Dalbert Pringle Have you ever been turned-on by the sight of "deep-gash" scar tissue? Does the thought of being in a car crash make you horny? Are you sexually aroused by grossly mangled and disfigured limbs? Well, if you answered "Yes" to even one of these "very revealing" questions, then Crash just might be the movie that you've been waiting to see for all of your miserable life.Directed by David Cronenberg (the ultimate master of movie mumbo-jumbo), Crash is a literal head-on collision with "weird". But this ain't no interesting sort of weird. No. This is the kind of weird that literally makes your skin crawl and leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Yep. There's no denying that.Crash is a steely-cold, and, yes, inhuman sort of movie. Its story takes a completely clinical look at alienated people, with their emotionally sterile lives, who find sexual arousal in automobile accidents and grossly disfigured bodies. (I don't get it)

arminhage After watching Couple of Cronenberg's films I got to the conclusion that probably he wishes to deliver some sort of improved version of Antonioni's nonsense. Generally his movies are within 100 minutes time frame yet the scenes related to the final resolve of his movies are far less, probably 20%. I say improved version not by his genuine intention. He works in Hollywood so he has to deliver something viable for investors with Hollywood mindset. "Crash" does not follow the acceptable Hollywood cliché which has been created for a reason, to make movies dynamic. The screenplay follows the 10% rule which has to offer the hero an opportunity out of his ordinary life but after that its free ride of total nonsense. Too many unnecessary and irrelevant scenes and rather disgusting emphasis on body fetish and pornographic to lure audience, make it erotic enough to follow the nonsense. I am not against pornography as long as it contributes to the final resolve of the movie but to squeeze such scenes into the movie to lure the audience, I find it insulting to the intelligence of the viewer and that is exactly what Cronenberg does. The movie is boring and hard to watch in one piece with lots of whispering hard to hear dialogue so I recommend watching the movie with subtitles although one would lose nothing if miss some of of the dialogue due to poor audio management. On short, the movie is about bunch of accident victims who developed accident and trauma fetish and that's it from start to finish, some grotesque scenes and too much sex, irrelevant sex.

videorama-759-859391 I take my hat off to original films like this, Cronenberg, his most daring work yet, where he's moved off from horror here. A trio of sex scenes for starters convinces us of that. A t.v director (Spader-adequate, but I really say, more miscast) has a head on smash, with another driver, the female passenger Hunter, oddly caressing her open breast, in the wake of the collision in full view of Spader. They meet up again, days later, Spader back in the driver's seat. He becomes drawn into a secret world of crash victims, who are sexually stimulated, by having sex in cars. Bringing the sexy and sexually unfulfilled wife, (Unger) into the group, could be an answer to their dry spell of a sex time. Wild card actor, Koteas, one of my favourite thespians, is flawlessly cast as, Vaughn, an adrenaline junkie driver, one of the very scarred, while also working as a doctor, who lives in his car. His wild rage exit at the end is smashingly great. One scene has him picking up a woman at the airport. He has sex with her, a sort of menais de trois, with out the third, a stiff driving Spader. A funny scene, has crippled Arguette, another of the group, trying out this new car, or more correctly, trying to see if she can find a perfectly designed car, fit for a perfectly designed body, while tearing up the upholstery, where Spader in the background, is trying to suppress his amusement. The best bit of Crash, of course, is the re-enactment of the James Dean car crash, truly authentic, these supposed stunt guys not mucking around, Vaughn, of course sitting in the drivers seat of the late great film star, while observers of the group watch from a stadium. Whatever your fancy, Crash, is different, one of the most original films I've seen in a while. It's style of originality is it's own self, where I recommend you see it once, then make up your mind. The sixty five page script is descriptively great. Don't confuse it with the Academy Award winning film of 2004 or the Michael Biehn film.

leplatypus As the movie already sucked abusively my time by watching it, i won't give it much for my review. In short, this movie belongs to my black list of useless, pretentious, stupid movies that try to depict the worst depravities as an interest for art (as "Blow", "Irreversible"). What's worst is that, as usual, the addition of big names (here, Cronenberg, Holly Hunter) tries hypocritically to give respectability and the movie establishment gives dumbly prizes to such crap! There's only one truth to remember: there's nothing romantic or light about licentiousness: those people are cruel and dehumanized!