The novel depicts the world of mankind so alienated and jaded that communication and emotions are possible only through traumatic experiences, such as a car accident. In the fantasy, semi-abstract world of Ballard and Cronenberg, the vectors of thanatos and eros coincide in a single act of intercourse through man-made technology. Jonathan Rosenbaum notes that in the film, human skin is likened to the glitzy, fetishized surface of cars; the camera slides seamlessly from one to the other.JonathanRosenbaum.com " Blog Archive " Sex Drive [on CRASH]- The "chosen ones", a secret society that reads like a fight club in Palahniuk's novel, perceive vehicles and accidents as a fetish.Comparison of films by D. Cronenberg and D. Fincher, published in the late 1990s, see, in particular, the book: Mark Browning. David Fincher: Films That Scar. . Page 143.
