![]() The problem with this film (like many others) is that it is so far out there that you either hate it or love it. Ballards novel "Crash" which was quiet detached and cold, the director follows in style with the dark freeways of Canada, showing that even in your car you are not always save, and how a car can become the ultimate "drive" for pleasure. Cronenberg is trying to paint the audience a picture of an event like this. After the shock of crashing into a car, the adrenaline, the rush of the experience becomes so real, you feel so alive that you need to let it all out, which comes into the act of "making love". This is where Cronenberg has looked for a thrill that rushes into a perverse sexual outburst. All in all the thrill seek element isn't that original. You got a lot of so called thrill seekers now these days, which can result into ghost riding on the freeway, climbing on buildings without security etc. Cronenberg cuts a subject which is still very much of a taboo, the "thrill seeking taboo". First of all there are a serious amount of people who thought that the subject was laughable, and not to be taken serious, for how could you take something like this serious ? After crashing your car and being injured, having sex with the victim of a car-crash ? Apart from the post-traumatic stress that can appear after such an incident it also triggers a lot of adrenaline, which is almost a self produced drug. The review: To be quiet honest "Crash" is a very underestimated picture. Getting sucked into his world, Ballard becomes obsessed with car crashes, and dives into the illegal world of "thrill seeking" and raw and hard (but mostly cold) sex. Renegade scientist and leader of a strange subterranean group, Vaughan is only able to achieve sexual release by crashing into people on the motorways surrounding Heathrow airport. Their mutual Crash-victim status brings them closer together, ultimately delivering them into the sump-oil-soaked world of the pathological Vaughan (Elias Koteas). He gets into deeper contact with Helen Remington. Ballard ends up in the hospital, traumatized, trying to recover from his injuries. ![]() Remington's husband dies while being launched from his seat through his own windshield into Ballards. They crash frontally and both Ballard and Remington are seriously injured. Ellen Remington (Holly Hunter) and her husband. It is the husband James Ballard (James Spader) who gets into a car crash with Dr. The plot: A sexually frustrated couple starts experimenting with the outlines of anonymous sex. ![]() Again Cronenberg delivers a dive into human psychic, the world of dark obsession, and twisted fantasy's. "How many orgasms per mile can you get ?" This is one of the catching tag lines of the movie "Crash". ![]()
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