The moral fabric of American society is unweaving and nobody seems to care.
The depravity of Sodom and Gomorrah has long permeated American society. The thing that terrifies me is that we are not even trying to hide it. Sin used to be hidden in dark places. It was something done when nobody was looking. People were ashamed. Now it seems as though sinful behavior is promoted and cheered along. We even have an awards system to reward the depraved.
A good example is this year’s Oscar for best picture went to a movie many would consider pornographic. The film, “Anora,” tells the fictional story of a young prostitute from New York who meets a Russian oligarch’s son and marries him. The heavy sexual content of the film, the reason for the R-rating, largely went unreported in national media.
Having not seen the movie, I had to go to the internet to see what the content entailed. The Internet Movie Database or IMDb gives the movie the rating of “severe” for sexual content. It states the following under the parental guide.
“A prolonged & explicit opening Strip Club sequence extensively depicts monetized hyper sexual female nudity & pole/lap erotica with many zoomed nude female body shots. Several Female Sex Work scenes explicitly depict graphic sexualized female imagery, sex acts & nudity with the intense use of severe sexual discourse, drugs & alcohol.”
A typical movie that makes it to theatres costs roughly $100 million. This movie only cost $6 million. This is likely because much of the movie was apparently in a strip club or bedroom.
The movie grossed over $51 million. Anyone who thinks sex doesn’t sell is dead wrong.
In addition to the sexual content,there are 686 swear words of which 544 are the f-word.
I don’t remember hearing that many f-words at Marine Corps bootcamp. Maybe I did and just blocked it out. Marines are not well known for their intellectual acumen and most can’t tell you what acumen means. Or spell it. But still, I was always taught that people curse because they are not intelligent to insult you with normal words.
Why would any movie need to have 686 swear words?
Sadly, the motion picture association didn’t even give this movie an “NC-17” rating. It received the standard “R” rating which requires an adult guardian. What adult in their right mind takes a child to see this type of film?
NC-17 only admits adults. No children under any circumstances. I don’t understand how this movie doesn’t qualify.
This film was nominated for more awards than I can list here. Sadly, it won a bunch as well. As long as people keep watching films like this, Hollywood is going to keep making them, especially if they can turn a $45 million profit on each film.
It is past time that we as a society boycott these types of films. The only way Hollywood will change course is if our society hurts them in their pocketbook.
