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
1
2
3
4
5
6
A
-
B
-
C
click
below
for
more
Cronenberg
movies
|