Critics’ reviews are important. But it’s how Anora makes sex workers feel that really matters.
As I walk into the sterile Beverly Hills screening room where I’ve come to see Sean Baker’s new film, I’m struck by a sudden realization: Whoever coined the expression “sweating like a whore in church” clearly never watched a sex-worker movie in a room full of civilians.
I, the aforementioned churchgoer, tug at my miniskirt and brace myself. Will the film bros around me really have any idea whether a sex-work movie is any good? Critics have been raving that,” but I’m not so sure. It wouldn’t be the first time someone made a film about sex workers that makes its subjects cringe.Movies about sex workers tend to end in one of two ways: Either the worker gets out of the industry or she’s punished for staying in it .
,” he said to press at the festival. “In my opinion, it should be decriminalized and not in any way regulated because it is a sex worker’s body and it is up to them to decide how they will use it in their livelihood.”’s script. During one scene in the club, Ani brushes off her manager’s request for her to get back on the floor by telling him that until he gives her health insurance and a 401, he doesn’t get to tell her what to do because she’s an independent contractor, not an employee.
Movies will continue to be made about us, just as people will continue to be fascinated by us, because what we do to pay our bills spits in the face of dominant cultural ideas about gender roles, work, sex, and love. In a world where theis that Ani is an authentic hustler, with all the moral gray area that comes with the job, and she still remains someone we root
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