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Actors: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Naked Lunch |
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Based partially on William Burroughs novel, NAKED LUNCH is a movie written and directed by David Cronenberg in 1991. The picture earned a nomination for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
A few months in the life of Peter Weller, a writer with a strong drug problem. Hallucinations involving all kinds of bugs leads him to Tanger, Algeria where he'll meet a couple of American writers. Weller, despite the facts that his typewriters regularly change themselves into beetles or cochroaches, tries to describe on paper his experiments. He will also have to face, during this trip in the "Interzone", his latent homosexuality.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Naked Lunch |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of sex:
- Two guys MAKING OUT (squish squish!)
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- writer
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- writer
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) very skinny
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- druggie/wino disease
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- red
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn curly
How much in movie?
- 20%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- none
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Africa
Yes
Kind of Africa:
- White Enclave
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Misc setting
- sewers/subways
- bar
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- actual description of sex
- sex under blankets
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Is this movie based on a
- book
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