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Crash (Ballard novel)

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Crash is a 1996 film directed by David Cronenberg, based on the novel by J.G. Ballard, about a subculture of people who are sexually aroused by car crashes, a peculiar fetish arguably stemming from a pun on "auto-eroticism."

They re-enact famous car crashes (such as those that killed James Dean and Jayne Mansfield), cause accidents themselves and document other crashes. Both MPAA NC-17 and R versions have been produced. It won a special prize at Cannes for daring, audacity, and originality.

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A crash is also a common term for a computer fault that brings down a program or operating system.


A car or other vehicular crash is the act of colliding with something, including another vehicle. See Road Safety