Naked Lunch

Naked Lunch

  • Director: David Cronenberg
  • Writer: William S. Burroughs,David Cronenberg
  • Countries of origin: Canada, United Kingdom, Japan
  • Language: English, Arabic
  • Release date: April 24, 1992
  • Sound mix: Dolby Stereo
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch
  • "David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch" is a feature film produced by 20th Century Fox , directed by David Cronenberg , starring Peter Weller and Judy Davis . 
    The film is adapted from the novel of the same name by William Seward Burroughs . It mainly tells the story that a writer with a drug addiction can no longer distinguish the real world from the psychedelic world in the illusion experience of writing and drug use. The film was released on December 27, 1991. Released in the United States.

    Details

    • Release date April 24, 1992
    • Filming locations Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Production companies Recorded Picture Company (RPC), Téléfilm Canada, Ontario Film Development Corporation

    Box office

    Budget

    $16,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $2,641,357

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $64,491

    Gross worldwide

    $2,641,357

    Movie reviews

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    • By Korey 2022-03-25 09:01:10

      "Naked Lunch" - Sensual orgasm is infinitely good

      IQ is a good thing. After watching this film, I feel that it is enough to go shopping at a cat shopping festival.

      Different from the soul touch brought by the drug addiction hallucination in "Requiem for a Dream", "Nude Lunch" simply allows you to participate in the hallucination from beginning to end. The...

    • By Bernard 2022-03-25 09:01:10

      Killing insects

      Naked Lunch begins with the novelist's creative desires, their dark desires and their abyss. They thought it was the tool of their minds - the typewriter: it was actually their controller, and not even the language, the language - was just talking.

              The film expresses an idea that regardless of the human mind, eyes, and all tools created outside of human beings, especially the tools that are considered to assist human intelligence, spread and even promote civilization, they are...

    • By Armando 2022-03-24 09:02:14

      Reality is more blurry than fantasy

      Rather than saying that "Naked Lunch" is based on the novel of the same name by American writer William Burroughs, it is better to say that this is William's autobiographical film. If you don't know William, then you'll just get lost in the monstrous and irrational maze created by David Cronenberg.
             Cronenberg's adaptation of "The Naked Lunch" did not limit his attention to the novel "Naked Lunch", but also mixed William's autobiographical novel "Insect Killer" and other works....

    • By Rebeca 2022-03-24 09:02:14

      insect

      One: The biggest wish of ordinary middle-aged uncles is: promotion, fortune, and dead wife.
             The biggest wish of literary middle-aged uncles is: drugs, publishing books, and dead wife.

      Two: Except for butterflies, I can't think of insects as cute, and I can't practice in a different dimension, and I can't appreciate the cuteness of these multi-legged creatures. Therefore, I can't accept words like Kafka's Metamorphoses physiologically. It doesn't matter if you are different...

    • By Napoleon 2022-03-24 09:02:14

      Fragment of the Naked Lunch

      Yesterday was almost spent doing nothing, but I was almost undecided sad, strange.
      I know this is suitable for the beginning of a psychedelic novel, or a monologue narration before the official start of a movie. Like a naked lunch.
      In the end, I still think of it, three years after watching it, some day or night before graduation. After watching it, I will dream again. Naked Lunch is such a movie. I've never taken drugs, but I suspect that under the psychedelic smoke, that's all I...

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    • By Watson 2022-04-24 07:01:14

      Think of it this way as a travelogue about depravity, violence, cruelty, and...

    • By Zachariah 2022-04-24 07:01:14

      It's still such an empty and poor dialogue, and the tone of each character is still so eloquent, but the level of cult has grown exponentially countless times. The first time I saw the original Cronenberg, I was still shocked. The film is more likely to express a state of obsession than surrealism. The typewriter bug looked disgusting at first, but turned out to be more and more cute. . . It turns out that I have gone further and further on the road of no return to cult. . ....

    • By Malvina 2022-04-24 07:01:14

      This is the most bizarre part of the cult I've seen, combining art, humor, crime, fantasy,...

    • By Martina 2022-04-24 07:01:14

      Skull's eyeball prescribes drugs and lanky...

    • By Kimberly 2022-04-24 07:01:14

      It's very reminiscent of Kafka when watching this movie, and both the movie and the Metamorphosis Castle Sentence are...

    Movie plot

    In New York in 1953, the insect killer Bill Lee ( played by Peter Weller) was doing a lonely personal writing. Only two friends knew of his literary endeavors. Bill's wife Joan Lee (Judy Davis) is addicted to injecting Bill's insecticide powder. In order to help his wife detox, Bill visited Dr. Benway, and Benway gave Bill some black powder made from centipede meat as a strong antidote.
    Soon, because of the insecticide problem, Bill was...
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    Evaluation action

    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. (Comment by "Oriental Morning Post" ) 
    The film is in the same line as the novel in terms...
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    Movie quotes

    • Doctor Benway: You'll see how elegantly this works. The black will disappear completely. There'll be no smell, no discoloration. It's like an agent, an agent who's come to believe his own cover story. But who's in there, hiding, in a larval state. Just waiting for a time to hatch out.

    • Creature Voices: Say, Bill. Would you rub some of this powder on my lips?

    • Creature Voices: Now, repeat after me: "Homosexuality is the best all-round cover an agent ever had."