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Naked Lunch

1991 · 115 min

Crime, Drama

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.

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Appeals to viewers drawn to unsettling literary surrealism, grotesque imagery, and psychologically fractured journeys through addiction and creativity.

Tone
surreal, eerie, bleak
Payoff
unease, revelation
Pacing
slow-burn
Intensity
intense
Structure
linear
Themes
addiction, artistic creation, guilt, identity, repression
Setting
mid-twentieth-century, hallucinatory urban enclaves and mutating expatriate city

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