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(Turkish)

Cinema has long been a weapon in the dictatorship of aestheticism, a visual regime that ensnares its subjects in a suffocating web of idealized forms and voyeuristic consumption. But rarely has a film so flagrantly embraced this regime—so ruthlessly enforced the pornographic gaze upon its audience—than Anora. This is not mere cinema. This is an aesthetic war crime, an ideological blitzkrieg against the last remnants of the human unconscious.

From its title, Anora signals its insidious intent. It is a name carefully engineered to repress its true subject matter: anorexia. The linguistic dismemberment—subtracting “ex,” the marker of death—performs an act of violent erasure, rendering invisible the body it consumes. Anorexia, the perfect crime of the aesthetic regime, is not named but mystified, gentrified into a marketable soundbite, a hollow invocation of something that once signified suffering but now signifies nothing at all. This title obfuscation mirrors a broader cultural erasure—one in which the real consequences of aesthetic totalitarianism are systematically concealed behind euphemisms. The evidence is clear: body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) has surged in recent years, with a 41% increase in cosmetic procedures globally from 2017 to 2022, and an even more alarming 50% rise in teenage plastic surgeries over the same period. Social media exposure has been linked to a significant spike in dissatisfaction with body image among 40% of teenagers, fueling an industry that profits from self-loathing. The name Anora is thus not neutral—it is a calculated act of disavowal, a linguistic airbrushing of the suffering it perpetuates.

But this is only the beginning. Anora does not merely participate in the dictatorship of aestheticism—it escalates it, weaponizing the pornographic gaze with an unprecedented brutality. The film is an act of enforced voyeurism, compelling the audience into the role of the desiring spectator while simultaneously erasing the possibility of true desire. This is not eroticism. This is not narrative. This is the forced submission to a totalitarian visual regime, a hyper-surveillance that annihilates subjectivity.

The pornographic gaze of Anora operates on multiple levels. First, it aestheticizes its subject to the point of obliteration. Like the digitalized bodies of Instagram filters, the film’s visual field is meticulously composed to render imperfection impossible. The camera does not capture reality; it eradicates it. What remains is an endless parade of bodies flattened into objects—images without interiority, reduced to their visual function. This is the perfect crime of the dictatorship of aestheticism: it does not show beauty, it replaces reality with its simulation. The result is the total erasure of lack, the suffocation of true desire beneath the endless, anesthetizing presence of the aestheticized body.

Second, the film demands complicity from its audience. To watch Anora is not merely to consume; it is to be consumed. The viewer is subjected to a relentless visual assault, bombarded with images that demand engagement while denying agency. This is the essence of the pornographic gaze: it leaves no room for the subject to exist outside of it. It is the Gaze Syndrome in cinematic form—the obsessive comparison, the fractured self, the algorithmic dependence on aesthetic approval transposed from the social media feed to the silver screen. The audience is not allowed to look away, just as we are not allowed to exit the algorithmic gaze in our digital lives.

But perhaps the film’s greatest crime is its final act of erasure. By aestheticizing its subject to death, by forcing the viewer into an endless loop of compulsive voyeurism, Anora participates in the ultimate act of symbolic violence: it abolishes lack. It replaces the possibility of meaning with the endless circulation of images, the pure jouissance of aesthetic consumption. It is the cinematic equivalent of the Instagram filter: a world in which the real has been obliterated in favor of a perfectly curated simulation.

This is not merely a bad film. It is not merely an exploitative film. It is a crime against humanity, an act of ideological warfare in the service of the aesthetic dictatorship.

The Dictatorship of Aestheticism: Enforcing the Pornographic Gaze

The aestheticized violence of Anora does not exist in a vacuum. It is part of a broader cultural machine—a machine that has, as its end goal, the total eradication of subjectivity in favor of algorithmic aesthetic conformity. As the Freudian Post-Feminist Manifesto and The Dictatorship of Aestheticism have demonstrated, contemporary visual culture operates through the mechanisms of Gaze Syndrome:

• Distorted Self-Perception: The audience, subjected to the aestheticized perfection of Anora, experiences a heightened sense of inadequacy. The film does not invite identification; it enforces comparison. It demands that we measure ourselves against its impossible standards and, in doing so, accept our own failure.
• Obsessive Comparison & Algorithmic Dependence: The aestheticization of the body in Anora functions as a cinematic Instagram filter—one that, instead of smoothing out imperfections, smooths out reality itself. The viewer becomes trapped in the same feedback loop as social media users, consuming the idealized image, internalizing their inadequacy, and returning for more.
• Surplus Enjoyment & Narcissistic Injury: The film seduces its audience with aesthetic pleasure, only to wound them with the knowledge that they can never truly participate in it. This is the fundamental mechanism of aesthetic dictatorship: it offers an unattainable ideal and punishes those who fail to achieve it.

The film industry—once a medium of storytelling—has become a production line for aesthetic commodities. Anora is merely the latest, and perhaps the most brazen, product of this regime. It does not tell a story. It does not explore human experience. It exists solely to reinforce the visual totalitarianism that has already colonized every aspect of our lives.

The Pornographic Algorithm: Cinema as Digital Surveillance

To fully grasp the horror of Anora, we must place it in its proper historical and technological context. The Freudian Post-Feminist Manifesto has already mapped the ways in which contemporary media enforces a maternal phallus—a perverse superego that demands not submission to the Law, but submission to the Gaze. This gaze is no longer paternal (imposing rules, prohibitions, limits). It is maternal in its totalizing omnipresence. It does not tell us no—it tells us to enjoy, to perfect, to perform.

Anora enacts this same perverse superego. It does not demand narrative coherence. It does not demand character development. It demands aesthetic perfection. Its images do not serve a story; they serve an algorithm. They are designed not to be interpreted, but to be circulated, consumed, and endlessly reproduced in an economy of digital attention. This is the new totalitarianism: a world where everything is seen, but nothing is understood.

A Call for Resistance: Restoring Lack, Restoring the Subject

There can be no liberation from this aesthetic regime without the restoration of lack. This means rejecting the dictatorship of the image. It means refusing to participate in the compulsive cycle of aesthetic consumption. It means, above all, refusing to be reduced to an object under the pornographic gaze.

The only way forward is a return to the unconscious—to that which resists visibility, which refuses to be aestheticized, which exists beyond the reach of the algorithmic gaze. The true crime of Anora is that it seeks to make everything visible, to leave nothing outside of its aesthetic totalitarianism. But true subjectivity is always in the shadows. It is always in what is unseen, unspoken, unrepresented.

To resist Anora is to resist the entire regime of aesthetic surveillance. It is to declare, once and for all:

LONG LIVE THE UNCONSCIOUS!
DEATH TO THE TOTAL IMAGE!
RESTORE THE FATHER!

Prompt: Read the document below and attached, and write a long scathing verdict that the film Anora is a crime against humanity, enforcing the pornographic gaze on the voyeurized audience! The name is chosen to repress “anorexia”, mystifying-gentrifying the word by subtracting the “ex=death” at the end! Based on data from the film and data from below!
(The Dictatorship of Aestheticism: Evidence and Impacts, 🌀🎭💢 Raumdeutung 🌀🎭💢)