B ZAAAAR.

I'm not very familiar with Burroughs' life and work, so this movie was a bit impenetrable (pun intended) for me. On a purely visceral level it's pretty effective, and I suppose that the novel works similarly, but it makes for a vague narrative and unsympathetic characters. As strange as everything is in this film, I think it would've been stranger if more of the real world had been clashed with Interzone. Good metaphors about addiction, identity, and writing difficulties, I guess.

I dunno, might be better but I found myself wondering off & grabbing the laptop about 30 mins in to keep me entertained while it played

After watching this again, I liked it much more on my second go through. It's not a filming of Naked Lunch, so much as using the feel of that and Burroughs' other novels as a jumping off point. We get scenes from Naked Lunch and tributes to it and other novels, but it is very much a Cronenberg creation that owes itself to Burroughs. My favourite scene has got to be where Lee's friends visit him in the Zone and find out just what he's going through to write his novel.

It has its rough edges, but Naked Lunch has a ridiculous amount of charm. It's difficult not to love Lee's monotone voice and robotic ambulation throughout Lunch's bright and interesting environments. The surreal characters and events strewn throughout the film all imbue the piece with a very magical wonder, it's easy to get caught up in the strangeness of the whole affair. Some effects are poor, and the script can limp along at times, but it's just too damn charming to miss.

Completely and utterly bizarre. It's an interesting experience though ultimately I felt a little unsatisfied.

weird, and not always in a good way, this film is one of Cronenberg's...well, weirdest. Makes sense if you know the source material.

it's certainly weird and unstructured as shit, which makes it a pretty good tribute to burroughs' novel

When this movie finish, you wake up in a dream .. !

Bugs everywhere also some wild crazy stuff. I enjoyed it

Really hard to make something of this film, but visually, it's brilliant. Furthermore, Cronenberg's ability to produce a (somewhat) coherent film from the source material is a miracle on its own. A drug-addled descent into madness, Burrough's book of the same name is better experienced by admiring the rhetoric and taking in the atmosphere...As is this film.

What the fuck

The beauty of this film is that this is about the writing of the book and may be exactly the way Burroughs remembers it. Apparently he actually WAS in Morrocco in the 50's, but to the day he died swore the manuscript just appeared on his desk one morning. Later on he shot paint cans with shotguns to create art/get off heroin... he DA MAN!

A Love it or Hate it movie. Although I loved the originality, the acting, the cinematoraphy and the weirdness of this movie, it made me say "WTF" too many times for me to still think it's worth seeing again :D. It's just WEIRD AS HELL! It's a 'simple' story about drugs, bugs, typewriters, killing your wife (again) and homosexuality mixed and brewed in a big pot of weirdness. There is nothing to get, it's just plain craziness at its best.