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SPIDER

With Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, Lynn Redgrave, John Neville, Bradley Hall

Directed by David Cronenberg

For his first movie of the new millennium (in 2002), Cronenberg head to a depressing post WWII, grey industrialized London, entering the distorted mind of a man released from a halfway house for the mentally disturbed. His difficulty to integrate back into normal society is a slow, laborious and often uncomfortable experience, as his obsession with an experience in his childhood digs in its claws. Fiennes’ portrayal of Dennis “Spider” Cleg is a tiring, frustrating experience as he mumbles through the slow scenes of how he perceives things to be, as opposed to how they really are.
You're taken into the mind of a disturbed man, and don't expect it to be pleasant.
Not my favourite Cronenberg movie, but that does not mean it is a bad one.
Based on Patrick McGrath’s novel.
May be seen in a different light if watched again several years after your first viewing.


3 / C
- Paul Blom



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A: Multi-Viewing Potential

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C: Once Should Suffice



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