Behind the solid color violence

Summer 2021-10-19 09:47:32

Watching "Sin City", I couldn't turn my eyes away, and even forgot to light a cigarette.
How to describe this movie? A visual feast of pure colors or a glorious appreciation of violence?

The gentle demon Keven smiled unchangingly, even after his limbs were mutilated, he still had that numb expression, and even if he was bitten by a mad dog, he still had that cold look in his eyes. With vertical rain lines and white blood, Sin City's killing is so common, wanton and low.
If the bishops, houses, and policemen who should be defenders of justice become gangsters, then prostitutes with better faces and hot bodies will have to hysterically use submachine guns to defend their own interests. The so-called heroes, they do their best to uphold justice, based not on the law, but on moral judgments similar to instinct. The brave man died in the end. What is the end of waiting for the weak? The barmaid can only be beaten on her jaw by the police hero.

The ugly Marv kills for the only woman in his life who loves her; Dwight fights to protect the one he loves; Hartigan even shoots his head in the head to keep his beloved woman alive. These practices lack feasibility and credibility in the real society. However, in an unreal society, the behavior of protecting one's loved ones in an unreal way presents the only brilliance of humanity in this world. There is no principle, no need to save all mankind, for the sake of love, simple and powerful.

I am a person who does not understand love, so I feel the power of this movie.

This is a movie destined to belong to a few people, no matter how many people have seen it.

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Sin City quotes

  • Yellow Bastard: Do you think I'm tired? You think I'm getting tired? You're the one who's gonna crack! You'll crack! You'll cry and beg! You'll Scream! Oh, yeah, you'll scream, you big, fat, ugly cow! You'll scream!

    [leans in closer]

    Yellow Bastard: You thinking the whip was the worse I could do? That was foreplay.

    Nancy Callahan: Hartigan was right about you. You can't get it up unless I scream. You're pathetic! You're pathetic.

    Yellow Bastard: It's not wise at all to make fun of me like that. It brings out the worst in me.

    [raises knife]

  • Shellie: I've done some dumb things.

    Dwight: Seeing as how I'm one of those dumb things, I can't give you too hard a time on that, Shellie.