Crash (1997)

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After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

This really is weird and sick. The film is not boring at all. It is really twisted from beginning to end. The violence is a little sickening but the real shocks come from the perverse and sick acts that are performed in the film. There are no points that you don't want to watch but there are points when you don't want to see. Nothing particularly profound in this film but it makes you wonder what other people are doing and it makes you realise how much you are reliant on other people not wanting to kill themselves on the roads bringing you down to. Don't drive immediately after this.

This is without a doubt one of the worst movies I have ever seen; maybe not top five but definitely top ten. Put it this way, I have only ejected a DVD before a movie was over twice before, this came close to being the third. The only thing that kept me watching was all the beautiful naked women. I'm trying to figure out if the director of the movie put all the naked women in to keep people like me watching until the end of the movie, or if this incredibly ridiculous movie was made as a way for beautiful women to get naked on screen. Either way, it was a waste of time. The app won't let me submit this review until I write 10 lines and there is really not much more to say so this part here is just fill until I can hit submit and let people know how bad this movie is.

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.

Catherine Ballard (Deborah Kara Unger) is hypersexual. She and her husband James Ballard (James Spader) have an unconventional marriage. James causes a car crash when he moves into oncoming traffic. Helen Remington (Holly Hunter) is in the other car. Her husband is killed and she finds sexual enjoyment in the crash. James and Helen find compatible erotic needs with car crashes. Vaughan (Elias Koteas) is a like-minded person and introduces them to his group with Gabrielle (Rosanna Arquette) who walks with leg braces.Director David Cronenberg is diving into some sexual perversities here. It is voyeuristic at times, fascinating, different, but also prodding at other times. Sex is not hot as much as it is disturbingly cold. It is definitely weird. I do wonder if there is more to this movie. It's a crazy artifact of cinema.