Naked Lunch...(13/7)

I called this achievement perhaps. After struggling for ages, finally I got a touch of the story - the Naked Lunch, in a by-passing manner...
Naked Lunch should always be regarded as one of the greatest works of Burroughs. I kept the book on my shelf for long time without the courage and patience to go into the script. Last time when I was in Portland, I spent hours in a giant bookshop named Powell’s in the evening, and I found all the works of William Burroughs selling at good prices. I bought quite some of them, but then I keep all of them resting in good peace and pieces for long time. Until now, I commenced by an interpretation of David Cronenberg. The director has always been being a favourite to me, and rooting from his unique beauty of film noir in film making, he has already established his stylish filming angle in The Fly decades ago. Cronenberg picked up the crux of the beat generation, and it is the truncated filming of bits and pieces along the storyboard. The setting and the atmosphere of the Interzone is a symbol of exotic dreamland to the culture of the film producer, the writer or the audience. Based on the international zone in Tangiers, Morocco where Burroughs lived for a period of time, the film created a dimension of hyper-high. Well, a very typial misfit of the US production on the landscape of exotic place appeared. Though Interzone can be a fake intersection in the naked banquet, a scene-set based on the Maghreb area needs not be a perfect imagination of the space for the junkies in the film of Cronenberg. The story depicts a very 'romantic' / 'self-centred' expression about writing and meditation. It touches though. Cronenberg tried to keep the essence of the works of Burroughs in some sense, and the script is flying high. This is a nice way to chase the dragon, perhaps. I have yet reached the climax of the 'Literary High' or 'Kafka High', but then, I still think. I have my sound machine. It works on me. Again, this is a scope of psychopharmacology. Let's Start Dizzy. As trademarked as works of Cronenberg in the 90's, the buggy typewriters were all the herbal characters in the film...Clark Nova or Martinelli, whatever it is named. Each of them possesses a feminine tenderness of touch and love to William Lee in the film. The film explicitly talked about gender and homosexuality. This is a topic of Burroughs' work too, and so Cronenberg expressed his view with the intimate typewriters the writers were using.
Doppelgänger is another topic the film covered. In fact, it has long been a choice of elements for fictions and films. A classic one would be Le Double Vie de Veronique. In Naked Lunch, Joan appeared two times in a symbolic form of figure that provided an exit to William, the representative (or called him an agent) to Burroughs (and/or Cronenberg). A state of sporadic hallucinations, quoted William in the film, offered the character his journey from the US to the Interzone, and from the Interzone to Annexia, a search of his Dr. Benway, or the creator of his dreams and life.
There is a script in the film, 'all is lost'. There is no meaning to 'all' in the world. Keep wandering and shooting.

By chance, I got two quotes this morning...
- Freedom comes when you learn to let go, creation comes when you learn to say no.
- Lightness weights when you let it a go, quietness sounds when you smash it your own show.