Posted on 02/24/2025 10:59:14 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets a life-changing opportunity when she is proposed to by the son of a Russian oligarch. However, as soon as the news reaches the family of the groom, the parents will do whatever is necessary to obtain an annulment.
These past years, I have witnessed the industry’s obsession with sex-related content. If your film has very explicit scenes, your chances to have award nominations of all kinds double. That would explain the overwhelming success of Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things in award ceremonies last year.
While Anora is not even half as creepy and perverse, the sexual scenes are everywhere. In fact, one of the first things we see on screen at the beginning of the movie is the protagonist’s naked body, while she tends to one of her clients. The focus is on sexualizing the actress as much as possible, in a very unsubtle and classless way.
Mikey Madison’s performance has earned her the label of “revelation” in the press. For her breakthrough role, she spends several scenes fully or partially naked, performing sexual acts, and swearing repeatedly.
She does not seem to be a bad actress. In the few scenes where she is not having sex or swearing, as brief as they are, I saw more acting range than in many of the trendy young actors of the moment. Maybe with a decent script, she could do great things. But roles such as this don’t allow her to showcase her capacity.
I don’t recommend this film; I suppose you have expected as much. It’s pointless, too long, and unnecessarily explicit. Some might praise the direction or some technical aspects, but personally, I’m sick of giving a pass to films that border on pornography. I’m sick of paying a ticket to get flashed.
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Conservatism is a big tent. I’m a major Elon Musk fan for example, but his love life (or lack thereof) is nothing to write home about. If any of the Breitbart writers wouldn’t mind their partners or daughters participating in a similar project should they be in that field … Then fair, no hypocrisy there.
Are you opposed to posing for paintings in the nude as well?
Still-art (sculpting, painting, sketching) is DIFFERENT. I knew someone who regularly acted as such a model for college art classes. And that's with multiple students + professor in the room.
However, photography is a different ballgame. Depending on the nature of the pose, the other people in the photo, how the material is marketed, etc.... But even here, as I said prior -- I'm not against all nudity always even in film...Some of my favorite movies include it -- but the Anora kind...it's in the realm of the pornographic and people deep down know that. It has something to do with the interplay of lust and objectification...
Nudity is not like murder and violence on the screen. That is make-believe. Nobody really gets killed. But nudity is not make believe. These actresses are really naked in front of the camera, doing exactly what the director says to do with their legs and their hands and their breasts, and they are standing there and they are naked there in front of millions of people for the world to see. - J. Piper
If you’re opposed to the very notion of nudity on screen then nothing about a given film will convince you anyway. It’s a perfectly legitimate position to hold.
Can you quote where I said that I’m against nudity in film?
I was just going by your comments about nudity in general.
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