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| "Crash" Cast l-r James Spader, Holly Hunter, Debra Kara Unger Rosanna Arquette & Elias Koteas |
Vaughan: "The car crash is a fertilizing rather than a destructive event."
This quote from Vaughan played by Elias Koteas in David Croneneberg's Crash is pretty much the perfect summation of the film. I feel we need to have a Hump Day & Chill in honor of this masterpiece of cinema right here, right now.
Crash was a lighning rod of controversy so much so that Ted Turner who owned Fine Line Pictures at the time tried to block the studio from releasing it.
It won a Special Jury Award at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival for originiality, daring and audacity. That gives a pretty good barometer of what you can expect from this NC-17 rated film for those of you who haven't seen it.
What's that, you want more 411? Well here you go:
"Crash" is about the strange lure of the auto collision, provoking as it does the human fascination with death and the tendency to eroticize danger. Most motorists will slow down to stare at the scene of a collision; they may feel their pulses quickening and become aware of the fragility of their own bodies. The characters of "Crash" carry this awareness a step further, cherishing and nurturing it. For them, a car collision is a sexual turn-on, and a jolting life force they come to crave.
This film deserves to be honored with a Hump Day & Chill and that's exactly what I'm going to do, join me, or not...
Crash on Wikipedia -
