Crash

Do you find large chunks of metal crashing at a gut-wrenching velocity erotic? Then you are likely to find your kin in David Cronenberg’s meditation upon the erotic bond between metal and flesh, crashed cars and human bodies in traction.During recovery after a serious car accident James hooks up with a woman involved in the accident and together they embark on a downward spiral into the lovely land of staged car crashes, Swedish informational videos, advanced sex and horrendous scaring.Based on James Ballards controversial and violent novel, where wounds caused by automobile accidents is ''the keys to a new sexuality born from a perverse technology.'' Crash takes David Cronenberg’s fascination with the merging of human and machine to new heights. The world of Crash is an empty one, where the characters go to great lengths, wheter it is crashing a car dressed up like Jayne Mansfield, having sex by the roadside or waiting for that one speeding car that just may take your life, just to feel something. But the numbness prevails. MATTIAS VESTIN