skill and the punk aesthetic

Rating: Null/10 (2 April 2005)

this film shows the work of a skilled director, who has vision, technique, and discipline, abandoning convention and letting everything, (and i mean everything) hang out there. from the behind the scenes drama (relinquishing his dga card) to the on screen shock, he tells a sublime story about good and evil, about justice and corruption, about heaven and hell, and about the people that populate those regions, without bowing to the powers that be. i will have to soak this film in and see it a couple of more times to place it in a catechism order, but right now, moments after my first screening, "sin city" is about as "right" a movie as i have seen.