6/11/2023 0 Comments Crash 1996 UncutThe story, inasmuch as the film has one, involves James and Catherine Ballard (James Spader and Deborah Kara Unger), a seemingly disconnected couple in an open marriage, only able to find an inkling of a spark as they recount their dalliances to each other, otherwise going through the motions with themselves and their extramarital partners. Whereas Ballard’s original novel is told in the first person, a highly subjective wild ride from a self-absorbed protagonist, Cronenberg’s film is told more coldly and objectively, presenting the characters without judgment or backstory, which gives the proceedings an almost hypnotic air. It operates on feel it either draws the viewer in or leaves them at arm’s length, and there’s probably no middle ground to be found. It is a film about characters detached from their own emotions and the reality of their lives, yet one that invites you to have an emotional response and to consider your own world. Like Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, one can list every element that appears on the screen without ever getting to the heart of the matter, or one could just as easily describe the emotions it provokes without saying a word of its story. Ballard’s Crash is just as difficult to describe. ![]() ![]() Long thought to be unfilmable, David Cronenberg’s adaptation of J.G.
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