Sex and the Anxious Future

Audreanne 2022-03-24 09:02:16

Like other Cyberpunk films, "Desire Express" has a sensual veil over its serious subject matter. Actresses with big breasts and round hips, naked shots up and down, dazzling sports cars, behind these eye-catching visual elements are deep worries and anxiety about the future of mankind.

How will sex be positioned in the future society?

Compared with the savage nature, sexual behavior in modern society has the effect of relieving pressure in addition to passing on the lineage. Even the daily act of blasphemy has a desperate connotation of killing the next generation. Repression and anti-repression are always a pair of irreconcilable contradictions. The only time Deborah Kara Unger gets really wet is when she has sex with Elias Koteas in the back seat of the car, where her watery hands wet the back of her husband's seat. There is a complex connotation behind this impressive intention - want to get rid of repression, so seek to seek release in "indecent" sexual behavior, and all this happens in the body of repression, which makes people fall into "Depression can only be relieved temporarily, but cannot be eliminated forever". The footage of James Spader soothing Deborah Kara Unger's naked body in bed afterwards seems intimidating - you'll just get yourself bruised and bruised if you try to resist. As a wise human being, even if it is "indecent", I believe that the exploration will not stop. But all of this has an urgent premise: can sexual behavior break free from the moral shackles at the social level and allow the legitimate status of "human desire" to be recognized? This is an issue that will receive widespread attention in the near future.

Can you live happily as a married couple?

A step-by-step life is as tedious as a long queue in a traffic jam, and the depressing mood in a traffic jam is as palpable as unsatisfactory sex. JG Ballard, the original author of Crash, said: "After hearing so much road safety hype, it was almost a relief to let myself be in a car accident. This darkly humorous joke may be understood positively in this way: After being limited by so many rules and regulations, it is almost a relief to let yourself have a good sex life. James Spader and Holly Hunter making love in the cramped space of a car figuratively reminds us of the bondage we are living in today's suffocating sex life - how the shell of civilization traps the wild soul .

You are not cold-hearted, where is the way out?

Although the picture is bold and naked, it is not even sultry in the traditional sense in terms of look and feel. Different from the enjoyment expressions of Western AVs and the pretended groans of island films, the expressions of the characters in this film are almost blank when they have sex. As civilization progresses, especially when monogamy begins, couples face the paradox of less and less excitement and more and more sexual demands. Taking sex as a daily routine like a traffic jam is obviously unsatisfactory, so where is the high-quality sex in the future? Is it extramarital sex? Is it "quick sex"? Are you looking for a different scene? is exposed? Is it peeping? Is it a wife swap? Or homosexuality?

From the plot point of view, this is a peculiar but not a good-looking movie, but raising these thought-provoking questions to give the audience a glimpse of the possibilities of the future is already a great achievement. And everything is as unstoppable as a fast-moving car, as unstoppable as the hero and heroine at the end of the credits slip into the body of a destroyed car, and it is very meaningful to wake up the world, so that even if there are a few sections that are sleepy as if All can be forgiven. In the end, these actresses are so beautifully chosen, both in looks and body--nerds must love to die.

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Crash quotes

  • James Ballard: You should've gone to the funeral.

    Catherine Ballard: I wish I had. They bury the dead so quickly. They should leave them lying around for months.

  • James Ballard: You had sex with all those men in cars? Only in cars?

    Helen Remington: Yes. I didn't plan it that way.

    James Ballard: Did you fantasize that Vaughan was photographing all these sex acts as though they were traffic accidents?

    Helen Remington: Yes. They felt like traffic accidents.