CRASH,DAVID CRONENBERG FILM,PART 7

Published on: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:56:19 -0700

Directed by DAVID CRONENBERG, this brutal, horrifying film is based on the 1973 novel by J. G. Ballard. James and Catherine Ballard (played by JAMES SPADER and DEBORA KARA UNGER)are a married couple whose sex life has been reduced to recounting tales of mutual infidelity to turn each other on. One night, James causes a head-on collision with a car carrying Dr. Helen Remington (HOLLY HUNTER), killing her husband and severely injuring her and himself. Subsequent encounters with each other find that she is oddly sexually aroused by the danger of car accidents and potential accidents, and, he soon falls in with a cult of car-crash fetishists and invites his wife to join in with them. The group is led by Vaughan (ELIAS KOTEAS), a former scientist twisted by his own disfigurement in an accident and, as a result, a man obsessed with car crashes as a liberation of sexual energy. Vaughan inducts the Ballards and Dr. Remington into his surreal world of sex in the back seats of cars, re-enactments of famous car crashes such as James Dean and Jayne Mansfield, viewing photos of accident victims, screenings of collision videos as a kind of pornography, and fender benders as mating rituals. These encounters turn soon into a rollercoaster of madness, violence and death, in this highly acclaimed movie that won the Golden Palm in the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.

Author: aryluizjr
Keywords: david cronenberg perversity cruelty homosexualism car wrecks suicidal erotic bizarre degradation stilysh noir adultery
Added: June 19, 2008