Anora: A Cinderella story? - Unnatural To Some

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Nikki hasn't brought up a topic. Oh, yeah, that's

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right. I have to talk about things sometimes.

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Nikki has a topic. Nikki has a topic. Nikki has

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a topic. You're full screen now, babe. Oh, no.

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So much pressure. So as I discussed earlier,

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we were going to talk about the film Anora. I

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don't know if you've seen it yet or not, but

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it's the it's a story about. a stripper sex worker

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who marries a very, very wealthy Russian oligarch

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family, something or another, and their family's

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not very approving of this marriage and all shit

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breaks loose. And I just thought it was a, I

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thought it was a fun film. I enjoyed it. It won

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best picture. Last year. Mm hmm. And yeah. I

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watched it with Jenny and another friend and.

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I wanted to. Go around and I guess talk a little

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bit about that. How did you feel about the film,

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Jenny? Well. So it is a film about sex work,

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and I think it's trying to like depict like an

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accurate or sorry, let me rephrase that. I think

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it's trying to accurately depict like what it's

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like to be a stripper slash escort in today's

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day and age. I think it's I think it's actually

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pretty good. It does. I've never been a stripper

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myself, so I can't talk on that hand, but I have

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done the other thing a little bit. And I'll say

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like, it does feel pretty accurate as far as

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like, client relationship with, you know, myself

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or in this case, Nora, and just like that overall

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relationship and how that works and the dynamics

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between it, and just like how it's more business.

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And in this movie, it does like change from like

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kind of like a business transaction relationship

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to like, Like oh, I like you. I love you. I want

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to keep you around like the guy like kind of

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falls in love with her and and if you have explored

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sex work, especially escorting you will come

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in contact with clients who will Admit to falling

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in love being in love with you and stuff and

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it's kind of like a hard thing to deal with and

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the way she portrayed that was really good. Like

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the actress, the way she portrayed it was really

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good. And I think it was I think it was done

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pretty well. The only problem I had with it is

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just like the things the family was saying were

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saying about her was just so. It felt cringy.

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It felt too real for me, like and yeah, like

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it was just like I felt like that could have

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been done a little bit better. I just I don't

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know. I feel like. Hmm. I feel like people are

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more accepting of sex work nowadays. Maybe not

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a Russian oligarch family. That's like super

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religious. But like, I don't know. It kind of

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made me feel a certain way, if I were to be honest,

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like hearing what they were calling her. I like

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how it focused, you know, on her perspective,

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going through everything, you know, falling in

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love with this client and, you know, she gets

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this sense of stability and it's just fucking

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ripped out from underneath there and I just feel

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like you know that's probably you know what a

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lot of girls experience not maybe not maybe at

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the level of marrying some rich wealthy guy I'm

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I'm sure there's a lot of them that do that but

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oligarch level And everybody's talking about

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oligarchs lately. Yeah, it's just... It's a crazy

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idea, but it's not unrealistic. It's not unheard

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of. Where a girl is doing that type of work,

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a very wealthy person comes into their life,

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supposedly sweeps them off their feet and then

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leaves them with nothing. And then just... with

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nothing and maybe even a baby. Like, yeah, it

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kind of felt like it's the beginning of Pretty

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Woman. But instead of happily ever after, it's

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more realistic. It's a good watch. I see why

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it won an award. It's actually a really good

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watch. I think it's like I said, I think it's

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done well. It's just for me. Certain scenes are

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hard to to hear just because. I didn't. I just

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I just don't like, you know, like they're calling

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her a whore and all that stuff. So it was like,

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it's kind of hard to hear. But yeah, great film.

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I highly recommend you watch it if you haven't

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already. Yeah. I enjoyed it. Why do you keep

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cutting to me and I don't have anything else?

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I'm sorry Jenny I keep I feel like you're about

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to go on a little talking tangent and then you

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don't you won't say anything Yeah, so I keep

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cutting you and you're like, um, hi What was

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your favorite part? Me? Yeah, what was your favorite

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part of the movie? I personally like the the

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conflict with the bodyguards and The the guy

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character who's like actually friendly to her.

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Oh, yeah Yeah, that was they so what's interesting

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about the movie is it does have like comedy really

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comic relief in there Yeah, and yeah, and there

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is a one male character in there. That's like

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it feels like his character is playing like a

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position of like he's a guy who like everyone

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uses him for just beating up people killing people

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as a bodyguard and like he knows that and he

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just feels like a tool and like a tool to be

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used for something and like when he meets the

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character anora he kind of like it you can see

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this like they have this like connection and

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that that is like a really good like i love all

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their scenes together because he it feels like

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he's trying to connect with her because he feels

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like like they're kind of similar in a way, you

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know, like he's just there because they're they're

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paying for his service. Right. And not paying

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him well. And then she's just there because someone

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was trying to pay for her service and and not

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treating her well as well. So it's like. I and

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then the the two brothers. Yeah, that was kind

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of funny. Two brothers, two brothers. You got

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to watch the movie, Jay. It's pretty good. Yeah,

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Jay. Yeah. I know what you're doing. Cancel.

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Cancel your plans. Watch it right now. Watch

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it. Yeah, I. I. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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So I did watch like a summary of the movie. I

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don't know. So I don't know these types of movies.

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I'm always kind of like a little hesitant to

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watch them. I'm not going to lie because my mother

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was a sex worker. She was a stripper. I am that's

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how her my dad met at a strip club. So it's kind

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of like when I when I see movies pop up about

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this. I'm just kind of like Like I don't really

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know if I'm going to watch out to be honest.

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It's it is I will say like the premise of this

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baby is completely different from the premise

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of like my my mother. It sounds like my mother

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and Nora were kind of opposite kind of in a weird

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really weird way because my my mother actually

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was the one that came from a very wealthy family.

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She like she grew up with like a nanny and a

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driver and everything like that. But she was

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very much into like the party lifestyle like

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she was like a cheerleader when she was in high

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school. So she from from what I understand is

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that she wanted to one rebel from like the control

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of her very controlling father. but then also

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just wanted to party. And she was like self -medicating

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with like drugs and stuff because she had her

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own own personal struggles that she was dealing

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with. So, you know, being as being a stripper

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is like a great party atmosphere, blah, blah,

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blah. But yeah, there's oversharing. There's

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that. Well, but I don't know. I always like see

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like movies like this pop up. And I'm just like,

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do I really want to like dive into like, why

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did my I don't know, like, like, like, so for

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instance, like, sorry, but like, oh, no, no,

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go. You were talking about like, oh, like, it's

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hard, like, hearing people like call her like

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a whore and everything like that. It's like,

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yeah, like I don't. You know, like trying to

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like imagine like my mom like going through that.

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It's kind of like ah, like I don't know. Yeah.

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Yeah, that makes sense like um, but it's crazy

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to I mean the you bringing up your mom is just

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like the your mom had a whole different like

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completely like you said opposite experience

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of Nora and it seems like your mom was in a place

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where she was doing her work more out of like

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Spite for her parents or just you know wanting

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to rebel against Her probably really strict parents

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at the time and then like how on like unaccepting

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people were of of strippers back then and like

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how You compare that to Nora's character where

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she's doing it just because she loves doing it

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She's doing it because she she likes the money.

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She likes it doesn't her character never really

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shows that she's doing it because she's like,

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in a bad place. Like, she's not owned by anyone.

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She makes her own schedule. Like, you see her

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demanding that she gets off, and she walks out

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of her club and comes back right back. And they're

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like, yeah, you can work. And it's just like...

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She was very much girl boss mode in the movie.

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And I feel like that's a big difference back

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from, like, you know, when your mom was doing

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it. It's like... Women were weren't in control

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of their careers as much they felt less in control

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I feel like and now women have we have way more

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control over careers and Yeah, I think that was

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I think that was actually showed very well in

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an Oreo and I'm really glad you brought up You

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know your mom I should have put it on solo cam

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for me to talk Wow, sorry But I'm glad you brought

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up your mom because like it just it's it is a

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stark it is a way to you know, it's night and

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day difference, you know, from the movie. But

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yeah, if you're doing the work and you watch

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the movie, just know there are some scenes are

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going to be rough for you to watch if you're

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sensitive to like certain words. That's all.