Naked Lunch

Naked Lunch1991

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Exterminate all rational thought.

Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work -- which he doesn't remember writing.

David Cronenberg
Director, Writer

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Jonathan Rosenbaum · Chicago Reader 80.00/100.00

This David Cronenberg masterpiece (1991) breaks every rule in adapting a literary classic - maybe On Naked Lunch would be a more accurate title - but justifies every transgression with its artistry and audacity.

折叠兔 5.00/5.00

和异化之类无关,我觉得这里关注的只有这样一种经验:对恶心的东西,感到它的出现真实“过了头”,以至于不得不把它和某种命令/必然联系起来,在这种情况下,书写必须以排泄的形式出现,因为脑的控制作用已经极端衰弱。也正是在这个意义上,我爱着令我恶心的东西:原来我是昆虫爱好者??!

Marjorie Baumgarten · Austin Chronicle 78.00/100.00

Ultimately, Naked Lunch is more about the act of writing, while the original is concerned with the phenomenon of addiction. Each does what it does well… but differently.

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