The film is mainly composed of three interspersed stories-the first stripper Nancy, who has lost her lover, is eager for revenge. Gouguan’s father proved his abilities, and he lost his life. The story of the fierce man with a tiger in his heart, Dwight, was mentioned in the anti-time axis. Four years ago, his love for the old lover Ava made him fall into the femme fatale. The trap created; Marv, the first tough guy who has been executed, has strangely seen uneven roads in each story, becoming the only character throughout.
As far as the style and effect of the film are concerned, "Sin 2" completely inherits the exaggerated tone of the first black-and-white electronic music. The gloomy and cold background, exaggerated and intense plot, crazy and vivid characters, and sharp and profound monologues are beyond common sense, but they give people an unexpected sense of reality. The cold picture composed of black, white and gray is often broken by the red lips of beautiful women and the blood of strong men, which has a strong visual impact. Although the various interpretations are not as earth-shattering as the first one, the violent pornography is still powerful, and Frank Miller's violent aesthetics is perfectly presented in front of the big screen, which can be described as a visual feast.
In addition, the cast of the film is as strong and eye-catching as "Sin 1", and the personalities of many handsome men and women have also subverted the image. The most noteworthy is Eva Green, who plays the shrewd, greedy, crazy cold-blooded femme fatale. She is also the most acclaimed and most valuable element in the entire production. A pair of ecstatic blue eyes is straightforward, and a few nudes are more charming. With the development of the plot, the audience is captured by Dwight like Dwight, and has complicated psychological twists and turns, and loves and hates the part of Ava. The eye-catching presence of Eva Green has raised the status of the female character in the film to an unprecedented height; but at the same time, this non-top-brand villain also makes other female characters buried in the style of the film itself. In particular, Jessica Alba, who occupies a central position in various posters, was clearly squeezed from the position of heroine. Nancy's role itself has a link between the past and the next, and she should be the first positive protagonist as her part. Unfortunately, under the double attack of Eva Green's light and unsophisticated plot, Alba can only prove to the world by his stunning dance before the final revenge that his acting skills are valuable and the maintenance price is higher-even after 9 years, the figure of a baby is still impressive. Spurting blood.
Many other supporting roles are also very brilliant. Among them, although Ray Liotta and Juno Temple appeared in the vignettes, although there are few scenes, their subversive performances are impressive; Lady Gaga, who has a brief interaction with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, performs freely, making people forget their crazy nature for a short while and personally. Refute the fact that a lot of prostitutes are still strong under the leadership of the prostitute head played by Rosario Dawson; the fatal little Miho is replaced by a mixed-race girl to the popular Korean actor Jamie Chung in recent years, although there is less cute contrast. , Facial paralysis insisted to get very well in place.
However, Eva Green's stand-alone drama and numerous supporting roles are not beneficial to the film as a whole, but internally reflects the lack of characterization in the film. First, the film lacks the strong male charm of "Sin 1". A femme fatale who only occupies one-third of the role can not create the expected heavy feeling of vicissitudes, but the male protagonists who seem to be dead-end are intentionally or unintentionally reduced to matchmaking. For example, the return character Marv is less cold and more humorous than the previous one, and is a non-mainstream hero with full personality. It's a pity that although there are many scenes in this film, there is not enough story to support the weight of the character. From start to finish, a bottle of soy sauce is beaten like a good guy. Dwight changed from Clive Owen to an older Josh Brolin. Although his image was vigorous, he lacked depth and firmness. Fortunately, he got a plastic surgery in the film. The superb Johnny's arrogant tragic character is sympathetic, but its existence is ultimately suspicious. The whole story is also very abruptly overriding the plot due to the lack of interaction with other characters. At the same time, the characters in this film are not as adventurous as the first one, so the lethality is insufficient. There is no perverted yellow bastard, no terrible cannibal boy, all characters can exist in reality. The bloody violence is not enough for the first one. It loses the countless crazy possibilities that the comics can create innately...
In addition to the unsatisfactory characters, another controversial point is that the movie does not divide the various stories into different sub-parts, but connects them. As a whole. This change has higher requirements for the concept of the script, and if it is done properly, it will make the audience have a more overall sense of watching the movie. It is a pity that the three main stories of the film composed of five comics have the same weight and are not adjusted, so that not only many auxiliary characters are obliterated in the seeming but nonexistent main line, but none of the three main lines can dominate the overall situation. This seems to be an attempt to wear jewels of different textures and colors together to create an invincible necklace. Although extremely dazzling, the overall senses are scattered and lack the main core. Therefore, without the coat of comics, the vague and messy narrative in the center of the film can hardly support a story independently. On the contrary, "Sin 1" is very clever to cut the film into four distinctive chapters in a comic manner. Although short but each is wonderful, at the same time interspersed with each other and the context is clear, so that the overall feeling of the film has not been completely broken.
On the whole, although it can’t stand the analysis, the style and technique are definitely not shocking today when digital visual effects are rampant and the themes are unconventional. "Sin City 2" is a movie that continues our love of the previous work in many ways. Works in good faith. For viewers who love black crime movies, it shouldn't be a problem to make up for 9 years of regret with this film. It's a pity that such themes of movies have to become associated with domestic cinema chains, but I don't know how long it will be...
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