In Reply to: No offense, but Sin City is not the dehumanizing experience you're describing. posted by Audiophilander on September 29, 2005 at 09:26:36:
all the while uttering phrases of delight in what he's doing... yeah, that's a healthy cartoon alright (and no, this doesn't compare to Reservoir Dogs because the Madsen character in that film is the villain doing the unthinkable to a cop, definitely portrayed as a brave guy who won't refuse to give up his friend; the violence also has a plot drive reason, unlike the vivisection scene).
This entire sado-masochistic film is a senseless bloodbath. If you find pleasure in watching humans torturing and severely injuring one another, and your pleasure is increased by the volume of blood, then, mon ami, you have some seriously repressed issues (God, I hope they're repressed...).
Don't make light of the fact that the hero of the film is the torturer, either. I can't think of another film wherein we're asked to look upon a sadistic torturing murderer as the "good guy."
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Follow Ups
- The HERO of the movie cuts off a man's arms and legs.... - tinear 13:46:06 09/29/05 (4)
- But the hero's "victim" turned paraplegic & killed was the most vicious sado-masochistic serial killer ever depicted. - Audiophilander 01:53:29 09/30/05 (2)
- Many Heroes are cold-blooded killers - Daryl Zero 14:57:23 09/30/05 (0)
- Didn't see any torture in the list at the end. Killing and extremely - tinear 08:25:21 09/30/05 (0)
- Yeah, but . . . - Daryl Zero 14:07:03 09/29/05 (0)