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A collection of interweaving stories
by G (movies profile)
Feb 20, 2007
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Robert Rodriguez's "Sin City" is the most authentic reproduction of a comic book experience seen on the big screen. The source material comes from the graphic novels of renowned artist Frank Miller, who doesn't hold back adapting his lurid tales of revenge, despair, and violence to the screen. Rodriguez has meticulously transferred Miller's B&W images from the page to the screen, and his lathered fanboy love for Miller's work shines like a diamond throughout the film. Rodriguez sticks hard to Miller's vision, which means that "Sin" is devastatingly violent. Shootouts, beheadings, cannibalism, and the occasional genital mutilation are all part of the average day in Basin City. Since the film was shot in B&W and features a highly charged comic book tone, the MPAA has been suspiciously nice to Rodriguez and awarded the picture an R rating. But fair warning must be mentioned to the squeamish: this is a severely grisly, undeniably visceral experience. |
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