Springtime for Hitler

Rating: 1/10 (5 April 2005)

The trailer to this film advertises falsely. "Sin City" is unrelieved sadism. I find it hard to understand that some moviegoers will protest "bad messages" in a film like "Million Dollar Baby," but no one, not NPR, or the Onion, or any respectable media reviewer, seems to find any problem in watching people with their limbs sawn off eaten by dogs.
I stupidly sat through the film waiting for it to change or for some kind of pay off in irony, insight, or intrigue. It never came. Instead, I felt a lot like the characters tortured to death in slow, pornographic splendor.
I hate to draw conclusions what this degree of prurience says about our society, especially when one thinks of horrible abuses of power everywhere: in the armed forces, in politics, in business, in churches, in schools, in cars, pretty much anywhere. I'm not a prig, but this movie is really sick. I don't need to comment on those who liked it.