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Editorial Review:
Adapted from the controversial novel by J.G. Ballard, Crash will either repel or amaze you, with little or no room for a neutral reaction. The film is perfectly matched to the artistic and intellectual proclivities of director David Cronenberg, who has used the inspiration of Ballard's novel to create what critic Roger Ebert has described as "a dissection of the mechanics of pornography." Filmed with a metallic color scheme and a dominant tone of emotional detachment, the story focuses on a close-knit group of people who have developed a sexual fetish around the collision of automobiles. They use cars as a tool of arousal, in which orgasm is directly connected to death-defying temptations of fate at high speeds. Ballard wrote his book to illustrate the connections between sex and technology--the ultimate postmodern melding of flesh and machine--and Cronenberg takes this theme to the final frontier of sexual expression. Holly Hunter, James Spader, and Deborah Unger are utterly fearless in roles that few actors would dare to play, and their surrender to Cronenberg's vision makes Crash an utterly unique and challenging film experience. It's rated NC-17, so don't say you weren't warned! --Jeff Shannon

Crash [Region 2] Reviews:
Auto-eroticism ... Cronenberg meets Ballard in this inventive but disturbing study of fetishism
2009-12-07 - Cronenberg's inventive and disturbing film about eroticism and automobiles explores the following quasi-syllogism:

Premise 1: Cars are sexy
Premise 2: Sex in cars is exciting (because, I guess, cars are sexy and because of the risk of being seen)
Premise 3: Sex while driving is dangerous and thrilling (because, perhaps, the risk of a crash adds adrenaline to the thrills listed above)
Therefore, car crashes are the ultimate aphrodisiac.

I think the premises are at least pretty plausible, though I can't say I have the experience to back up this intuition, but even so I have a hard time finding the conclusion convincing. Still, the logical leap is what you expect from Cronenberg, who always manages to stimulate the intellect through a combination of visceral thrills and wild speculation. Sex is never, in fact, natural with us. By the time we come of age sexually, we have already established a host of associations that shape our longings and our sense of what is permissible and forbidden. Cronenberg's film is an almost clinically detached exploration of a situation that transforms erotic drives, through near-death experiences and the fetishization of automobiles and accidents.

James Ballard (James Spader) is a television director who lacks passion for his work, and tries to make up for it by sharing stories of sexual encounters with his equally apathetic wife. Driving home distracted, he plows through the highway meridian and into the oncoming lane of traffic and a head-on collision. A view of the exposed breast of the other driver (Holly Hunter) associates the accident with arousal, and the story, based on J.G. Ballard's controversial classic, pursues this association to its extreme. It's a bold and dangerous film, and even if it pushes the story into implausible extremes, it raises challenging questions along the way about what we are and how technology shapes our bodies and transforms desires. Not an easy film to enjoy, so it can't be recommended for everyone, but it remains essential viewing for an appreciation of Cronenberg's challenging conception of the "new flesh," explored and developed in a number of equally groundbreaking and disturbing films.

All of Cronenberg`s work is fantastic!
2009-06-04 - after seeing this film the first time....WOW !! I Thought to myself who is this Cronenberg guy ? Since seeing all of his films, he is by far my favorite film maker his ideas are off the wall , that`s what`s so good about all of his films. This film Crash is my favorite film + his other work is great !!!!

Absolutely One of The Most Disturbing Movies EVER!
2009-02-05 - First, I love James Spader and Holly Hunter as actors; but this is one of the most mentally disturbing movies I've EVER watched. Moreover, WHAT would posses ANYONE to want to make such a movie? There are absolutely NO social or other redeeming qualities about it! Period. End of Dicsussion!

always excellent
2008-08-11 - I am always pleased with the efficiency of Amazon to deliver a product in a timely manner. Have never had a complaint.

Brilliant. a shame the title was stolen for such a trivial "Oscar Movie"
2008-06-16 - If you are offended by this film, I guess you're the kind to be offended by my writing (myspace.com/themercyclock) as I was told by a "mentor for a week" contrived-sell-out-writer Jonthan Maberry told me he did not want his name associated with my new novel "The Mercy Clock" but it's films like this that someone could write a review about but it's not what it's about... in the sense that the screenplay for this is not the story, the story is between the lines... the story we watch in this is just there to use as a tool to portray something else that's brilliant... what it really is about, and if you don't get it, you're not supposed to, You're probably the kind that would get scared more easily by Stephen King's new work than Bret Eaton Ellis' last. I hate to say things like film and literature are "important" because all they are are words and images... we don't feel them as they don't feel... are reaction to it is what feels, but if I were to say a film is important this would be one of them.