CRASH (1996)
David Cronenberg's Crash was greeted with controversy when it was first released in 1996. A film that fuses sex and car accidents is bound to attract some attention, but Cronenberg's film is far more interested with the human mind than the sexualization of car crashes. Roger Ebert in his original review said that Crash is "like a porno movie made by a computer"; it is cold, its performances glacial, but underneath the seeming detachment, Cronenberg is examining a very simple thing; the human mind, and our compulsion to do something.
The fact we do not connect with any of the characters is because they are so glacial, so detached, apart from their world were car accidents and sex violently collide. The overt sexuality of the movie does not make it pornographic, that is merely the way Cronenberg decides to convey these characters and their story. The first images we see are naked bodies, and this becomes a frequent image in the film.
The fact we do not connect with any of the characters is because they are so glacial, so detached, apart from their world were car accidents and sex violently collide. The overt sexuality of the movie does not make it pornographic, that is merely the way Cronenberg decides to convey these characters and their story. The first images we see are naked bodies, and this becomes a frequent image in the film.
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