Spider

Spider is an exploration of a schizophrenic mind told through the eyes of a grown man who is given a room in a house catering for mentally disturbed persons. The man has just been released from a mental institution and in his new abode

starts piecing together or recreating in his memory an apparently fateful childhood event. The grown man roams the nearby derelict urban area and the local canal and starts to relive or visualize a period of his childhood with his mother

and his father. Set in 1950s London, exterior shots were made at Kennington for the gas towers and Pullens buildings in Walworth made the exterior for 'Pegge Street'. In this visualization, a shift takes place in the child's psyche when

he witnesses his mother groping with his father in the garden and, subsequently, when he sees his mother in a silky night gown she wore for his father. The son, as a grown man seems to recreate in his memory the build up to his father's

murder of his mother with the passive support of his mistress who then moves into the house and is presented as his mother. The young son then kills the mistress by gassing her in the kitchen.

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Titolo originale: Spider
Paese: Canada, Regno Unito
Anno: 2002
Durata: 98 min
Genere: drammatico
Regia: David Cronenberg
Casa di produzione: Capitol Films, Artists Independent Productions
Interpreti:
Ralph Fiennes: Dennis "Spider" Cleg
Bradley Hall: Dennis "Spider" Cleg (giovane)
Miranda Richardson: Signora Cleg (madre di Dennis) e Yvonne
Gabriel Byrne: Bill Cleg (padre di Dennis)
Lynn Redgrave: Signora Wilkinson
John Neville: Terrence
Fonte: DVD5
Lingue: Ita-Eng Sub Ita


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