In The Land Of The Polymorphous Perverse, Sin City Reigns

Rating: 3/10 (16 March 2006)

Sin City is the title for a series of stories by Frank Miller, told in comic book form in a film noir-like style. Sin City the movie is based on the comic book series by the same name. For those for whom Sin City would seem nothing more than a glorification of torture, mutilation, and murder, this is due to Miller's penchant for Ero-guro, a genre of Japanese pornography and hentai involving blood, gore, disfigurement, mutilation, urine, enemas, etc.. Miller began to infuse his comics with darker themes and stories heavily influenced by Japanese manga strips during the early 1980's. Sin City is his most notable tribute to this form of Eroguronansensu, lit. meaning erotic-grotesque-nonsense. Oddly, the movie seemed just another of Hollyweird's attempts at castration as vengeance. I suppose 90 minutes of continuous rape where no retribution is attained wouldn't get the thumbs up from Ebert? Personally, I would rather my kids were perusing the internet for the usual porn rather than watching this stuff. Each to his own.