India, March 7 -- Anora received the Oscar for Best Picture at a time when the Donald Trump administration in the US unofficially declared the American dream dead, imposing instead the idea of Make America Great Again (MAGA). To rise above the excruciating circumstances on which we don't have any control and overcome them through sheer determination is what the American dream is, and it is in this way that it connects it to the Cinderella trope.

But, the Trump-and-Musk show has shattered that dream. Anora is an independent movie that depicts the deeper class tensions of American society, wherein Prince Charming arrives from elsewhere and his eventual escape represents the flight of capital in a caricatural way. Mikey Madison's is a compe...