Crash

1997 "Shocking. Powerful. Scandalous. Provocative. Erotic. Brilliant."
6.4| 1h40m| NC-17| en| More Info
Released: 20 March 1997 Released
Producted By: Alliance Atlantis
Country: United Kingdom
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After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Console best movie i've ever seen.
Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
AndrewTheGreatAndPowerful Crash explores a fetish for car accidents. The movie's been praised for its depiction of sex. The free love is refreshing at first. As it dives deeper, the audience feels alienated rather than enlightened.The movie seems to revel in its weirdness. Strange dialog and score. The characters like being outcasts. The whole tone is dark. The filmmakers wanted the movie to feel creepy. In contrast, a lighter tone would have felt more sexually liberating. Instead it reminds you that while you can practice sex how you like, you'll still be judged for it.Side note: The sex scenes actually seem "grown up". It's too bad a film like this faced a lot of controversy. A typical porn film is infinitely more graphic.
dee.reid BEWARE: 1996's "Crash" is not the same 2004 film directed by Paul Haggis that won Best Picture at the Academy Awards for 2005; I still think that "Brokeback Mountain" should have won that year, and that remains one of the biggest disappointments in Oscar history, but I digress.No."Crash" is the infamous 1996 erotic psychological thriller from the controversial Canadian born-&-bred David Cronenberg ("The Fly," "Dead Ringers," "Videodrome," "Scanners"), who both wrote and directed the film, and also served as a producer. "Crash" is by far the most provocative and sexually explicit film Cronenberg has ever done - going so far as to earn the dreaded "NC-17" rating, yet still somehow winning the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and being nominated also for the prestigious Palme d'Or. That says something for a film that borders on being soft-core pornography, or does it?Despite its graphic depiction of human sexuality (most of it taking place behind the wheel, rather than in the bedroom), Cronenberg is actually striving for something bigger here, which is how people are transformed, physically, psychologically and SEXUALLY, by the car crash (and to a greater extent, how human beings are being transformed by technology itself). "Crash" examines this by peering into a world that examines the cathartic sexual release granted to some by automobile accidents. It's a premise that will certainly make people think twice about getting behind the wheel again, and is a premise that also caused a huge sensation when the late author J.G. Ballard published his controversial novel - from which this film is based - of the same name back in 1973. (Quite frankly, it's very easy to imagine how unnerved some people might have been in 1996 after viewing this movie in the theater, and then thinking about the drive home afterward.)In the words of one observer, the characters in "Crash" "are their own potential killers, who make themselves vulnerable to death every time they climb into their conveyances." Set in Ontario, Canada, bored film director James Ballard (James Spader, an obvious stand-in for the author of the original novel) seeks greater sexual experiences than the mundane pleasures offered to him by his crumbling open marriage to his wife Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger). One night, Ballard gets into a serious, near-fatal car accident - a head-on collision with another vehicle - and winds up in the hospital, horribly scarred and with his left leg in a rather scary-looking contraption that I'm only guessing is a leg brace of some sort.While recovering at the hospital, he learns that the accident killed the driver of the other car, but left the passenger, Dr. Helen Remington (Holly Hunter), a widow. He also by chance meets Dr. Remington's associate Vaughan (Elias Koteas), a car accident-obsessed, slightly mad rogue doctor who leads an underground sub-culture that re-stages famous car crashes - the September 30, 1955, car crash that killed Hollywood movie star James Dean gets a lot of special attention here.Vaughan's special little "project" aims to examine how the energy of a car crash is not only a form of sexual catharsis, but is also a trans-formative, or "fertilizing" (rather than destructive), event for the crash victim - something that happens to liberate the victim from the boundaries of (what we consider to be) normal sexual experience, which, of course, is provided they even SURVIVE the crash in the first place. Himself a badly scarred car crash survivor, his re-staging of famous car accidents is a ploy to open up new sexual horizons for others, and he's pulled Ballard, who is by no means an unwilling participant (in fact, his initial car accident was a baptism, of sorts), into his dark world of "auto-erotica" in an effort to gain sexual satisfaction from his marriage to Catherine. Sex happens a lot in this picture, most of it in cars (hence the spin on the term, "auto- erotica"), between men and women, women and women, and men and men; it shows that Cronenberg doesn't like to play favorites and since his movie is about pushing boundaries, there's also some "scar play" in there, as well - look at what Gabrielle (Rosanna Arquette) is wearing to the party.As a long-time fan of David Cronenberg ("The Fly" still remains his masterpiece to me), I've waited a long time to see "Crash," as it shows that he was gradually moving away from the so-called "body horror" that defined much of his early career and also like the characters in this film, he was seeking new horizons to explore. Of course since the beginning of the 21st century, Cronenberg's profile has gone increasingly mainstream and he has been heavily involved in making thrillers of various types - "A History of Violence" (2005) and "Eastern Promises" (2007) come to mind - that have explored new thematic territories but his boundary-pushing auteur style and philosophical fascinations of bodily destruction remain largely unchanged."Crash" is a controversial (albeit needlessly so) film, no doubt, from a controversial, yet endlessly masterful and fascinating, filmmaker. It's dark, it's sexually explicit and grotesquely violent in many areas, but like all of Cronenberg's work, you just can't turn away - no matter how repulsed or disgusted you are by everything that you're seeing. "Crash" is by no means for those with a weak stomach - heed the "NC-17" rating, folks - but it is something that can open your eyes and stimulate your senses in ways few filmmakers are willing to do anymore.8/10
Danny Blankenship Finally after all these years I watched "Crash" and I must say it was fine it didn't let me down. As watching many David Cronenberg movies you know that they are different and raw and often travel on the edge and show the dark nature of life. With this picture "Crash" it shows just how people can become obsessed with pleasure after near fatal death. Really watching this is like a psycho sexual journey. Anyway James Spader is James Ballard a film director who in his spare time likes having sex with Asian ladies as his wife Catherine(Deborah Kara Unger)is somewhat of a bore to him. Well after James becomes involved in a near fatal car crash the incident leads to a meeting with Dr. Helen Remington(Holly Hunter)and soon the two develop a passion and an erotic attraction it's now a cat and mouse game of car sex and this underground underworld is a culture of raw violence and raw sexual conquest(Note I really enjoyed the scene of Holly in that silk satin sexy purple colored bra!) This film is clearly different as it explores erotic means and sexual ends in a raw and different way from the norm yet it proves and shows that people's attraction and energy is not the norm when involving sex and passion. "Crash" is one cult classic film that stands on it's own.
neerajmake-believe Really take my word, but if you wanna jiggle your tissues, go ahead -here is short version, there is awful story, just about sex, and even not any good ones, just not recommended to anyone, i am serious man, my reviews will always be helpful, i have very critical view points and if you watched the movie and liked it, be sure to watch Pirates XXX 2005 this one will also be your favorite,plus sign up for some porn later on, they are getting cheap now and even better quality and standard, they don't have gay sex in middle of something, In Short this movie is for psychopaths, and criminals, other weirdos. please like my review for future , down to earth, non-profit, unbiased reviews to short up time for watching bad bad movies.