Some People Just don't get it

Rating: Null/10 (1 April 2005)

This is a fantasy also pegged as a fictional city, I would use the word fantasy. Noir films of old depicted real life events in a swish pastry shop way. This film does not. The lives and events are fictional more fanatical really. No real outstanding performances except Mickey Rouke, Excellent job. You have to be a fan of this type of underground comic to really get the point or meaning of what is being portrayed. That is if there really is one. Just like music sometimes it is just entertainment. Other comics like Faust and Razor have violent disturbing visualizations of an exaggerated truth. Again take what ever meaning you want from it, this type film is truly a love it or leave it type of art form. It may opens doors (hopefully) for more gritty capturing stories that go beneath the shelf. Lets face it the next Spiderman or Superman for that matter would never go to these depths. R rated either for the bucks are with the kiddies. Thats why comics like this aren't much understood. But the righteous indignant right will hate it and blame it for countless things wrong with society. But how can they do that when it takes real life horror to exaggerate a fictitious story like this from. Remember the comics code, big brother etc. Read the paper and see the news at night, it's not film that makes people go off. This is escapist entertainment people!