Yes, the concept is disturbing, as it was to Ballard AND Cronenberg but the book's prose and control is elegance personified and Cronenberg's movie is so calculated, distanced yet masterfully directed that you can't help being drawn in. Be scared and still be hypnotised by CRASH!
I love Kermode's old documentaries.. ive got the alien and bladerunner ones tucked away somewhere.. what a high-concept film Crash was. He was really going hard for that pompadour-rockabilly/Mike Ness look back then huh?
Fancy seeing you here! Crash was a highly underrated film! By the way an old roommate slept with Mike Ness after a Social Distortion show in NOLA back in the day lol
And even as a straight guy, he has no problem whatsoever on a personal level with depictions of male on male sexuality in cinema. Also, no offense of course to anyone but just to inform, in movies, the aforementioned above material might simply be not to everyone's taste and not everyone's cup of tea. Or does Mark Kermode assume also that, no matter one's orientation and also preferences or lack thereof of certain material in cinema, no intelligent adult much less a film critic should have ANY problems with it, even if say they are also not particular connoisseurs and collectors of ahem ahem such porn material too. 😀
Yes, the concept is disturbing, as it was to Ballard AND Cronenberg but the book's prose and control is elegance personified and Cronenberg's movie is so calculated, distanced yet masterfully directed that you can't help being drawn in. Be scared and still be hypnotised by CRASH!
Beautiful comment! I wholeheartedly agree
I love Kermode's old documentaries.. ive got the alien and bladerunner ones tucked away somewhere.. what a high-concept film Crash was. He was really going hard for that pompadour-rockabilly/Mike Ness look back then huh?
Fancy seeing you here! Crash was a highly underrated film! By the way an old roommate slept with Mike Ness after a Social Distortion show in NOLA back in the day lol
@@eamonwright7488 hahahahaha ;)
What was the very last phrase said by Kermode in this - "who simply refuses to put art? Or cut art?"
Yeah, Mark Kermode really is a very open minded and far from conservative film critic and reviewer. 😀
And even as a straight guy, he has no problem whatsoever on a personal level with depictions of male on male sexuality in cinema.
Also, no offense of course to anyone but just to inform, in movies, the aforementioned above material might simply be not to everyone's taste and not everyone's cup of tea.
Or does Mark Kermode assume also that, no matter one's orientation and also preferences or lack thereof of certain material in cinema, no intelligent adult much less a film critic should have ANY problems with it, even if say they are also not particular connoisseurs and collectors of ahem ahem such porn material too. 😀