![]() Controversial from the moment it premiered at Cannes-where it won a Special Jury Prize “for originality, for daring, and for audacity”- Crash has since taken its place as a key text of late-twentieth-century cinema, a disturbingly seductive treatise on the relationships between humanity and technology, sex and violence, that is as unsettling as it is mesmerizing. A traffic collision involving a disaffected commercial producer, James (James Spader), and an enigmatic doctor, Helen (Holly Hunter), brings them, along with James’s wife, Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger, in a sublimely detached performance), together in a crucible of blood and broken glass-and it’s not long before they are all initiated into a kinky, death-obsessed underworld of sadomasochistic car-crash fetishists for whom twisted metal and scar tissue are the ultimate turn-ons. Ballard’s future-shock novel of the 1970s into one of the most singular and provocative films of the 1990s. Since a road accident left him with serious facial and bodily scarring, a former TV scientist has become obsessed by the marriage of motor-car technology with what he sees as the raw sexuality of car-crash victims. ![]() ![]() Al comienzo de la pelcula se puede ver a la pareja cometiendo infidelidades y comentndolas entre ellos ms. For this icily erotic fusion of flesh and machine, David Cronenberg adapted J. James Spader, David Cronenberg, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas. James Ballard ( James Spader ), un productor de cine y ejecutivo publicitario, mantiene una relacin poco habitual con su esposa, Catherine ( Deborah Kara Unger ), y por ello buscan nuevas formas de expresar su amor sexual.
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