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Crash

Crash (1997)

March. 20,1997
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6.4
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NC-17
| Drama

After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.

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PimpinAinttEasy
1997/03/20

Dear David Cronenberg, I take my hat off to you for making a movie based on Ballard's Crash. It really pushes the limits of what can be put/shown on film. The film was true to the book. You captured the coldness and in-humaneness of these characters who are lost in their sexual fantasies. But like in the book, it is the same sexual fantasy and its variations repeated over and over again. It did get pretty tedious after a while. Ballard wrote this in the introduction to his book - "Crash is an extreme metaphor for an extreme situation." Well, I do spend time at work browsing through pictures of supermodels with whom I would never get to sleep. And I do hold those women up as the ultimate standard of beauty. So that is a bit of an extreme situation as it could lead to disillusionment. I guess this is what Ballard was talking about when he wrote - "the ultimate role of Crash is cautionary, a warning against that brutal, erotic, and overlit realm that beckons more and more persuasively to us from the margins of the technological landscape." The actors looked cold, distant and aroused all the time. Best Regards, Pimpin. (6/10)

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Robert Brogan
1997/03/21

Crash is a film I do not have many good things to say about and yet still cannot downrate it because I do like the cast and always enjoy the signature Cronenberg material sensuality that conveys highly distinct tactile sensations via light and sound. That said, Crash is a boring movie and not so much edgy as something to be endured. Crash does not feel cool or adventurous and yet most of the film is action; it is like a pornographic movie -- not much plot but just goes through different scenarios, yet does not feel sexy and so does not create tension. The vibe is corrupt, uncool, and dystopic like a glam rock band playing in the mid 90s to a bored audience in a half-filled stadium that needs to be torn down. They smash their gear and we can only think that it was not worth it, what a waste. I would like to think this was all intentional, because I like other Cronenberg films, but cannot really recommend it except to the curious ones that want to see something different.

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neerajmake-believe
1997/03/22

Really take my word, but if you wanna jiggle your tissues, go ahead -here is short version, there is awful story, just about sex, and even not any good ones, just not recommended to anyone, i am serious man, my reviews will always be helpful, i have very critical view points and if you watched the movie and liked it, be sure to watch Pirates XXX 2005 this one will also be your favorite,plus sign up for some porn later on, they are getting cheap now and even better quality and standard, they don't have gay sex in middle of something, In Short this movie is for psychopaths, and criminals, other weirdos. please like my review for future , down to earth, non-profit, unbiased reviews to short up time for watching bad bad movies.

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poe426
1997/03/23

David Cronenberg probably said all he really needed to say about Sex in VIDEODROME; however, that didn't stop him from making CRASH. CRASH is a pile up, pile ON kind of movie that's far FUNNIER than it is thought-provoking. I must admit I almost broke up when, having narrowly survived a "re-enactment" of the crash that killed James Dean, "Vaughn" announces he wants to do "the Jayne Mansfield" re-enactment next. (Anyone even vaguely familiar with THAT particular tragedy will understand why I had a hard time not braying like a jackass...) "It's something we're all intimately involved in," he says: "The reshaping of the human body by modern technology." "Vaughn isn't interested in pedestrians," Spader as Ballard offers at one point. No, it's the auto-erotic lube job that sets Vaughn's tail pipe all aquiver. Cronenberg once made it a point of delving into the darker side(s) of Human Nature, usually setting said excursions in the "biohorror" genre he himself pioneered, but, by the time he got to CRASH, he seemed more or less to be running on cruise control. Only for the stout of stick shift...

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