The film depicts the United States in the 1950s. At that time, the fear of World War II had gone away, and the economy of society had begun to recover. However, after the victory of the war, the huge gap in the mind was not filled with new ideals. People can only rely on drugs and medicines. Absurd behavior to counter the absurdity of the times.
The film is in the same line as the novel in terms of psychedelic colors, but has a completely different storyline.
When David Cronenberg was filming "David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch", he fell into an anti-logical dizzy style, which made the audience confused whether it was a Burroughs biography or a Burroughs novel, whether it was a drug reaction or a science fiction. There was only one The big beetle that the typewriter turned into was chattering immortally and spreading conspiracy theories. Perhaps the more confused it is, the easier it is to get to the bottom. The ecstatic generation seems to have completely lost the sense of accomplishment of the Beat generation and the hippies.
