The Naked Lunch
| Year: | 1990 |
| Production Co: | Film Trustees Ltd |
| Studio: | 20th Century Fox |
| Director: | David Cronenberg |
| Writer: | William S Burroughs |
| Cast: | Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Julian Sands, Ian Holm |
Another head-shrinking movie I wanted to love but couldn't even watch in one sitting it meant so little. All allegory, symbolism, comment and subtext (apparently), it's the story of a former writer who's now an exterminator (Weller) who's so hopelessly addicted to his bug spray - a potent drug - that he hallucinates hi typewriter coming to life, informing him he's an agent of a top secret organization and must murder his wife (Davis) and travel to a Middle Eastern enclave to await further instructions.
His contact is a giant squid-like thing, he doesn't really trust the typewriter that turns into a bug, and the wife of a prominent local personality is exactly like his wife.
Being Cronenberg, it's a parable on everything from flesh to the fusion of flesh with machinery, drugs and sex, and everything that's wet and squishy. But, being too much like a David Lynch film, I gave up.
His contact is a giant squid-like thing, he doesn't really trust the typewriter that turns into a bug, and the wife of a prominent local personality is exactly like his wife.
Being Cronenberg, it's a parable on everything from flesh to the fusion of flesh with machinery, drugs and sex, and everything that's wet and squishy. But, being too much like a David Lynch film, I gave up.