This is a well-made movie, well-shot, but the characters aren’t well-developed in terms of interiority. Baker gives us glimpses of the characters’ backgrounds and closes the curtains right as we believe we finally have them figured out. This allows everyone in the story to be ripe for interpretation. It could be a traditional character arc wasn’t in Baker’s intention when he wrote Anora’s characters. In real life, people don’t really operate like storytelling arcs; we don’t have an “act 1”,…
