Crash (Cronenberg)
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- surreal
- bleak
- signature
Heavy, measured, measured drama, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →A car crash victim inexplicably finds himself aroused by car accidents and becomes involved with an underground subculture of like-minded souls.
Our read · Crash (Cronenberg) (1996) reads as a heavy, measured, surreal drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of Crash
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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