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[@thecursor1]

The scene is actually a metaphor about how being creative just involves repeating the most painful moments of your life, over and over, for an audience.

[@jasondean1634]

I think he's really just jotting it down on paper. But because we only have the POV of a drug fiend, we actually see him shooting his wife in front of the guards.

[@jasondean1634]

I know. He actually does it twice in the film!

[@quantumneuralnetworking4765]

Word to GOD brother

[@quantumneuralnetworking4765]

He was actually charged with her death and fleed his punishment in the USA by escaping from my memory of the events

[@MattCharles-c3e]

Its also a literal analogy to why Burroughs started writing he thought that shooting Joan messed him up to the point where he had no choice but to write

[@suttree3233]

I notice Cronenberg ends a bunch of his films--Naked Lunch, Videodrome, Dead Zone, History of Violence, Eastern Promises, Dangerous Method--on that same woeful look.

[@davmpls]

He never gives you relief from all the feels, does he?

[@adambeecroft9305]

Bit like original versi9n of solaris

[@stephenkissane4268]

The writer of naked lunch actually did accidentally kill his wife

[@kingbee1971]

We know.

[@stephenkissane4268]

@@kingbee1971 not everyone does

[@subsamadhi]

It most likely wasn't an accident there's speculation that Joan actually wanted to be unalived because Burroughs was cheating on her. The story is really messed up it's most likely not an accident

[@polreamonn]

We've all been there folks. We've done something "regrettable" and to cope, we go on a mammoth drug fuelled bender, head to an exotic locale, become an Operative, meet all types of interesting characters and have unbelievable adventures. But reality inevitably intrudes and we cannot escape from what we have done. The circle of life. Beautiful in its own way.

[@JoeKing69]

Damn that's one sturdy glass.

[@smeade96]

Brilliant ending.

[@lizzychrome7630]

This is one of the few scenes that makes sebse to me. To write something brilliant he has to relive his worst moment.

[@RonInbar]

Amazing movie

[@mattcunningham9235]

I always wanted that fucking tank car with the bedroom in the back. That thing is fucking baller

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

@@mattcunningham9235 Horrible vehicle probably.

[@RonInbar]

@@mattcunningham9235 it's a Bombardier B12. It's a Canadian icon

[@RonInbar]

The crescendo when he shoots her dead always gives me goosebumps. The music in this movie is a masterpiece. And the fact that in the same year, 1991, Howard Shore also composed the score for Silence of the Lambs is remarkable.

[@andrewbyrdful]

Anybody else realize the two border guards are the same guys that arrested him towards the beginning of the movie?

[@hummingpylon]

yes of course, he imagines them

[@zackpumpkinhead8882]

0:32 He said it!!! *HE SAID THE LIIIIIIIIINE*

[@pauulkubasek1815]

So sad

[@mm72213]

Name of movie please

[@vladimerk.8238]

Naked lunch

[@exeterjedi6730]

Naked Lunch