Hi Mike,

when you say that 'it's too long', you do mean it!

I enjoyed this movie for the atmosphere and the story however it's quite
difficult to find a starting point and a goal. From my point of view,
this movie is the story a city where you see several parallel stories
where character can meet. Even if I enjoy this kind of structure in a
series of books, it remains quite difficult to tell the same stories in
2 hours. You don't have time to set up everything.

I was really disappointed by this movie because at the end of the day,
you just have the stories of a couple of characters to think about. I
didn't feel involved or interested in their life.

PY

On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 13:36, Mike OBrien wrote:
> A startling cinematic translation of the graphic novel style.
>
> Sin City is a vision of hell: a dark and brutish metropolis, where
> men are men, women are dames, and machismo is the only acceptable
> code of behaviour. It's a place conjured up from the wet dream
> of a
> alpha male sociopath - a disturbing depiction of the potential
> horrors of raw masculinity. The stripped down, stylised form
> perfectly conveys the underlying absurdities in this bone crunching,
> flesh tearing, animalistic world, with its addiction to simplistic
> revenge, and penchant for sentimentality.
>
> The sheer relentless accumulation of savagery, combined with the
> dark, oppressive, and claustrophobic atmosphere, and the final
> sickening revenge attack (reminiscent of the equally stomach-churning
> attack in Irreversible), cannot fail to revolt, and certainly mean
> that it cannot simply be filed away as `comic book-like'.
>
> The main flaw in the film is it is too long. The three storylines
> present an interesting structure, but do not really add anything
> substantial to the central theme.
>
> Having said that, it is still an impressive film, and well worth
> watching.
>
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