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Article: Welcome to Blood-Soaked Sin City, Frank Miller's Morbid Fantasia.(Arts&Entertainment)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- April 11, 2005
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Byline: Andrew Sarris
Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez's Sin City, based on Mr. Miller's series of graphic novels, makes it look like we're at the end of Western civilization as we know it. One has only to itemize its simulated atrocities--cannibalism, mutilation, beheadings, torrential bloodbaths, even a comically inefficient electrocution--to realize that Sin City is a dark and dangerous place, not for the tender-hearted.
Labeling Sin City pornographic, as some of my colleagues have, is technically impossible in view of its R rating and the fact that there are no erotic situations to be found--no doubt disappointing for the constituency of the deeply ...