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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I did enjoy "The Last Showgirl" starring Pamela Anderson, it wasn't G-rated but it plays as a sort of reverse objectification of the main character and reclaiming of feminine agency. Which Anderson seems to be doing offscreen as well. :)
Hollyweird
“Sex worker.” Yet another example of how the left has changed language to try to legitimize immoral activity. Not long ago, she would have been called a prostitute or hooker. “Sex worker” makes it seem like it’s just another job - like a construction worker.
Jane Fonda at a SAG awards event: “I love acting.
<><>We open people’s minds to new ideas,
<><>we take them beyond what they understand of the world.”
IOW——she’s a user—— uses acting to proselytize unsuspecting audiences.
She apparently believes people are too dumb to figure it out for themselves.
They need a movie ticket from Hollywood “to understand the world.”
Then I learned it was about a guy who escaped the Holocaust, and it was a definite "no".
I have the greatest empathy for those poor souls who were persecuted by the Germans, but I do not wish to watch depressing movies. No movies about sick or dead/dying children, or divorce, or WWII prisoner movies of any kind, Bridge on the River Kwai excepted.
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Actors by trade make a living portraying someone they are not in a mock world.
“Entertainers” exist for one reason, to give those of us who actually work to provide for our families something to do to get our minds away from life for a little while.
What they do is inconsequential to the world as far as I’m concerned.
They have no idea what it’s like to struggle to make ends meet, raise kids, hold down a job and all the rest of it.
Their ridiculous sense of self importance disgusts me....especially an America hater like this twit.
Do you have a fixation on porn? Why did you even post a review of this “soft porn” movie?
Ironically as long as “Brutalist” was — the editing chops were good and the pacing made it feel quick. There’s also an intermission in between! At least in theaters.
It wasn’t depressing, it was very “nothing” that’s why I didn’t like it. The story gave no reason for emotional investment in anyone or anything — and while I’m not puritanical when it comes to film content, the explicit scenes were unnecessary.
Re: Anora, I haven’t seen it. But I am around a lot of industry folk here in L.A. and it’s kind of disappointing to be this removed from the Oscars this Sunday! I grew up enjoying them. :)
There is a reason actors in ancient Rome were considered on the same social scale as prostitutes.
What was “Pretty Woman”?
“Pretty Woman” an example of how to present a similar story without turning it X rated.
Didn’t she play a whore in “Klute”?
“Entertainers” exist for one reason, to give those of us who actually work to provide for our families something to do to get our minds away from life for a little while.
Dance, Monkey, Dance!
“I object to all this sex on the television.
I mean, I keep falling off!”
especially these days
Not much purchase on a flat-screen. You need one of those old wooden console TVs for that sort of thing.
Anora is really good. It’s porn at all.
You don’t think the Arts are of consequence?
Not to the extent they do.
Also, personally speaking I wouldn’t call most of what comes out of Hollywood “art”.
Of course, somebody bought a banana duct taped to a blank canvas for 6 million dollars so what do I know. 😏
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