of the guys that her life who physically abuses her.
This is kind of why I don’t trust his role in the movie.