A masterpiece

Rating: Null/10 (10 April 2005)

Sin City is nothing less than a masterpiece. It's easy to nitpick as every critic has his or her opinion, most of them ignorant and ill-informed. But looking at this film for what it is, it's simply amazing!
True this film is violent. Stories about gangsters and underworld crime often are, but this film does NOT revel in it. It stylizes violence into a beautiful symphony of visual music. We live in a culture that celebrates violence. Let's admit it. As a writer, I certainly do. I lap it up like honey.
It's cathartic and a damn well entertaining!
Critics complaining about lack of depth or characterization do not know what they are talking about, because within this violent world, characters such as Mickey Rourke's and Bruce Willis's question their choices, their role in the world.
It's about time people realize that comic books and graphic novels are not the playground exclusively for drooling, undersexed, pimply faced fan-boys. As angry as we are, we reach out for meaning in a confused chaotic world. We tell the stories we want to tell and yes, we're offended when it's dismissed as a two- dimensional male fantasy, because too many elitist stick-up-their-butt sheep-brains do not see the world we see, and refuse to believe there is such ugliness in this world. But no matter how ugly violence is, there is beauty that can be found. And that is what I took away from this film.
This super-human world Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez (with Quentin Tarantino) created represents our struggle in a "sinful" world. Here this world is stripped down to its black and white essence, beautifully realized on celluloid. This is the kind of visual storytelling filmmakers will strive to duplicate for years to come.
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