2024-11-21
6 分钟The Economist Hi there, it's Jason Palmer here,
co-host of The Intelligence, our daily news and current affairs podcast.
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He hasn't been around for long, either in reality or fiction.
But the Russian oligarch and his entourage are already familiar figures.
They splurge their petrodollars on yachts and crystal champagne,
wowing Westerners with their profligacy.
The oligarch's minder has a thick neck, dead eyes, and a conscience unruffled by violence.
Noirish thrillers like McMafia are their genre.
The Sex Worker is a longer-standing fixture of cinema.
and appears in several guises.
She, and occasionally he, might emerge from poverty and succumb to a grisly fate.
She may be an object of glitzy prurience.
Or she is Cinderella in stilettos, redeemed by a rich man's love.
She flits from romantic comedies to crime yarns and erotica.
An Aura, a film by Sean Baker, an offbeat director,
brings these two character types together, sort of.
Its heroine fits all the sex worker templates, and none.