Re-doing James Dean's fatal accident is historical passion, and also, of course, cinephilia. The film is offensive to many, largely, I think, because termination is held off. That Vertigo can now be seen on a large screen as a companion piece is a wonderful irony. Both films are about the exquisite torture of sight, though the world Ballard witnesses in Crash is one in which, rather than seeing again what they have loved before, people wish insatiably to invent new sights. Bodies and automobiles, metal and flesh, are seen and hungered for by lenses and eyes.
Action is nothing in the face of the desire for action, and the desire for action is exhausting.
The David Cronenberg Home Page from the U.K., including filmography, reviews, photos, links.