{"id":1430,"date":"2005-09-28T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/~frers\/cgi-bin\/blosxom.cgi\/reviews\/movies\/sin_city.html"},"modified":"2010-01-23T02:01:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T01:01:43","slug":"not-sure-about-the-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/?p=1430","title":{"rendered":"Not sure about the violence."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago I saw <em>Sin City<\/em> \u2013 impressive pictures, super soundtrack and excellent actors that blend into the the dark and gritty world of Frank Miller&#8217;s Sin City perfectly. It is the best comic adaption that I have seen so far. Comics are one of my favorite media \u2013 the story telling possiblities offered by putting pictures into sequences are stunning. (If you haven&#8217;t done so until now, you definitely have to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottmccloud.com\/\">Scott McCloud&#8217;s<\/a> <em>Understanding Comics<\/em>, which is also translated into German. One of the few must have reads that I would recommend to anyone.)<br \/>\nHowever, I do have one problem with the comic market which definitely moves into focus when watching Sin City as a movie: the aggressive depiction of violence. From my perspective, the violence in Sin City wasn&#8217;t too bad; I found it less disconcerting than the comic sequence in <em>Kill Bill vol. 1<\/em> for example. The use of colors other than red for blood, the obvious non-realism of the massive amount of injuries sustained by the protagonists and the whole mystic and dark atmosphere made dealing with the violence easier for me. Nonetheless, I remain skeptical about the whole <span style=\"color:#800\">kill splatter shoot die moan guts-flying-around<\/span> issue \u2013 my non-spilled guts tell me to\u2026<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0401792\"><abbr title=\"Internet Movie Database\">IMDb<\/abbr> entry<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/miramax\/sin_city\/\" title=\"QuickTime plugin required\">Trailer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago I saw Sin City \u2013 impressive pictures, super soundtrack and excellent actors that blend into the the dark and gritty world of Frank Miller&#8217;s Sin City perfectly. It is the best comic adaption that I have seen so far. Comics are one of my favorite media \u2013 the story telling possiblities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[111,176,197],"class_list":["post-1430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","category-review","tag-animation","tag-comic","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2278,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions\/2278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}