Naked Lunch (1991)
Naked Lunch (1991)
A Film by David Cronenberg
720p BluRay Rip | MKV | 1280 x 720 | x264 @ 7513 Kbps | 01:55:06 | 6,76 Gb
Audio: English-Arabic (a few words) AC3 5.1 @ 640 Kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama | 14 wins | Canada, UK, Japan
A Film by David Cronenberg
720p BluRay Rip | MKV | 1280 x 720 | x264 @ 7513 Kbps | 01:55:06 | 6,76 Gb
Audio: English-Arabic (a few words) AC3 5.1 @ 640 Kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama | 14 wins | Canada, UK, Japan
“Exterminate all rational thought.” Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs’ hallucinatory, “unfilmable” novel is finally realized on-screen by director David Cronenberg. Part-time exterminator and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Peter Weller) plunges into the nightmarish netherworld of the Interzone, pursuing a mysterious project that leads him to confront sinister cabals and giant talking bugs. The fruit of an unholy union between two masters of the hilarious and the macabre, Naked Lunch mingles aspects of Burroughs’ novel with incidents from his own life, resulting in a compendium of paranoid fantasies and a searching investigation into the mysteries of the writing process.
IMDB
Naked Lunch (1991)
A grotesquely humorous concoction, cooked up by Canadian director David Cronenberg with a little help from America's favorite underground novelist, William Burroughs. The Burroughs novel from which the movie is adapted is nearly devoid of narrative, but Cronenberg has sidestepped this problem by making a film about the writing of Naked Lunch. The movie combines elements from Burroughs's life–particularly the accidental shooting of his wife during a drunken game of "William Tell"–with scenes from several of his books to tell the story of his transformation into a writer. It opens in New York City in the early 1950s, where Burroughs's alter ego, Bill Lee (Peter Weller), is working as an exterminator. His problems begin when his wife, Joan (Judy Davis), turns him on to the narcotic qualities of the bug powder he uses. Under the influence of the powder, Lee hallucinates his way into an alternative realm where he is a secret agent for a ring of giant, infinitely disgusting beetles. The bugs instruct him to kill his wife and go to Interzone, a fictional city loosely modeled on Tangiers. There, Lee encounters an assortment of literary types and other shady characters, has conversations with typewriters which metamorphose into–you guessed it–giant bugs, and indulges in some exotic, mind-altering substances.
Naked Lunch (1991)
![Naked Lunch (1991)]()
The result is a hallucinatory, often stomach-turning take on the bohemian life that incorporates loosely drawn portraits of Burrough's contemporaries–Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Paul and Jane Bowles–as well as conjuring up the nightmares of drug addiction and the excruciatingly painful process of writing itself. The director has come up with some of his most imaginative–and unpalatable–images to date, ranging from two-foot beetles which speak through sphincter-like openings in their backs, to giant, rubbery creatures which secrete a sticky, narcotic fluid from–ahem–organs that sprout from their heads. A treat for Cronenberg fans, though this could hardly be called a gripping, or emotionally involving, story; you're more likely to need a can of bug spray than a hanky.
Naked Lunch (1991)
Naked Lunch seems to be just totally incomprehensible upon first viewing. However, after watching it again, you start to understand more and more. Upon multiple viewings, you really get a feel for what's transpiring before your eyes. The ultimate message is that it is really just a metaphor for heroin addiction, even though it's so much more deeper than that. It's an intricate study of a man, William S. Burroughs, who was a heroin addict, and among other things one of the most significant Beat authors ever. The film delves deeply into the psyche of Burroughs and takes you on a trip in his mind and your own. There are touches of reality and many flashes of paranoia, and it is all done with style and grace. Seriously one of the best films about an author, Naked Lunch will certainly stand the test of time against other films which may seem at first entertaining, but lose their luster upon multiple viewings. Whereas, Naked Lunch, in my opinion, never will. 10 out of 10.IMDB Reviewer
Naked Lunch (1991)
Naked Lunch (1991)
No More Mirrors.