Ontología del impacto: una historia del futuro en Crash (David Cronenberg, 1996)

In 1996, David Cronenberg released the adaptation of Crash, a novel by J. G. Ballard published in 1973. The film portrayed a cold and dystopian universe where affections were replaced by injuries and caused car accidents. The purpose of the article is to analyze how the director adapts Ballard's moral approaches through narrative procedures that try to translate into images the ominous world imagined in the novel and what is the effect of certain creative decisions adopted in the film. It is also intended to analyze how this dystopian future responds to the tradition of a subgenre that, in its most critical variants, has always behaved as a thermometer of our social concerns and a warning about our inalienable future.