Film adaptation of Frank Miller's "Sin City" graphic novel series.
From the opening scene we know these two things:
1 - This is film-noir meets graphic novel
2 - (Ba)Sin City is a heartless place.
The film is full of gratuitous nudity, revenge hungry anti-heroes, "thugs with delusions of eloquence", lust, inner-monologues, classic Rodriguez over-the-top violence, dark humor, and oddly enough, castration of some sort.
This film doesn't follow the standard linear plot line you all grew up to know and love. Instead we watch 3 main stories unfold, and understand the entity that is "Sin City". In each story we have reoccurring characters, locations, and scenery. At some points in the film you have this feeling that everything will come crashing down on each other, but it doesn't. Now, whether this was a deliberate decision to split the entire story between this and the 2 future films to come or not, we don't know. Regardless, it is a fun ride.
This film is a great example of neo-noir; With all the violence, beautiful women, color schemes, set designs (cough cough cgi), and of course my favorite, the anti-hero. Needless to say Rodriguez and Miller left their own touch to the possible genre-film. This is probably the best adaptation of a graphic novel to film I have seen.
I would like to touch upon one scene in particular, [Spoilers Ahead] the scene that Tarantino directed. This is the scene where Dwight is taking Jackie Boy, and his thugs, to The Pit to dispose of them before the cops show up to Old Town. This surreal and colorful scene, is by far, my favorite of the entire film. Surrealism is all about visual metaphors, and this is captured beautifully. With the grayscale scheme having flashing soft colors run through the screen, you cannot help but smile. Dwight is second doubting himself, and what he is doing, and Jackie Boy can't keep his dead mouth shut about it. [Spoilers Done]
This is one of my favorite films, while I can only watch it once every couple of years. Just go out and buy this, really, it's worth it. Here's a random quote I couldn't fit any where else: "Hell's wakin' up every goddamn day and not knowin' why you're here".
4 out of 5 bullets
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