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movie review - Sin City

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2007.08.07

This is an incessantly unpleasant and sexist movie based on a comic book series from the early '90s. The funny thing is that I was still a bit into comics at that time and recall that people who were into that series tended to be unpleasant and sexist (virgins). The male characters in this thing are usually exaggerated and are either macho-chatty or macho-silent. There are some sub-types that tend to the comically surreal and disgusting. The women are all sex objects.

The plots are loosely connected and generally OK. But I can't imagine watching this twice.

Not recommended.

rand()m quote

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

—Mark Twain