Just a few minutes into Anora, there's a small but telling detail in a small but important moment: The movie starts in a strip club, with a montage of incidents in which Anora, one of the club's dancers, picks up clients for private sessions.
You can see she's good at it—at handling them, at dealing with their different ages and circumstances, and at getting them to fork over money, to buy what she's selling. It's just a sales job, really, and she's good at the work. And in this movie's worldview, it really is just work.
