I decided to write my final blog on the movie we are currently watching, Henry and June. I find it a very interesting movie. Unlike the critics from the video we saw in class, I think the movie is very sexual. After all, both writers in the movie, Henry and Anais Nin, are both writing about sex and how erotic it is. The movie does well to portray this. They are only human, and therefore have sexual needs as do we all. They, however, choose to satisfy this need with more than one person. Both Henry and Anais are married but are seeking satisfaction outside of their marriages. I don’t like this part of the movie because they are cheating are their spouses. It is interesting though that they feel they must satisfy themselves by being with eachother as well as their spouses. I think Anais is seeking to learn more of the erotic side of sex, and Henry is more than willing to show it to her. Her husband, on the other hand, isn’t as erotic in his sex. I find it very interesting that she seeks to learn about it from someone else. June doesn’t seem to care. She actually asks Anais to take care of Henry while she is gone. June also has an attraction to woman and shows that to Anais. Anais is learning not only erotic sex with a man, but also some pleasures of being with a woman. Anais’s husband, however, would hate if he found out that Anais was seeking to learn more about sex from people other than him. Although we haven’t finished the movie yet, I think it will have an explosive ending with Anais’s husband finding out and things going down hill from there. However, it is an interesting movie, but not something I would have chosen to watch in my own time.
