Overview

• With the film now on digital platforms, online debate has intensified, including posts dismissing it as "broke man propaganda."
• Song calls that label cruel and classist, saying her story critiques capitalism’s hold on intimacy and the allure of wealth.
• Set in New York’s matchmaking world, the movie follows a metrics-driven search for partners and contrasts a rich financier with a cash-strapped ex, led by Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans.
• Reviewers note a confronting sexual-assault subplot that underscores the limits of screening and status signaling in curated dating spaces.
• In new commentary, Song ties the themes to limited class mobility in a broken economy, a perspective critics frame alongside Pride and Prejudice fantasies and parallels to Anora.