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How sad is this?

Good concept, poorly executed.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Cronerberg is often considered the King of Venereal Horror in film world.His films are complex and brutal psychic study of the filth and bestial nature of human beings.It is difficult to watch his films. "The Fly"is one of his most talked about films which stars Jeff Goldblum in the lead role. "Spider" is not as disturbing as his other films usually do,but is intriguing. The movie stars Ralph Fiennes as a mentally disturbed person residing in a halfhouse where he hallucinates his childhood memories assuming himself to be a silent observer. Ralph Fiennes completely blows me away with his stupendous performance...... murmuring gibberish,scribbling nonsense in his diary..all seems so haunting and realistic.The way he handles the role,it shows his calibre as an artist of his business.Miranda Richardson also gives a quite unsettling performance, as the film goes by,you will understand and mark my words you will be totally in awe of her role.The film is justifiably genred as a horror,and horror is not always jumpscare.The gloomy atmosphere of halfway house with the perfect absorbing score by Howard Shore will hold you tight to the seat,the movie is slow, but it will gradually engulf you to it's centre.Cronerberg has wonderfully adapted his film from a novel by Patrick McGrath which is said equally absorbing.The film has tempted me to watch more of Cronerberg's works.

Spider moves like few other movies, you could say the move walks as Its own main character, The plot here, is thin of action, a schizophrenic man, goes to a half-way house in the neighborhood he used to live. In the meantime he writes and remembers the things he lived in the past, showing the story of his family and its final tragic ending. In many ways, it is Spider who webs the plot of the story; it is amazing to see the work of Cronenberg, as he blends the movie and the character together. The acting of all actors are incredible, specially Ralph Fiennes and Miranda Richardson. Miranda does an amazing job fooling us, or at least, confusing us, almost to the very ending.A courageous and interesting portray of a person with schizophrenia, but of language and the possibilities of cinema, besides being an amazing work of everyone involved.

Spider is a fascinating story of a mentally ill man, released to a halfway house from a sanatorium, who attempts to piece together the events that led to his lengthy hospital stay. Along the way, reality and his memories clash, blend, and intertwine.At first, Spider (Ralph Fiennes) does not seem to be a prime candidate for release from a mental hospital. He speaks in tremulous mumbles, has a hunched-over limp, and frequently eyes the ground for items of interest. He takes up residence in a dilapidated group home run by the tyrannical Mrs. Wilkinson (Lynn Redgrave) and makes tentative friends with some of the residents, notably Terrence (John Neville).Spider has a small suitcase containing memories from his childhood and a journal in which he records his investigations into his past - in the sort of indecipherable scribble that even ancient Babylonians would consider illegible. Or maybe it was shorthand. Either way, Joe Viewer won't be able to read it.He flashes back to his days living with his doting mother (Miranda Richardson) and loutish father (Gabriel Byrne). Little Spider, who seems different somehow, looks to be more of an obstacle to his father, who frequently needs "rescuing" from the local pub around dinner time. His father's lifestyle and mother's lack of empowerment lead to a short sequence of events that ends in tragedy, something the viewer only learns late in the film.But the mystery of Spider's past is only part of the story. Cronenberg deftly moves between the past and present; in many scenes, grown-up Spider watches events involving his younger self, at least the way he remembered it. The temporal fugue allows Spider a new perspective on his past and fills in gaps in his memories. But it's really a test of his own mental faculties: after facing up to what happened all of those years ago, is he truly ready for society? Why is he in a halfway house? Why this one in particular? Fiennes is aces, as is Richardson in a dual role. I loved seeing John Neville, if only in a few scenes, and even Gabriel Byrne does an okay job. That's not easy for Gabriel Byrne.

Spider marks David Cronenberg's inevitable move from body horror and dark fantasy into more realistic (if that term can be used) realms, and further into the human psych, even more so than 1996's Crash. Over the following decade Cronenberg would go on to make A History of Violence, Eastern Promises and A Dangerous Method, three films which would move further away from the body and into the mind, into the roots of human violence and psychosis, and all three would achieve more commercial success than anything Cronenberg made before. Spider isn't quite as communicative as those three, and it suffers from some pacing problems, but by its own right it's a fascinating film and a unique one in Cronenberg's filmography.Spider has many flaws, but it excels wonderfully in two aspects. First, a truly powerful twist ending, which never feels far-fetched, and in fact can be anticipated some time in advance by an observant viewer, and yet manages to shock even if you knew it was coming, much more so than most famous twists in more recent films. Second, in that it creates real tension and interest while nothing much ever really happens on screen (and in that regard it's easy to compare it to Shutter Island, which is based around some similar themes, with a much more complex and contrived plot and with a much less effective ending). It doesn't always work; the pacing is off sometimes and some parts of the films drag by and lose the viewer's interest. It takes a lot of patience to go through, more than classic Cronenberg fantasies like Videodrome or The Fly, and more than the more fast-paced A History of Violence and Eastern Promises. But it's more rewarding in its own way, and the ending is good enough that you might want to watch it a second time.