Crash (1996)
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Duration: 100 minuten
Country:
Canada
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Stars: James Spader, Holly Hunter and Elias Koteas
IMDb score:
6,4 (72.253)
Releasedate: 17 July 1996
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Crash plot
"Shocking. Powerful. Scandalous. Provocative. Erotic. Brilliant."
One night, James is involved in a car accident with Dr. Helen Remington, where her husband dies. The two discover that they were both sexually aroused by the crash, and soon join a group of car fetishists. The group's leader, Vaughan, involves Helen and James in his imitations of famous car accidents.
Actors and actresses
James Ballard
Helen Remington
Vaughan
Catherine Ballard
Gabrielle
Colin Seagrave
Vera Seagrave
Airport Hooker
Tattooist
A.D.
Reviews & comments
yeyo
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- 6358 messages
- 4629 votes
Fascinating film by Cronenberg, of course no bacon for everyone's mouth. Things like structure, story and character development all have to give way in this distant, disgusting study of sexual deviations. In a very interesting way it questions the limits of pornography and the sensationalism that goes with it. In addition, Crash is also a slightly moving story about insecure outsiders who are looking for their (sexual) identity. The set-up seems rather absurd, but due to the sparse dialogue and the total absence of motifs, the credibility is nevertheless preserved. Kudos also to Howard Shore, who delivers a very bleak, sober score.
Knowing Cronenberg, there is also a lot of rancidity and the film encountered a lot of misunderstanding at the time. Members of the Italian press went so far as to demand that Cronenberg relinquish his Cannes Special Jury Award. Total bullshit, since the behavior of the characters is anything but excused. Rather than banish is a film like Bad Boys II, where the protagonists also get horny from car accidents (and other degrading situations), but where the theme is glorified instead of objectively registered.
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Ferdydurke
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- 1353 messages
- 854 votes
Speed and steel don't like flesh and bones, Caroline Aiken once sang.
This film takes a different view on that.
The car accident as mating, entanglement, of hard metal and fragile flesh, and the fatal car accident as the ultimate orgasm.
James Dean became immortal by his death in his Porsche 550. It seems to be the goal the characters in Crash are aiming for. If possible with that Hollywood touch.
From the start, a heavily sensuous (not to say horny) atmosphere, with a score that perhaps doesn't support that so much, but adds something threatening and uncanny to it.
Spader and Unger play their roles as if in a daze, stretched taut as a spring, alternately held back and swirling with excitement. Hunter, Arquette and Koteas are in no way inferior to them.
Maybe one or two lesser scenes, but on the other hand a whole series that can be called very memorable. The opening. The first collision, god damn it, Hunter's bare chest. The car wash, of course.
My first impression is that Crash starts a little better than it ends. Still, great movie actually. The best I've seen from Cronenberg so far.
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