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David Cronenberg sais his latest movie didn't need special effects to portray the horrors of mental illness "Spider," which had its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday, instead relies almost solely on the performance of Oscar-nominated actor Ralph Fiennes as a schizophrenic man tormented by the murder of his mother.
"There are no spiders...I thought it would have been too obvious, and I had my favorite and best Spider already (Fiennes), so I didn't need to add any more. I thought it was remarkable restrained of me to not have any spiders," Cronenberg told a media conference. "To me the special effects aspect of filmmaking is nothing special at all. It's not different from editing or acting or costuming....it's a tool that you use if you have to."
The film, which made its world premiere in May at Cannes, weaves the story of the title character, a muttering, confused mental patient prematurely released from an asylum into the East London neighborhood where he was raised. As he revisits his old haunts, the truth about his mother's death is revealed in a web of memories and flashbacks.
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Fiennes said to prepare for the role he met several schizophrenics and studied the disease. He said the decision to portray the character with almost no dialogue proved to be relatively easy.
"In a curious way I felt quite freed by not having a lot of dialogue. I liked the chance to, as it were, express a character mostly physically or through inarticulate mutterings and mumblings," he said.