SIN CITY
Well, Just got in from the film, and I must first admit I knew only a fraction about it going in.
I knew that it was based off a Frank Miller's graphic novel. I had seen some of the Batman stuff he had done a long while ago, so I had an idea of what to expect. Sort of.
I knew it was in black in white.
And I knew that Kevin Smith call's it today's "Pulp Fiction" and in a way he is right, it's more pulp fiction than Pulp Fiction was.
For those of you who disdain graphic novels, perhaps you should stop reading my geekdom blogs, for the rest of you... well, Sin City is... awesome.
Surreal would perhaps be a better word.
Beautiful.
Imagined.
Horrifically violent.
Funny.
Yeah those words sum it up nicely.
The images, characters and situations are just outside of reality.
The film itself is black and white with snatches of color.
Brilliant color.
Brilliant black and white.
The characters are impossible both in their endurance and inhumanity.
One thing to note, this film isn't straight forward on plot, it's several stories involving the denizen and the locales of this place, smacking a little of the way Tarantino likes to arrange his movies.
Characters do show up in other tales, but the overall glue keeping the stories emboldened to one another is the Rourke family, and hookers.
They are a family of corrupt, powerful, and incredibly depraved individuals that have a lot of sway in Sin City.
The hookers, are well, hookers.
Beautiful, vivacious, sultry, incredibly frightening and dangerous.
They run their own business and are not women to be trifled with.
One of the stories moves away from the aRourke family and just deals with them, and their sense of justice, and the fragility of the world they live in.
The anti-hero's are men who murder and torture all in the name of justice.
Some of them are insane; Micky Rourke's character Marv, for instance.
Some of them are noble; like Bruce Willis' Hartigan.
The presentation of the violence is incredibly surreal and pulled out of reality.
The horror of the situtations only really strikes you if you think about it.
Fortunantly the movie itself doesn't give you the time to do that.
Sin City delivers incredible visiuals, and some good performances, but the dialogue at times is stilted and at times incredibly cliched.
Which, for me, only added to the wholeness of the film.
Personally, if this is the new film nior, I'm hooked.
I've always been a big fan of the genre, but i've not seen a film like this one, at least presented in this way.
I urge you to go out and see it: if you're a fan of graphic novels, well it's like one come to life, if your a fan of beautiful cinema, well this one delivers.
Be forewarned though it has insanely depraved violence; A couple walked out in the scene revealing a meat locker with trophies on the wall that were all too grisly.
Thoug watching Frodo (Elijah Wood as Kevin) get chopped up then eaten by a dog was well worth the money I paid for the movie.
(Who's the ring bearer now bitch?!)
posted by F.G. Shaw @ 2:39 AM
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