Sean Baker, winner of awards for the best original screenplay, best film editing, best director, and best pictures for ‘Anora’, Governors participate in the ball after Oscar

Scene Baker until the last Oscar statue was handed over yesterday Anora Some extraordinary achieved: An Indi Darling stood on Hollywood’s biggest stage, winning five awards including the best portrait. It was a moment of victory for independent cinema and the recent academy’s recent push for rewarding unconventional, off-wall films of the academy. But Sean became unheard of Baker’s record-hang sweep, and refused to sit well.

Surrounding discourse AnoraThis controversial prize has been polarized as a win as a win. While some placed it as a win to tell it a road-level story, others wondered how a film flows into the biggest categories of this minor. To keep it clearly: Anora There is a good film, but it is neither an innovative work nor one. Heries around the marginalized life in their earlier work for a long time praised their ability to weave character-driven stories, Baker has essentially re-designed her well-worn aesthetics for a mainstream, Oscar-booked audience. And yet, this “Indie Darling” managed to bulldes the past Cruelist, Nickel Boys, Substance And it only seems to be a contestant, conclave – Fantastic ambition with all films, deep thematic weight, and, clearly, more cinematic heft.

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There is something irony about Anora Winning the best pictures at a time when viewers and critics are equally craving for films that actually push the boundaries. Surely, its Indie roots and outspoken sensations play well in an era where the academy is eager to indicate its developed tastes. But this development should be about matter, not only about optics. instead, Anora A peculiar new Oscar is a symbol of the trend: Screwfi Undudog film that has been carefully engineered by an aggressive campaign to win Big win.

Baker’s soulful speeches at the Oscars were crying for Bayana gratitude and independent cinemal and communal dramatic experience. Nevertheless, when Baker invited the sex-working community as a reason, it was difficult to feel the gap between rhetoric and reality. It was the brand of Hollywood Elleship that speaks But Group of margins instead with Them.

Dedicated Anora “All sex workers past, current and future” was a grand gesture, but a one who was false when it was held against the film. Mickey Madison is present as a character in an organ between the authenticity and stereotype. He is presented as the force of nature, but what is he really About thisUnlike the richly prepared data in the baker Florida Project Or Red rocketAnnie remains disappointingly opaque, and her inspirations are unclear beyond safety and vague discovery of the square origin. If Baker really wanted to pay tribute to sex workers, perhaps he could start making a film that was earlier with his humanity.

This is not to suggest Anora It is without its attraction. Sean Baker Live-in remains a skilled convenor in the world, and the initial speed of the film is cracks with a improvised action. There are moments of sharp humor, an electrical for its initial act, and some deeply felt performances, especially as Igor ineligible from Madison and Yura Borisov. But the initial bridge of the film soon gives a way to a more targetless inertia, such as before getting out of the road, it is known where to turn. Finally, until the time of its speed drains, it is not difficult to question whether it was actually all.

Mikey Madison is still from ‘Anora’. Photo Credit: Neon

Half of hollow Anora Especially shining than its rivals. Anora Was there a Sacrin cocktail of American extra, some of its companions were the best pictures nominees presented something strong, something that was going down.

Brady Corbett has done Cruelist What Baker has consistently indicated as one during his award campaign – the cost of art, independent art, where creativity is shaken to capital, and autonomy comes at the cost of one’s own legacy. Corbett’s film sinks herself in a knee agreement, which makes artists to survive, where a grand vision can be reduced in a commodity, demanding a lot of forces to protest.

SubstanceMeanwhile, is Anora Criticism of western lenses fetful on steroids reduces industry’s unquenchable appetite for youth. And then the cinematic language boundary was rem Nickel Boys. If Baker served a referring on the American Dream, Ross inquired whose dreams are also allowed to be in existence.

What AnoraIn fact, victory indicates that the increasing desire of the academy is the growing desire to appear progressive in its selection, while still rewarding the safest version of taking risk. In recent years, Oscar has bowed to films Feel like Unconventional while still deeply accessible – Koda, Nomadic, Everything everywhere at onceEach of these films had real artistic qualifications, but he was probably chosen as they felt the most tasty for voters hunger.

Director Sean Baker and producer Alex Coco and Samantha Quan posted with the Oscar for “Anora” during the Governors Ball after the Oscar show at the 97th Academy Awards in Hollywood.

Baker’s film fully fit this mold. This is enough to appear bold, sketch enough to appear indie, but eventually very light to leave a permanent impression. It especially presents itself as a radical choice, following the newly new to the social comment without saying anything new.

And perhaps this is the real issue: Anora There is a film that is really liked instead of staying. The irony of Baker’s Oscar dominance is that his previous films have often felt more important and more authentic. Red rocket Was sharp. Florida Project Was more heartfelt. Orange Was risky. Anora A “important” seems to be a tempting artist to fit his own tendency to fit the mold of the film.

The academy of Indie cinema is commendable. But Anora What is not Moonlight Provoke La la LandIt’s not Parasite Refuying the rules of what the Oscar winner can be. In the best form, it is a film that joined history.