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Apr. 14th, 2005 10:06 amSin City was serious noir. If you've read any of the detective novels/stories before WW2, then you understand the kind of world these people live in. It's a pre-made mythology, with of course a few added inventions, but in general the good guys are hardly good, just have a sense of what's right. They even admit they are failures at being good people. Whereas the bad guys, well, they're bad and evil and unredeemable and either think they're right or that it doesn't matter. I especially enjoyed the Senator and Cardinal being bad guys, because their weapons were contracts and words and bureaucracy. Hey, I watched Angel, where they had to fight against an evil law firm.
But yeah, even the most pure and innocent people work in strip bars. There's no good in this world, the way we think of good. The priests and police are all in cahoots. The only way to fight back is with violence, and this world abounds in it. Now, I haven't read the comic at all, but considering there was no screenplay writer listed, I'm assuming it was fairly close to it, obviously modified a bit to have the movie arch around it. The plot reminded me of Pulp Fiction, except of course it was better, but you know, the episodic nature connecting people to the beginning, and all that.
There were of course very few plot twists that weren't obvious, but that's because I knew the genre, and I knew the time structure was skewed for each episode, so no one was dead yet at the "end". And the dialogue was cliched, but that's just because it's been 70 years since it was first written. It was the correct choice, I mean. That's how people talk in this universe. Reg called it "the noir mythology" because he's been reading Campbell, but that's not far off the mark. Just like Dogma probably doesn't appeal that much to people who don't know shit about Christian mythology.
Um, yeah, I liked it. I still had to turn away from the more violent scenes, but that's cool. I can't do that with comics, so still not sure if I'm gonna read any of the series. My favorite part was Clive Owen's, even though it wasn't as firmly in genre, just because the whores took care of their own.
But yeah, even the most pure and innocent people work in strip bars. There's no good in this world, the way we think of good. The priests and police are all in cahoots. The only way to fight back is with violence, and this world abounds in it. Now, I haven't read the comic at all, but considering there was no screenplay writer listed, I'm assuming it was fairly close to it, obviously modified a bit to have the movie arch around it. The plot reminded me of Pulp Fiction, except of course it was better, but you know, the episodic nature connecting people to the beginning, and all that.
There were of course very few plot twists that weren't obvious, but that's because I knew the genre, and I knew the time structure was skewed for each episode, so no one was dead yet at the "end". And the dialogue was cliched, but that's just because it's been 70 years since it was first written. It was the correct choice, I mean. That's how people talk in this universe. Reg called it "the noir mythology" because he's been reading Campbell, but that's not far off the mark. Just like Dogma probably doesn't appeal that much to people who don't know shit about Christian mythology.
Um, yeah, I liked it. I still had to turn away from the more violent scenes, but that's cool. I can't do that with comics, so still not sure if I'm gonna read any of the series. My favorite part was Clive Owen's, even though it wasn't as firmly in genre, just because the whores took care of their own.
