Because movies dont merely document sexual and romantic fantasies, they uncover them.

Erotica is, again, profoundly subjective.

Some maybe a bit frightening.

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Others seeded with risk, regret, melancholy, or irrepressible humanity.

But all of them are more than a little bit hot.

Crash (1996)

The only enduring shortcoming ofDavid Cronenbergs adaptation of thisJ.G.

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