“This
is blood for blood and by the gallons. These are the old days man, the bad days,
the all-or-nothing days. They're back! There's no choices left. And I'm ready
for war.”
Sin City is a movie that for the past
eight years I have been curious to see. I was talking to my brother Anthony
about movies we want to see and he brought up that he is so pumped for Sin City 2 to come out this year (I believe
he said this year I could be wrong). Anthony has been taking film classes at
school where he has to watch older films like the ones I watch and post on this
site. He told me that Sin City is
like a Noir which immediately grabbed my interest. I did not know what to
expect with Sin City. Since I did not
know anything at all about the plot or the directors or the characters I found
myself enjoying it.
The
movie has three stories with several different characters. All the characters
mix together at certain times in each of their stories. I am not going to go
into all the stories. I paid attention to each one but to explain them would
take me forever.
The
movie is very creative and artistic making it completely different to anything
that has been released since then. It does feel like a cheesy Noir with its
voiceovers from a tough guy who was or is a cop. The opening scene with Josh
Harnett and Marley Shelton looked like it was taken out of a Noir from the
forties it was perfect. I liked how the cinematography was black and white and
at certain points in the film a light would shine and reveal color. That lighting
effect was really cool it was as if you were being taken out of the dark for
moment. The reds and the blues that were made to stand out were stunning
shades. I could not get over how blue Alexis Bledel’s eyes were made to look.
The best was the red in Josh Hartnett’s and Clive Owen’s shoes.
I
thought the casting for this movie was odd yet perfect at the same time. The
oddest casting choices I thought were Elijah Wood, Alexis Bledel (she is by far
the oddest), and Josh Hartnett. Wood had the weirdest role out of anyone in the
movie… wait that one goes to the Yellow Bastard actually. He did not have any
lines he was quiet and really unsettlingly creepy. Alexis Bledel I associate
with Gilmour Girls or Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. I
would never think of her as a hooker turned rat. But she works out well in the
role just as the entire cast works in their roles. Jessica Alba looked like she
did not belong in a movie like this. She looked great but she looked out of
place. I would actually like to see her in another movie with Bruce Willis they
were paired very well.
Sin City was not my kind of movie I would
have watched on my own had Anthony not said it was like watching a Noir. I do
not plan to watch it again for a while. I am happy that I sat through Sin City at least once because it was so
different and so creative. I wish more movies were made with the care and
creativity like Sin City.
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