Sin City consists of three unrelated stories: Hartigan's half-life journey, Marv's lonely revenge, and Dwight's urban adventures. The three men with completely different personalities all have a brute force that is not afraid of death and a deeply loved woman. The three stories all take place in this depraved, ruined, drunken sin city. The links between them are only a few irrelevant NPC characters: Nancy, who grew up in the blues story, is the dancer in the bar, and the waitress in the bar is Owen. The key character at the beginning of the story, Kevin, who was killed by Marv in the first story, appears in the latter part of the two-part blues story, and the only scene repeated in the film-Nancy dancing in the bar It also connects the first and third stories in time and place. So the whole story applies the story structure of "Low Speed Novel" 1-2-3-1, and then uses the killer boy who appears at the beginning and the end of the film to draw a perfect circle for the film.
The film uses black and white, no, there are actually red, yellow, and green that are rendered to the extreme. Whether it's the blood-red sky, golden monsters, or the beautiful eyes of emerald green, in the pure color world of black, gray and white, they all look even more powerful. In addition to being able to fully fit the two-color world of the original comics, there are several advantages to doing so-without losing the visual impact, it moderately reduces the negative effects of violence and blood for the audience, and even makes some bloody shots appear to be equivalent. humor. Despite this, the bloody index of the film is still heinous, blood is splattered, limbs and heads are flying randomly. The film seems to ignore the legitimate and popular violent aesthetics, deliberately raise the boundaries, and use purer visual and psychological illusions to render evil. Comic violence in the city.
Monologue, as another feature of the film, is not common in other comic movies. The more or less monologues of the three protagonists—the low and gloomy voices, which show the audience's character and roles, coincide with the dark, cold and instant fanatic background of the film. Among them, Marv has the most monologues, which is consistent with his lonely character in the Fallen City; Dwight has the least monologues, which happens to be his cold sign. Performance has always been one of the most important aspects of the film, and the characters in Sin City seem to be created alone. Especially Marv played by Mickey Locke, this big face that can compete with Ron Perlman as Hellboy finally made a different appearance on April Fool's Day in 2005; Bruce Willis is still the same old cop, much more Old and helpless, even with a tragic ending; Irving, who just won the golden ball for best supporting actor, is alone; Elijah Wood's ogre is also impressive. Given the length of the relationship, other female characters in SM outfits are Leave it to others to comment.
Someone must accuse the film of low moral content. In addition to meaningless images and lack of connotation of the storyline, the film does not seem to say anything, advocating violence? We must know that even Spider-Man also tells us meaningfully: the world needs heroes, and heroes also need faith. There are almost no heroes in "Sin City". Mickey Locke lives and dies for a prostitute, Bruce Willis shoots himself in the head for the girl he loves-the film is almost completely separated from the real world with the most basic character feelings (even sensuality) to maintain Subjective justice is undesirable in the moral outlook of the real world. For such a movie that is completely faithful to the original, such objections are nothing more than pedantic rhetoric who still don't understand what the comics are. Comics are not preaching, so the question is not what you learned after reading it, but what you “enjoyed”? Shown on the screen are super cool shapes, exaggerated expressions and motion pictures similar to movies and TV, which are filled with the imagination of readers. What's more, a cult comic like this is not a hysterical violent roar like punk music, nor is it like a mockery of reality in the imaginary world in absurd literature. Sin City can be described as a perfect performance at this point-completely faithful to the original comic style, the frame of the picture is placed on the screen as it is, supplemented with excellent special effects and background music, and the performance of violence has been intensified to satisfy the natural madness of humanity. How can comic lovers not be ecstatic?
Comics, violence, and word of mouth are the reasons why this film can capture a large number of audiences on Hollywood’s April Fool’s Day weekend. Of course, colors, performances, and monologues can also be counted as non-first ring structures. This film is different from any previous ones. What makes a comic movie brilliant. The color application in post-production alone is enough to record director Robert Rodriguez in the annals of film history. Also, don't forget, Quentin, who is ubiquitous, also directed a short series of shots in Sin City this time. So it is not difficult to explain why many people associate this film with Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill.
Vertically falling raindrops and rapidly rising virtual footage turned the entire night city into a few blood-red letters of "Sin City". The capital of loneliness, confusion, love and primitive desire, it uses violent film language and unique image methods to tell us that this may be a nearly perfect film between cult and entertainment in 2005.
