Naked Lunch Explained: Cronenberg, Burroughs, and the Most Unfilmable Novel Ever

February 1
1h 47m

Episode Description

David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch is not an adaptation: it’s a psychological autopsy.

 

In this episode of Four Play, we dive deep into one of the most challenging films ever released by a major director: Cronenberg’s surreal, disturbing, and deeply personal interpretation of William S. Burroughs’ life and work.

 

Rather than translating Burroughs’ famously “unfilmable” novel to the screen, Naked Lunch fuses biography, addiction, sexuality, guilt, and creativity into a dream-logic nightmare that feels closer to a hallucination than a movie.

 

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