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Rating of
3/4
Crash (1996) review
Daniel Corleone - wrote on 11/29/2012
Understanding and appreciating a David Cronenberg film can either be frustrating or enjoyable. This would depend if one has seen most of his films. A psychological drama based on a novel whose main characters are James Ballard (James Spader), a film producer, and his wife, Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger), who both are in a marriage were they openly can make love to different partners. Clearly whenever they "do it" one is not fully satisfied. James has an accident and Dr. Helen Remington (Holly Hunter) is involved. Vaughan (Elias Koteas) becomes fascinated with the physical injuries of James and Gabrielle (Rosanna Arquette) will be fancied by James. The performances were solid, car crashes so authentic and pace just right. Soundtrack was descent though you would rather focus on the …
Rating of
2.5/4
"Crash" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 02/16/2012
David Cronenberg's adaptation of J. G. Ballard's novel revolves around a group of fetishists whose near death experiences in road accidents cause them to garner erotic pleasure from the sights and sounds of auto wrecks. As immaculately directed as it is, Crash will most certainly not to be to everyone's tastes. It's a study of the alienation from humanity of a group of individuals whose sexual encounters are little more than a series of impersonally brief and violent collisions, loaded with imagery of contorted figures and bondage fetishism. It's a strangely cold and distant film for something so full of sexual metaphors and eroticism, but that's kind of the point. James Spader made a career out of playing these kinds of sexually and socially deviant types, and Elias Koteas is one of the …
Rating of
1.5/4
Laughable if it wasn't so boring.
jmoney1776 - wrote on 11/06/2007
Cronenberg is an enigma. He makes well crafted movies that are intended to get under your skin. He doesn't deal in happy go lucky stories and sometimes he is incredibly successful at his trade. The Dead Zone, The Fly, Scanners, and A History of Violence are all wonderful films that do exactly what they're supposed to. Then there's the Cronenberg that makes Crash.
Crash, in a nut shell, is about people who get off sexually by being in car crashes, or at least being around them. Based on a novel by J.G. Ballard, the story itself fits Cronenberg like a glove. It's the wooden performances that really make this movie laughable. I understand that Cronenberg is going for detachment with these characters but generally I have to at least believe that people are mildly interested in what's …
