Crash (1996)

[mk12]

I watched the first half hour or so and then went to bed as I thought it was really shit.

Seconded. I gave up.

 

[Bernie Gunther]

The movie wasn't nearly as successful an adaptation as "Naked Lunch" say, which I think was outright brilliant. I think Ballard's is the better book though.

It's very good, as is the "Atrocity Exhibition" which I think someone mentioned earlier.

"Sexual fantasies in connection with Ronald Reagan. The genitalia of the Presidential contender exercised a continuing fascination. A series of imaginary genitalia were constructed using (a) the mouth-parts of Jacqueline Kennedy, (b) a Cadillac rear-exhaust vent, (c) the assembly kit prepuce of President Johnson, (d) a child-victim of sexual assault. In 89 percent of the cases, the constructed genitalia generated a high incidence of self-induced orgasm. Tests indicate the masturbatory nature of the Presidential contender's posture. Dolls consisting of plastic models of Reagan's alternate genitalia were found to have a disturbing effect on deprived children."