Sean Baker’s “Anora,” which recently won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and is a strong Oscar contender, is not an easy film but rather a complicated jumble of conflicting themes, ideas, and tones. It’s also the sort of movie your mom told you to avoid; it’s not so much that sex, drugs and violence appear in the film as much as they are the film. Yet, I cannot help but think that “Anora,” because of rather than in spite of its lurid content, is deeply reflective of concepts Christians hear preached every Sunday.
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