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A look back at David Croenenberg's Crash (1997)

What happens when the following individuals team up together to make a motion picture:

Producer, Director and Writer (from a book by J.G. Ballard: David Cronenberg

Actors:  James Spader
Holly Hunter 
Elias Koteas
Deborah Kara Unger 
Rosanna Arquette

The result is Crash, a film  rated NC 17 that i will never forget.  In fact, the first time that i saw the film was on a saturday afternoon in a dingy dive of a theatre in northeastern Pa.  Myself, and the young couple i went to see it with were the only ones in the theatre, with the exception of an old man who kept making strange noises through from his seat near the back row.  In fact, several times througout the film my friend couples hands were subtly working over each others body.  I was merely fascinated by the picture itself. Sexually charged?  Check.  Engrossing? Check.  Frightening look at reality? You betcha!

When all the hoopla came about about the raw sex scene in Brokeback mountain, i had to chuckle.  That scene can not even begin to compare to the scene between Spader and Koteas inside a convertible in Crash. Now that scene is RAW, and so frigging hot it was amazing.  The entire film oozes sexuality and sensuality that transcends gender and sexual identity.  It is also a cold, numbing picture at the same time.

There is every form of sex in this picture. Het Sex. Gay male Sex. Lesbian Sex.  Sex with leg wound. (yes i did type that.)

Go find this film and rent it if you havent seen it.  There is so much to discuss about this film, but i thought the easiest way toopen the discussion was with the sexual angle lol

If you have seen it What are your thoughts? 

In peace

 Just


nate9999's picture

BORING

I respect everyone in the cast, and love almost everything Cronenberg does, but this was SO boring. Rent eXistenZ instead.
Psionycx's picture

Crash

When I saw this years ago I recall thinking that Canadians were very, very odd.

The movie definitely oozes sexuality, and yes the bend-over-and-take-it-while-nuzzling-the-steering-wheel was hot. But otherwise the premise just seemed so bizarre that I had trouble getting into it.  It was beyond artsy and into the realm of the just plain weird.

Not that I don't believe that there's a fetish for everyone.

AllForYou8's picture

I Agree

I was entralled with this movie when it first came out. I remember reading about it in Newsweek thinking how odd to make a movie about people getting off on car accidents, but it never left my mind. When I finally saw it, I realized what the hype was about. I like the characters and the story. Also, the sex ain't too bad either. the scene where James and Deborah's characters are having sex and they're talking about other sexual experiences is SO hot. Thanks for bringing back the memories. I have to find this DVD on ebay. God, I dread all the hits I'll get from that other oscar winning God awful Crash movie. lol

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