Colors

Rating: Null/10 (3 April 2005)

I have already seen Sin City twice since it's release two days ago. In the second viewing, I noticed something interesting about the colors. I was thinking that there had to be a reason why the director/editors decided to show some things a certain color so I tried to figure it out. In the movie, only red, green, yellow, and blue are used as colors contrasting to the black and white. The red color (besides blood) was used only on the 'good' characters. Examples would be Dwight's red converse shoes and the Hartigan's? red car. Green was shown twice in two character's eyes: Cardinal Roark and the woman in red in the beginning. I thought maybe this could symbolize corruption? The last two colors, blue and yellow were only used on the 'bad' characters such as Jackie Boy's blue car and the obvious YELLOW bastard. Maybe this is already a known fact or maybe I'm making something out of randomness but I thought I'd share in case anyone had comments on it. Obviously I liked the movie because I've seen it more than once and I agree that the Quentin Tarantino being advertised so much was pretty lame. True, some people would go out and see it soley because he had a part in it but still...I think it shouldn't be about that. Anyways, I'd like to hear if anyone agrees or disagrees with me about the color thing. Thanks!