The power of the original

Joanie 2021-12-22 08:01:27

Just finished reading the original novel of "Crash", the Hong Kong version. It is no exaggeration for Ballard to be regarded as the literary tutor of "Cyberpunk". The mainland only released another Ballard novel that was also adapted into a movie-"Empire of the Sun". It is estimated that "Crash", a heterochromatic novel full of sexual descriptions, will not be published in the mainland for the time being. If it is published, it may be half-worded. Even when this book was first published in the UK, it hit a wall everywhere. I've seen the movie and the book, and when I sit in the driver's seat, my heart is already beating wildly.
The comments on "Crash" are already quite comprehensive. Zhang Yuan also has a comment in the book "My Camera Doesn't Lie", so I won't be wordy anymore. Just transcribe the end of a paragraph in the original chapter for you.
"I looked at the night sky and felt that the entire landscape seemed to be bathed in his body fluids. It drives thousands of engines, circuit boards and personal destiny, irrigating the smallest gestures in our lives..."
Big guard. Konnenberg's movies are basically loyal to the original, shooting that kind of cold sexy. What a pity David. Lin Qi didn't grab Ballard's script beforehand, or, maybe there would be no "Lost Highway".

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Extended Reading
  • Anais 2022-03-26 09:01:07

    This story at least tells us how to have sex in the car in the most romantic and cool way, and it's a good idea to have sex while having sex... The art of making love is so slow and art is definitely a skill that needs constant practice!

  • Devonte 2022-04-21 09:02:35

    The licking of scars, the fascination with car accident scenes, and the projection of sex into sex are all the venting and possession of desire, the frantic pursuit of stimulation, and the rise from the excitement of the physical body to the perverted paranoia in the brain. It's about the layers of the disease.

Crash quotes

  • Vaughan: I've always wanted to drive a crashed car.

    James Ballard: You could get your wish at any moment.

    Vaughan: No, I mean a crashed car with a history. Camus' Facel Vega, Nathaniel West's station wagon, Grace Kelly's Rover 3500. Just fix it enough to get it rolling. Don't clean it, don't touch anything else.

  • James Ballard: Do you see Kennedy's assassination as a special kind of car crash?

    Vaughan: The case could be made.