Naked Lunch
Seriously, I have never seen something like this before. I have never seen Requiem for a Dream nor Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (although I plan on seeing both of them), so this movie definitely was quite a trip. Besides that drugs are involved, I had no idea what this film would be about, and watching it was a little bit of a surprise trip as “25th Hour” was – only that it wasn’t able to impress me that much (I actually doubt any film can impress me the same way as “25th Hour” did anymore).
What can I say else: This is an adaptation and most likely a rather good one, the direction and actors are brilliant, the amazing revelations of the story are well-made and the storytelling is great and made it quite suspense. However, I suspect that the book is better and in many ways deeper, so perhaps I will read it one day.
I think that the Wilhelm Tell game is somewhat intriguing, the ‘monster’ typing machines were absolutely cool and my favorite character of the film was this young gay boy who was just being nice and did nothing, heh. I guess my impressions of the film are mainly superficial, and ultimately it was primarily a very enjoyable, interesting film for me – and it will stay memorable for me because it was unusual in terms of style and storytelling, but I don’t have any interesting thoughts about it.
PS. I have no idea why there is this critic who calls this a “conventional bildungsroman“. I also love how the english Wikipedia has no example for a bildungsroman, the german has many examples (some of them which I don’t know) while leaving out the one book that I really consider a bildungsroman: L’éducation sentimentale by Flaubert, which – of course – is mentioned in the french Wikipedia *g* I have never read that book although I own it; but I definitely am going to, because Woody Allen’s character mentions it in “Manhattan” as one of the reasons for living, heh.