Mazo de Muchas Cosas

I watched a movie recently called Crash by director David Cronenberg, the director of one of my favorite movies of all time, eXistenZ . Incidentally, there is another, more recent film, also called Crash , different director though: Paul Haggis. Both movies not only have the same title, they tackle the same subject matter, which is human connection. Actual crashes Cronenberg’s Crash deals with the subject in a more literal way, the characters actually car crash into each other in order to create intimacy. In Haggis’s Crash we also have a couple of actual car crashes, the movie starts and ends with a car accident that forces different characters to connect with one another. At the very beginning, Graham tells us that “we crash into each other so that we can feel something”.  However, the rest of the movie deals with more metaphorical crashes of human connection. Metaphorical crashes For a crash to happen, metaphorical or otherwise, two people have to bump into ea...