I despise Anora and all the porn-brained filmbros who so ardently defend it
I will always maintain that a major reason why Anora was so popular with professional critics and industry players/the Academy (all overwhelmingly male institutions) is because the film serves up extremely gratuitous levels of female nudity wrapped up in a social realist "cinema of the oppressed" packaging, which gave hetero male cinephiles the opportunity to disguise their sexual consumption of the objectified female body as intellectual exercise.
I know some radfems (including some in this sub) are willing to partially redeem the film because the ending portrays prostitution as psychologically devastating but that doesn't change the fact that the first half of the movie completely indulges in not just the hypersexualization of the subjugated female body but also the fantasy of the "sex worker" who's young and fun and sexy and doesn't necessarily like her "job" too much yet is still more than willing to play the part because sexually objectifying herself for the male gaze is her choice yay!!!!!!
No matter how much you try to intellectualize it, the end result always leads to the same thing: a bunch of proto-pornographic images of women that males can jerk themselves off to.
I remember posting a critique of this film in a movie sub and one of my points was that the extended sequences of the protagonist sexualizing herself for the male gaze were boring and cliche so I wrote something like “everyone already knows what happens inside a strip club, how about the director shows us what the main character is like outside of that context” and some fucking moid genuinely responded “Oh you think EVERYONE knows what happens inside a strip club? What about an amish guy who’s on rumspringa and this is the first movie he’s ever watched in his entire life?” like these coomers will come up with the wildest shit to defend their jerk off material lmao