Sin City and Europe
Apr. 2nd, 2005 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
varjohaltiaNo, the two don't have anything to do with each other. I hope!
I saw Sin City last night with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
obsidiangryphon and her posse. The movie was visually very interesting. Cartoony would describe it perfectly, if the term wasn't so diluted. The movie is all blue-screened, very high contrast, very noir in lighting and composition. Scenes could've come directly out of Miller's pen, complete with the use of negative space. To pull this off consistently in a full-length live-action feature movie is pretty impressive.
Apart from the distinct visuals, the movie was pretty gruesome. It retained the ruthless, cruel edge of Miller's original work; it's only due to the abstract nature of the visuals that the content of what is happening remains bearable. I'd argue that this movie had the sickest, most explicit violence I've ever seen in public distribution. Yet the way the characters take all of it with the typical Humphrey Bogarth aplomb is what gives its nihilistic world view that fascinating character.
On a completely unrelated note, for those few who might be interested in this I ran across a pretty good collection of articles about the European Union and what is happening there now, including some statistics and such.
The weather is, in a word, perfect. I should be writing my paper(s), but I might postpone it until a bit later, and go for a stroll at Lettuce Lake instead. Tomorrow, Ren Fest.
I saw Sin City last night with
obsidiangryphon and her posse. The movie was visually very interesting. Cartoony would describe it perfectly, if the term wasn't so diluted. The movie is all blue-screened, very high contrast, very noir in lighting and composition. Scenes could've come directly out of Miller's pen, complete with the use of negative space. To pull this off consistently in a full-length live-action feature movie is pretty impressive.Apart from the distinct visuals, the movie was pretty gruesome. It retained the ruthless, cruel edge of Miller's original work; it's only due to the abstract nature of the visuals that the content of what is happening remains bearable. I'd argue that this movie had the sickest, most explicit violence I've ever seen in public distribution. Yet the way the characters take all of it with the typical Humphrey Bogarth aplomb is what gives its nihilistic world view that fascinating character.
On a completely unrelated note, for those few who might be interested in this I ran across a pretty good collection of articles about the European Union and what is happening there now, including some statistics and such.
The weather is, in a word, perfect. I should be writing my paper(s), but I might postpone it until a bit later, and go for a stroll at Lettuce Lake instead. Tomorrow, Ren Fest.
