Crash Comments

  • Modesto 2021-12-22 08:01:27

    [A-] I'm dumbfounded, but I'm also hardened. I never thought that the relationship between sex and car would be so close, or that the position exchange was staggering: the former became more and more "mechanical" in the process of industrialization, while the latter became a "lover"-like existence. When the camera slowly glanced over the two people lingering on the balcony, focusing on the busy world below, we could intuitively experience the construction of this connection. The stitched scars...

  • Michele 2021-12-22 08:01:27

    Only viewing is the problem, but it is the most deadly problem. Similar to Pasolini’s shortcomings, the distortion and fanaticism of the dystopia in the image did not penetrate the film grammar outside the image. Cronenberg lacked a special “tonality” to set enough time for his world. Reliability, so that we can only connect the car accident and the sexual experience from the senses, and the metaphor between the two is reduced to a blunt metonymy. The same problem is not the first time that...

  • Angel 2021-12-22 08:01:27

    Sexual and violent profiling-the whole story is full of continuous crashes and sex, nothing else. An empty urban youth who expresses a decadent and illusory outlook on life and strives to seek excitement in high-pitched events. It's really nothing good, even James' handsome face is lost and unable to stand up. As a niche film, there may be many literary and artistic men's criminals who will like...

Extended Reading

Crash quotes

  • Vaughan: [speaking into microphone] I myself shall play the role of Dean's racing mechanic Rolf Voudrich, sent over from the Porsche factory in Zuffenhausen, Germany. Now, this mechanic was himself fated to die in a car crash in Germany 26 years later.

  • James Ballard: After being bombarded endlessly by road safety propaganda, almost a relief to have found myself in an actual accident.