In classic Oscars style, a movie that no one has ever heard of, only grossing $41M in the box office, took home Best Picture. That movie is Anora, a film about a sex worker who marries a Russian oligarch.
No sir ... no you are not.
To put it bluntly, it's pretty much a porno with a half-baked storyline about a stripper and her whirlwind romance with a rich mobster. Think 50 Shades of Grey, only more violence and DEI.
And yes, as expected the DEI quotas are off the charts, banning movies that don't fit these woke qualifications:
For the parents out there (or anyone who doesn't want to their mind rotted), it's rated R for "strong sexual content throughout, graphic nudity, pervasive language, and drug use" — so it's not exactly a subtle affair.
Here's how the Christian review website Geeks Under Grace put it:
So, what is the goal of Anora? Unfortunately, I can't define the opening scene of the film as anything other than pornographic. I can't with good conscience defend it, and I don't use the term 'pornographic' lightly. For me to define it as such, a number of criteria need to be met: it needs to contain sexually explicit content, its purpose is to arouse the audience, and there is an element of degradation of the person committing the act, as though they are nothing more than a void for the viewer's fantasies.
Geeks Under Grace says it is "a painful exploration of the concept of love being transactional, like the bleak cousin of Pretty Woman"; unfortunately, the spiritual themes of marriage, sexuality, and meaning are lost in scene after scene that are meant to arouse lust in the viewer.
For a movie that wants us to see the humans behind sex work, it sure does work hard to objectify them!
According to IMDb, 656 out of 954 users rated the sex and nudity as "severe," 331 out of 382 found the profanity "severe," and 272 out of 368 marked the alcohol and drug use as "severe."
In short, if any movie this year reflects Hollywood's moral bankruptcy, it's Anora. Which, come to think of it, might just explain why it won the top prize.
Funny how that works out, huh?
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