lundi, juillet 25, 2005  Sure, the stories were tight, but what impressed me was the style rather than the substance. It got wearying after a while - film noir does not impress me - but I'll give credit where it's due - it's a pretty little movie, marginalised women and all. (Really, do all the women have to be hookers? Except that one (lesbian) parole officer?) I liked the cast best. I like them all, they were brilliantly cast - except for that one hooker with the blue eyes. She should just stick to Gilmore Girls and leave the acting to the professionals. Alexis Bledel didn't have a difficult part - not like the extended part that Mickey Rourke or Bruce Willis had. But anyone could have played a hooker taunting gangsters better than her - anyone. She's a horrible actress, and I really hope that they stop giving her parts in anything. Devon Aoki was an extremely pleasant surprise - I thought she was underutilised in 2 Fast 2 Furious, but she hasn't had many movie outings since then - too busy with the catwalk, I suppose. Elijah "Frodo" Wood also made a good freaky Hannibal-Lector-in-Converse-Sneakers - someone told me that the hobbit image she had of him was dispelled forever, and I think that probably goes for most of the people who watched Sin City... and was probably the impetus behind his choice of character to play. Josh Hartnett was a pleasant surprise - but blink and you'll miss him. The impressive thing about Sin City is that there's not much dialogue. There's a lot of posing, but very sparse dialogue. In fact, Devon Aoki and Elijah Wood have no lines whatsoever. They just do their thing (Aoki with the Kill Bill samurai swords, and Wood with the converse sneakers jumping), and let the action (and draggy voiceovers) carry the show forward. That was an unusual move, and elevated it (in my book, at least) beyond the level of being just another kitchy movie masquerading as an "instant classic" due to its use of black and white. Extreme violence, hookers, sex and nudity, electrocution, blood, a smelly yellow old paedophile with a pot-belly, and guns, guns and guns. (The yellow guy's the scariest of the lot.) [Sin City] |
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