Sin City: 5 stars
The first time I watched Sin City, I took a christian asian girl to see it. She couldn't handle the blood and gore of the movie and I lost interest in her shortly after. I don't remember her name. The next night, I took another girl to see it and she enjoyed it greatly. I remember that she sold sex products through house parties but strangely enough not her name. I think she was critical of me sometime that night and that turned me off, though I have thought about her a few times since.
Sin City is a great movie. It is visually appealing. Mentally challenging. It has a pulp fiction-esque style that leads you through the lives of three interconnected individuals in Sin City....but you don't see all of the connections until the end and the movie subtly drops clues to these connections as it progresses through their narratives. It has two product placements: AAA, and Springfield Armory but these took a third watching to see, and they were subtle. There was Nazi Symbolism that made me question my support of the movie, but it all seemed to fit together well. There was also the hidden moral that I don't mind but I would be annoyed with if I was of a different complexion; protect the blond blue-eyed caucasian girl at any cost.
The line I picked up from the movie in this watching was spoken by one of the henchmen, he said "Never give an Irishman a cause for revenge." This group of characters reminds me of the IRA conflict in Great Britain. Again, everything is very subtle and nuanced. You take out of the movie the things that you brought into it. Like I said, a great film.
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