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SICK AND TWISTED CRONENBERG!!
THIS IS A SICK AND TWISTED MOVIE! IT IS VERY WEIRD!
THE PERFORMANCES ARE GREAT! THIS IS VINTAGE MATERIAL FROM DIRECTOR DAVID CRONENBERG!!

A truly great film, Cronenberg's greatest...
Creepy, visceral, disturbing, brilliant. And audacious, daring, and original (in fact, it won a special jury prize at Cannes for this). This is an amazing film, one that you cannot dismiss as just vile trash (even though many have). It was a film made in a time (1996, to be exact) when showing any kind of nudity on the screen was severely frowned upon, unless it was a joke. This film went all out in its nudity, showing male and female nudity. And, of course, the context in which it was shown in shocked and dismayed many. People aroused by car crashes. Does it happen in real life? I have never found mangled steel and flesh sexy, but some probably do. The pace of the film is slow and dreamlike, and it has an incredible atmosphere to it all. The film was nearly banned in Britain, and was dumped on the American market and died immediately. This is a work of art. I think it's Cronenberg's best film. I can watch it over and over again. David should be commended for making such a brilliant and daring film, and for not sugarcoating it or making any attempt to make it light and funny for the masses.

Odd & Hypnotic
David Cronenberg is a great director, because he's not afraid to do what he wants. He's not afraid to portray what he wants to onscreen, which is evident both with this film and a movie like "A History of Violence." Despite this, however, he's incredibly overhyped. This movie is known, if known at all, for it's sex scenes. But they're actually quite tame, in a lot of them you don't even see nudity. Anyway, this movie is destined to be forever confused with the 2005 Best Picture winner; Which I guess is a good thing, because that movie is better...But, here we have a very interesting movie. James Spader (Sex, Lies, & Videotape) plays James Ballard, a film producer who's in a very bland marriage that seems to consist of nothing but sex. Both him and his wife Catherine (Deborah Unger, "Thirteen") both cheat on each other, which we learn in the first few moments of the film. Then one day, James gets in a car accident. It's a bad one...One of the passengers in the other car dies, but James survives and so does the driver of the other car Dr. Helen Remington (Holly Hunter, "Thirteen"). While in the hospital, James meets Vaughan (Elias Koteas) who harbors an obsession for car crashes. When James gets out, he begins to be obsessed and begins to research the erotisism of car crashes...Which leads to more sex scenes, not all of which are heterosexual I might add. Rosanna Arquette ("Pulp Fiction") co-stars as another sex-crazed crash victim. Anyway, I've read reviews where people were complaining that there is no link between sex and car crashes. And I'm pretty damn sure there isn't. What I think is stupid, is when you hear people whining about that but you never read a review for a movie like "Spiderman" where a reviewer says
there's no way a man could be genetically altered by a spider to a point where he can shoot webs from his wrists. This is fictional, but it is pretty interesting. The problem is, the movie starts with a plot and starts getting muddled towards the end. It gives way to beauty, rather than plot...But this gives it a hypnotic feel. The final seconds of the movie are very beautiful and even kind of creepy. The movie won the Special Jury Prize for Originality, Daring, and Audacity at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. It deserved it.
GRADE: B

PS,
This review is for the NC-17 rated version of the film. I have not watched the R-rated version.

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