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Crash feat. Edward Ongweso Jr.

Added 2023-06-19 04:00:55 +0000 UTC

Writer and co-host of This Machine Kills Podcast Edward Ongweso Jr. joins us to discuss David Cronenberg's 'Crash'. It's inarguably one of the prolific director's finest films and one of the best of the decade more broadly.

We discuss the film's eroticism and the ways its depictions of sex also explore the conditions, afflictions, and casualties of post-modern existence. We also dig into the film's reception upon release at Cannes, and how jury president Francis Ford Coppola was so incensed by the film that he attempted to filibuster a vote for the Grand Jury Prize. Finally, we talk about sexuality in current mainstream cinema and how elements of the 21st century blockbuster have come to represent vestiges of Cronenberg's visions of humanity's strange future.

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