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Vendredi, septembre 10th, 2010
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I’m both a Cronenberg fan and a Burroughs fan, so maybe my review of this film lacks objectivity. That being said, I contemplate Naked Lunch is quite an achievement, not only visually (Chris Walas’ creatures are fabulous, Denise Cronenberg’s costumes are comely and authentic to the film’s period), but in terms of screenwriting and in the realm of ideas. Burroughs’ unique could be said to be about a number of things, but I possess the film is mainly about how our appetites and urges manifest themselves if they are not acknowledged. Bill Lee, the protagonist in the movie, spends noteworthy of the first fragment of the film avoiding his need to write. After he flees to Interzone, he begins to hallucinate that his typewriter is a giant talking bug that orders him to compile “reports” on various and sundry people and subjects, such as his sexual proclivities, his relationships with friends and acquaintances as well as his need to have a reason to fabricate. Powerful is made, subtly about the connection between mental imbalance, orgasms and the creative process.Cronenberg has picked up on a theme that runs through all of Burroughs’ writing, namely the consequences of living in a society that labels despicable all healthy forms of personal release. For Burroughs, and by extension Cronenberg, this includes sex, artistic expression and liberated utilize of language. In the original, being denied these outlets leads people to all kinds of perversions of personal power, drug addiction and insanity. Cronenberg uses different means, but shows his audience the psychic toll of denying one’s deep personal needs.In all, a wonderful hallucinatory scramble, with a broad cast (especially Peter Weller, who has never been better chosen for a role) and a whole feast for discussion by thoughtful filmgoers everywhere.
As a devout Burroughs fan, of course I was a minute hesitant to belief this movie initially. And having read the book “Naked Lunch” prior to watching the film, I was at a loss as to what I expected. Certainly there was no blueprint this book could translate into a movie…even “The Wall” director Alan Parker would have been lost.
In essence, Cronenberg didn’t attempt to recreate the book verbatim. Instead he deftly interwove Burroughs’ life with some of the routines and rants from the book. This movie is not for the fainthearted as it shows man-sized mugwumps and talking typwriter/insects who are really operatives for a covert attempt to penetrate Interzone, using a hapless writer, Bill Lee, as their chief inspect.
Definitive moments in Burroughs’ life, such as his relationship with Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and the death of his wife Joan at his acquire hand are featured in the movie. It also gives a surreal biography to the birth of the writer in Burroughs as he attempts to write his intention out of the guilt of his wife’s death and the drugs that numbed the difficulties of his life.
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Those who judge that this movie had no loyal station or if they did mediate there was a state that the location wasn’t linear, then they can’t be that astronomical a fan of Burroughs. His life was not normal, his fans are not normal, and his mode of thinking was, frankly, insane. Cronenberg does a bright job getting inside the mind of the writer, the genius, the man, William S. Burroughs. Bewitch a paddle into his mind, ladies and gentlemen, and be changed forever.
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