It's really good to be able to make a biographical film like this.
I think a lot of the monologues about Anise, maybe really from her diary, can't be written by a man or by a woman who doesn't have a decent amount of sexual experience
For Anise, her constant emphasis on sex makes her more "pure" and "innocent"
This reminds me of Sylvia's poem:
"I'm too pure for you or anyone"
The three of them were watching a short film "An Andalusian Dog" by the surrealist painter Buñuel in the cinema.
Of course the amazing thing is that this is a biographical film
The work "Tropic of Cancer" mentioned in the film is Henry Miller's representative work
Wikipedia mentions:
Two Tropic of Cancer had been accused of obscene books after they were published in the United States, and in 1964 the Supreme Court struck down a state court ruling.
Miller returned to the United States in 1940 and lived in Big Sur, California. There he wrote the "Sexy Trilogy" - "Sexual Journey", "The Web of Eroticism" and "The Knot of Spring Dreams", but because he was regarded as a writer of "dirty works", his main works could not be found in Published in the United States. In 1961, when Tropic of Cancer was finally published in the United States after a lawsuit, Miller became a household name, hailed by the '60s counterculture as a prophet of freedom and sexual liberation.
About Anise saying he's a man with a life full of passion, that's of course:
He enrolled at the City College of New York in 1909, dropped it two months later, and went on to pursue a variety of careers: clerk at a cement company, clerk at the War Department and unpaid trainee reporter for the Washington Post, his father The tailor's little boss, the telegraph company's personnel manager, as well as the dishwasher, newsboy, garbage collector, city tram conductor, hotel waiter, typist, bartender, dock worker, sports school teacher, advertising copywriter , editor, librarian, statistician, mechanic, charity worker, insurance bill collector, gas bill collector, text proofreader, psychoanalyst, etc., some of which he did in less than a day.
Regarding his impotence:
His later life still maintained his "merry" features, having maintained a "romance" with a young and beautiful actress for five years. During this period, he had lost his sexual ability, and used "obscenity" (more than a thousand bold and dripping love letters between them) to obtain "satisfaction".
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