My report of Sin City (Neo-noir)

As in my example the film features 3 volumes of stories by ‘Frank Miller’ who originally wrote the story on a comic book series. The first part is called ‘The Hard Goodbye’ about a man who embarks on a brutal rampage in search of his one-time sweetheart's killer; The Big Fat Kill, which focuses on a street war between a group of prostitutes and a group of mercenaries; and That Yellow Bastard, which follows an aging police officer who protects a young woman from a grotesquely disfigured serial killer. Although there is three different storylines going on its not always obvious that the stories are not connected. As the viewer you feel as if you just getting an insight into the characters and the narrative is building up to them meeting.


The film starts with ‘The Salesman’ walking onto a penthouse balcony where ‘The Customer’ looks out over Basin City. He says that she looks like someone who is tired of running and that he will save her. The two share a kiss and he shoots her; she dies in his arms. He says he’ll never know what she was running from but that he’ll cash her check in the morning. Then surprisingly the story jumps to a different storyline That Yellow Bastard (Part 1). On the docks of Sin City, an aging police officer tries to stop a serial child-killer. From raping and killing eleven-year-old .


The Hard Goodbye


After a one-night stand Marv awakens to find Goldie has been killed while he slept. vowing to avenge her death. His parole officer warns him to give up on this mission. Marv interrogates several informants, working up to a corrupt priest. Marv kills the priest, but is attacked by a woman who looks like Goldie. Eventually he ends up being executed


The Big Fat Kill


That Yellow Bastard (Part 2)


Hartigan is recovering in a hospital and is told Nancy is in danger and in the end Hartigan commits suicide to ensure Nancy's safety. Again, he justifies his life for Nancy's as a fair trade.


Epilogue


An injured Becky departs from a hospital, talking on a cell phone with her mother. In the elevator she encounters The Salesman. Narrating the scene, he says that if you turn the right corner in Sin City, you can find anything.


So the narrative of the film is very dark, there isn’t really much happiness in the film all the characters we feel close to and side with all end up dying and no one really seems to win. And the message of the fiction city comes across; that nothing good ever really happens in Sin City.


Sin City uses shadow and stark backgrounds, black and white are the sole colours most of the time with exception of red, yellow and blue in some stories.