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Crash [1996] | ![Crash [1996]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41KCA55CDML._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: David Cronenberg
Actors: James Spader, Holly Hunter, Deborah Unger, Rosanna Arquette
Studio: 4 Front Video
Category: Video
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 4763
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Running Time: 96 Minutes
EAN: 5014138284640
ASIN: B000056Q8J
Theatrical Release Date: 1996
Release Date: July 1, 2002
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Adapted from the controversial novel by J.G. Ballard, Crash will either repel or amaze you, with little or no room for a neutral reaction. The film is perfectly matched to the artistic and intellectual proclivities of director David Cronenberg, who has used the inspiration of Ballard's novel to create what critic Roger Ebert has described as "a dissection of the mechanics of pornography". Filmed with a metallic colour scheme and a dominant tone of emotional detachment, the story focuses on a close-knit group of people who have developed a sexual fetish around the collision of automobiles. They use cars as a tool of arousal, in which orgasm is directly connected to death-defying temptations of fate at high speeds. Ballard wrote his book to illustrate the connections between sex and technology--the ultimate postmodern melding of flesh and machine--and Cronenberg takes this theme to the final frontier of sexual expression. Holly Hunter, James Spader and Deborah Unger are utterly fearless in roles that few actors would dare to play, and their surrender to Cronenberg's vision makes Crash an utterly unique and challenging film experience. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
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Not for dummies November 18, 2007
Jay Zee (UK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The dialogue is so thin you have to invent a lot of the story for yourself. Good crew with some good performances and just on the Art House side of Soft Porn. Should have been better.
Unbelievable but intriguing June 8, 2007
pointone (Bournemouth UK)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
For me this is a love hate movie.
The hate side is I cannot understand the motivation of the characters who get sexually aroused by car crashes (and not very aroused at that) either watching crashes or being involved.
The love aspect is the high quality of the production, acting and sound track. Whilst totally disbelieving of the story I became thoroughly engaged. The long languorous sex scenes between James Ballard (James Spader) and Helen Remington (Holly Hunter) seem more about explaining what the characters think rather than sex.
Maybe this is an American cultural thing, or alternatively the drama is based on the concept that fear is a powerful aphrodisiac.
Unusual, intriguing, well worth a rental.
 I'd rather chew my own leg off January 2, 2007
E. L. Shiel (brighton)
1 out of 12 found this review helpful
I turned this film off after about 25 mins. This film is trying to be shocking for the sake of it. The plot is terrible, supported by very poor sex scenes. If you want to see a film that is actually shocking and deals with dark issues, you'd be much better off watching Delicatessen, or The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover.
seedy but entertaining enough October 30, 2006
sean paul mccann (ireland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
crash is a david cronenberg film that was released in 1996 to mixed reviews and i guess thats how my review is as well,while the film is well shot with a very dark theme underlying it all,the film is also pretty intelligent with some sparkling performances.
the film deals with a bunch of people who represent a side of society that on the surface look normal and maybe even respected,but they all get aroused by carcrashes and the pain they cause and the end of something beautiful,so there are themes here that may well be different for everyone,the film is disturbing,sistasteful with a bunch of people that have little morals or care for each other but this is still worth watching.
 Sex & Drags & Wreck & Roll (Part 1) October 13, 2006
Adrian Stranik (London)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Not to be confused with this years Oscar winning sensation, you can't help but conclude that Crash 2005 must be referencing its older namesake with the opening dialogue... "We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much that we crash into each other just so we can feel something." Crash 2005 is a blockbuster on the controversial subject of racial tensions in Los Angeles.
Crash 1996 was just plain... controversial.
A decade ago the British press ran a series of front page appeals for governmental pressure to ban a new film which they'd described as "Beyond the bounds of depravity."
The 1973 J.G Ballard novel, on which the film is based, had long been a favourite of mine but as the controversy raged on throughout the summer of `96' it became apparent that the film may never be shown in the U.K. Crash had already been released in France, so by the time this idiocy hit the point where an audience of paraplegics were invited for a special screening to see if they were offended or not, I had no choice but to leave for Paris where exactly one year later Ballard's `cautionary tale' of car crash celebrity deaths would reach an apotheosis of sorts in an underpass at the Pont D'Alma.
Described by its author as "the first pornographic novel about technology" the book is about a group of car crash survivors who, led by deranged T.V scientist Vaughn, see the car crash as a new form of sexual perversion. Vaughn's ultimate fantasy is to die in a head-on collision with the actress Elizabeth Taylor who, throughout the 60's and 70's was the Princess Diana of her day; constantly hounded by the press and ultimately crucified on the beam of her own celebrity.
The film adaptation, directed by David Cronenberg, avoids the heavy traffic of `serial bride' Liz's potential legititive clout and instead becomes `a futuristic love story set in the present'. James (James Spader) and Catherine (Deborah Kara-Ungar) are a married couple so filled with inertia that they are desperate for some emotional connection by any means necessary. After a series of extra martial encounters they find themselves attracted to a group of disturbed members of a bizarre car-crash sect who enact famous car crashes for kicks. The pair soon find themselves willing accomplices in a tableaux of violence and desire until finally they attain some provisional approximation of actual love.
Kara-Ungar's portrayal of Catherine exemplifies perfectly the icy detachment of a woman who appears to be observing herself from another galaxy. Unfortunately, the film hinges on a moment where the groups leader Vaughn, played by Elias Koteus who explains his philosophy of auto-geddon as a fertilising event rather than a destructive one to his disciple James. Koteus' delivery is addled and Spader (understandably) laughs; blowing the scene and almost the entire film with it.
Nevertheless Crash is, above all, a brave attempt to explore an almost un-bearable subject - the death of affect and our unconscious desire for violence. As we're bombarded with pseudo-events and war entertainment - designed to make us consume in ways that are of optimum benefit to multi-national conglomerates who really (forget governments) walk where the power is - Cronenberg's Crash is as much a road sign warning of our impending emotional bankruptcy as it is to the sexual ambiguity of the highway pile up.
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