Ultimate pleasure

Hubert 2021-12-22 08:01:27

Car accidents bring death, sex brings pleasure, and the fast feeling of death should be the ultimate pleasure. The breath of death permeated the extreme tension of the car accident. Continuous and endless desire flows in life like blood, and the most direct way to express it is sex. Sex that has surpassed everything, pure sex, what could be closer to the essence than it?
Impact, rupture, and incompleteness cause sharp pain, and death is the ultimate pleasure. Behind crazy sex is the friction between life and death. Automobiles and machines represent human desires, and collisions with each other are the abyss of desires. Western society emphasizes individualism, and the essence of human nature is a beast composed of desires. This film is an exploration of human nature, and it is a flogging of the soul.
Crash has another meaning, called destruction.

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Extended Reading
  • Ford 2022-03-21 09:02:14

    Full marks, cold shock. "Driving" comes from here = = The alienation of lust, which is in the same line with the theme of the director's works in the 1980s

  • Green 2022-04-20 09:01:52

    The automobile itself is a kind of spiritual metaphor after the industrialization of American society. Like the "American Dream", the price of stimulating social activity is digging the gap of human desire. And when this desire is concealed and acquiesced by the steel-like rule structure, the unrestricted desire can only find more dangerous breakthroughs after being numb. At this level, this film is far more than a strange story, after all, "the next time may be more intense".

Crash quotes

  • Vaughan: The car crash is a fertilizing rather than a destructive event.

  • [Last lines]

    James Ballard: Katherine, are you all right?

    Catherine Ballard: James. I don't know.

    James Ballard: Are you Hurt?

    Catherine Ballard: I think I'm all right...

    [James starts groping and kissing her]

    Catherine Ballard: ... I think I'm all right.

    James Ballard: Maybe the next time, darling. Maybe the next time.