Sin City - 24/08/2014
"After a while all I am doing is punching wet chips of bone into the floorboards. So I stop"
In 2005, Frank Miller and Rob Rodrigeuz introduced us to Basin City, a neo-noir, comic city with awesome characters and stories to tell. With the launch of Sin City 2 in cinemas, our local World of Cine offered a double bill showing so we could recap after the 9 year wait.
Sin City really holds up, with its stylised, comic book feel. Four tales of corruption and crime centred around Marv, a muscular man machine looking for vengeance after his love is killed in his arms, Dwight and the hookers of Basin City against corrupt cops, Hartigan protecting little Nancy from a diformed pedophile and a hitman looking to make a little extra cash.
I have recently watched a fair few original noir films such as The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity and Shadow of Doubt to name a few whilst watching the IMDB top 250 films, and have become very fond of the genre.
Marv is definitely my favourite character and I love the way it is narrated by each protagonist in the Film Noir style. Each story is gripping and interesting, and every I felt something towards every character on screen. The ladies really hold their own in this, with Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson and Britany Murphy to name a few. The bad guys are bad and the good guys bad too.
Visually, the film is just gorgeous to watch, brutally violent but with no blood, dashes on colour on a black and white background, and comic book style settings.
I originally saw Sin City when it came out 9 years ago, so it was great to see it on the big screen, catching up on the story lines again and prepping me ready for another journey to Basin City
If you haven't seen this film, I really recommend it
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