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Helen, the driver's passenger (played by Holly Hunter), looks across the cars to James and, in a spastic fit rips off her seatbelt, breaks open her jacket to expose her breast.

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James is involved in a horrific car accident, the driver of the other vehicle shooting through the windshield and coming to rest in James's own car. Shortly after during their own coupling, they discuss their adulteries with a clinical detachment that echoes the feel of much of the film. The film opens with the infidelities of James Ballard ( interesting how the two major literary works Cronenberg's adapted himself have protagonists sharing the name of the real-life authors) and his wife Catherine, each thrilled more by the risk of being caught in the act than the act itself.

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Deliberately paced so as to make the viewer feel like one of the millions of rubberneckers at the scene of an accident, Crash methodically explores these themes with scenes of brutal intensity, held together with lines of dialog that gleam like the lines on a new car, matched by a fantastic score (courtesy of longtime collaborator Howard Shore) that sounds constructed of angles and degrees alien to to conventional movie soundtracks yet perfectly captures the underlying pressure of each scene. Ballard, Cronenberg fashions a cold, precise look at the lengths to which we go to satisfy our desires, how we are enslaved by our fetishes, and how these cravings and desires ultimately affect the way we see each other and the world around us. Adapting the notorious 1973 novel of the same name by J.G.

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Butterfly (1993), and the aforementioned Naked Lunch and Dead Ringers, all to varying degrees show Cronenberg shifting away from straight genre, where his ideas could more easily be expressed, and into a more realistic universe where the trick becomes harder but, because he's working in a world we readily recognize, more effective.Ĭrash (1996) marks to my mind the flag in the ground, the point where Cronenberg successfully marries his vision into a narrative free from the conventions of genre that pigeonholed him as a director of 'body horror' or science fiction.

The films in this transitional period like Spider (2003), M. That leaves a pretty substantial gap that, taken as a whole, shows a director bravely modifying his style, searching for new ways to express his obsessions and over-arching themes: the transformation of the physical body both as a response to and as a reflection of the mind, the nature and question of identity, and the fascination with the grotesque and the forbidden. 1998's eXistenZ has been getting a fair amount of play lately, perhaps due to the renewed argument of video games as art, but generally speaking when it comes to David Cronenberg there's talk a-plenty about his early work and almost as much about his most recent output. Poke around a bit and you'll find a few places like Criterion extolling the virtues of Dead Ringers (1988) and Naked Lunch (1991), which (rightly) have their devoted followings. polished neo-noirish look.Discussion around the films of David Cronenberg typically fall into two categories: the early 'body horror'/SF films, up to and including his brilliant 1986 re-imagining of The Fly, and the late 2000s resurgence into the mainstream, marked by 2005's A History of Violence and 2007's Eastern Promises. Peter Suschitzky’s cinematography is impeccable, giving it a fine, sleek.

Holly Hunter, Deborah Unger, Rosanna Arquette and Elias Koteas also star. James Spader is very good indeed as the bored Canadian husband who tries to keep his marriage alive in the heat of car wrecks. It does disturb and provoke, but it doesn’t really entertain at all. As a dark journey into the human psyche, Cronenberg’s beautifully crafted, good-looking, careful and intelligent film kind of works, but only just – and not really at all as a chiller. T he right-wing forces of censorship in politics and the media in the UK tried to have Crash banned outright for causing death on the roads – though in the end it was passed uncut by the understandably nervous film censors.Ĭronenberg plays with the audience’s heads and sensibilities in kind of shockingly dark cerebral chiller. Writer-director David Cronenberg’s uniquely disturbing 1996 film of J G Ballard’s probably unfilmable parable novel about people into road crashes for sexual kicks caused a furore in Britain. Crash *** (1996, James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas) – Classic Movie Review 1748