10 Movie Endings You Can Only Work Out For Yourself

David Cronenberg's Crash is a fascinatingly twisted erotic thriller about a group of individuals who are sexually aroused by car crashes.

Following a brutal car accident, protagonist James Ballard (James Spader) enters this strange subculture, where those who partake in fetishising car crashes often end up killing themselves in accidents.

At the end, James and his wife Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger) embark on a consensual vehicular chase with one another on the freeway, with Catherine unbuckling her seat belt and being rammed violently off the road by her husband.

However, James finds that Catherine is largely unharmed, and as the pair begin having sex on the ground, he tells her, "Maybe the next one."

There are certainly conclusions which can be drawn from this ending, most notably that James may be referring to death being the only realistic outcome of their fetish - a fate which befalls several other car crash fetishists in the film - and that it just might come to fruition next time.

It's worth mentioning, however, that Catherine utters this same line near the start of the film when James openly discusses an unsatisfying extramarital sexual encounter he had.

It's certainly possible that Cronenberg's film is simply speaking more broadly about the unending pursuit of an unattainable, ultimate pleasure which continues to elude the pair.

Or better yet, James and Catherine's interactions throughout this scene are oddly more tender and loving than any leading up to it, suggesting their plunge into this extreme fetish has brought them closer together.

It's possible Cronenberg intended audiences to pick up on all of this, and yet he leaves it ambiguous enough for viewers to decide for themselves.