By Mark Ellis –
The two films that received the most awards on Hollywood’s biggest night have been labeled blasphemous and grossly immoral by the Christian review website Movieguide.
Anora, the dark romantic comedy about a stripper named Anora who trades sexual favors in strip clubs for cash until she meets a wealthy Russian named Ivan. Ivan agrees to hire her exclusively for a week, then Ivan and Anora abruptly decide to get married in Las Vegas.
Anora won five of its six nominations, including best picture, best director for Sean Baker and best actress for Mikey Madison.
The first half of Anora is filled with “nearly nonstop sex and nudity,” according to Movieguide. The movie also has “hundreds of obscenities and profanities, extreme sexual content, explicit nudity, and drug abuse.”
The content contains intentional blasphemy, evil, and gross immorality. Anora should be avoided by Christians, according to Movieguide.
The other big winner at the Academy Awards, The Brutalist won three Oscars, including best actor for Adrien Brody as well as Oscars for cinematography and original score.
The Brutalist is a drama that follows a Jewish architect and Hungarian refugee from the Holocaust in America from 1947 to 1960.
Movieguide describes the film as “having slimy socialist, humanist attacks on America, Christianity and the American Dream,” saying it, “descends into Marxist melodrama.”
“The Brutalist also has gratuitous scenes of incredibly explicit and even pornographic sex and nudity, some strong foul language, scenes of heroin use, and drunkenness.”
Like the other big award winner of the evening, Movieguide warns Christians to avoid The Brutalist.
Overlooking the results of the Academy Awards, Ted Baehr, the founder of Movieguide, has reasons to be optimistic about the direction of Hollywood films.
“If you look at the top grossing movies, of the top 25 movies, 69% of them have positive Christian content, and a lot of those also have a positive Christian worldview, because that’s the way they make money,” Baehr told God Reports.
Several films stand out to Baehr. “Inside Out 2 has made $2.1 billion as of now and Mufasa did over a billion dollars. We showed a clip today for Mufasa’s a little monkey that’s leading them along, saying we’re going to heaven, where he calls it forever. That’s where everything is beautiful, there’s a Tree of Life. He says, ‘I’m going to see my brother there who died.’
“All these Christian themes are within the biggest grossing movies. Now, the bad movies usually get BAFTA Awards in England. That’s because they’re pushing the envelope, and they think that’s a good idea.”
The anti-Christian movies have not succeeded at the box office. “Anora made $12 million at the box office. At $10 a ticket, $12 million is 1.2 million people in a country of 370 million people. It’s pathetic.
“So the Oscars and the news media are always trying to push the envelope, and they’re not telling the truth. If you look at the top 25 films worldwide, none of them have anti-Christian content; none of them have anti-American content. None of them have anti-patriotic content. So it’s just not where people are.”
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