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Chloe completely entered the world of Sin City, and the darkness that penetrated her bones made her breathless. She knew that Muffle was not a good person, his hands were already stained with blood, and he was also a wanted criminal. To be precise, he was also a criminal, and he was also a member of Sin City.

However, Chloe felt sorry for Muffle. Not because of his heroic feat of revenge for his lover thousands of miles, but because under the shadow of Sin City, he was forced to embark on the road of crime, using violence to counter violence. When a society completely loses order, all people will be faced with the struggle on the edge of the bottom line of survival. This is also the most terrifying place in war. For the icy city. This is why Chloe felt the shock of her soul.

Lance once again broke people's fixed thinking, once again presented the depth of art with rich lens language, and once again shaped the characters with sharp but delicate details.

From the full and mellow real tones of City of God, to the use of light that wanders between truth and falsehood in Murder with a Borrowing Knife, to the rich colors of City of Sin that break through the constraints of the frame, step by step, one step at a time Boldly, Chloe suddenly realized that these three movies are actually one movie.

Realizing this, Chloe turned her head involuntarily, subconsciously looking for something, and then she saw Emerson's excited eyes, neither of them spoke, but the look in their eyes But it was so similar, Chloe knew that she was not the only one who had such thoughts.

Emerson was shocked, excited, thrilled. After fifty minutes of watching the movie, his emotions are saturated, his mind is racing with countless thoughts, and he needs a little time to cool down-but the movie is not over yet. One thing he can confirm, though, is that Sin City will go down in history, no doubt about it.

Looking at Muffle who was sent to the electric chair, and the bishop with bloody hands, Emerson couldn't help but think of the recent news about the church/sexuality/violation of minors that caused a global sensation.

Under the auspices of the church, the horrific evil spreads, and the dirty hands are stretched out to young and ignorant children. It is hard to imagine how those traumatized children will grow up free from these shadow. According to the preliminary statistics of the Boston Globe, most of the children chose to commit suicide or sink, and those who managed to grow up called themselves survivors. All of this happened in the church that shines on believers in the name of God. It is dirty, shameful, terrifying, and shocking.

What's even more frightening is that the bishop already knew all this fifty years ago. If it wasn't for his protection, his acquiescence, and his connivance, the matter would not have developed to this point.

Ironically, in Sin City, Kevin tricked the prostitutes into his farm one by one, tortured them to death, and then devoured every corpse alive, not only flesh and blood, but also bones, even soul. And the bishop not only acquiesced to all this, but also promoted it all himself.

How ridiculous, how absurd, and how sad. The so-called hand of God has become the executioner who kills the soul.

If you think about it a step further, why did things get worse and worse in half a century, and no one has ever discovered it? This is not one or two cases, but hundreds of victims, all over the world, has no one ever discovered it? Or, the news media never reported it?

Why The Boston Globe? Why today, half a century later? Why has the news been reported before again, but no one has really paid attention to it?

Hiding behind that disgusting crime is the indifference and neglect of society for half a century! But it is a terrible reality so cruel that even angels cry for it! But it is an endless hell without heaven, without sunshine, and without hope! The silence and tolerance of the entire society, the silence and indifference of the news media, all these have become a breeding ground for crimes, and even promoted the continuation of crimes.

All this is precisely the core topic that Lance's previous three films explored!

From City of God to Murder with Borrowing Knife and then to City of Sin, Lance has always been exploring a question: Where will the indifference and cruelty of society go in the end?

When the whole society begins to become indifferent and alienated, turning a blind eye to the evils around us, even condoning them. Only when they became victims of crimes did they realize that they had nowhere to turn for help—the government’s law enforcement agencies became the backyard of lawbreakers, and the news media of the uncrowned king went to the point of no return to profit and entertainment Even the religious belief that the soul rests on has become a hell where evil breeds... At the end of nowhere, there is either explosion or death.

Now the big screen is showing the answer he gave, a virtual city, a world that relies on reality but projects an illusion, a lawless and crime-ridden land-Sin City was born.

Not only the story, not only the characters, but even the color and light have become Lance's weapons, which seem to be completely different, but they are in the same strain. Lance has outlined a grand blueprint through three works, and Welcome to Your Sin City re-establishes this cycle, from reality to illusion, and from illusion to reality.

It turns out that starting from the City of God, this game of chess has already begun to lay out!

If it wasn't during the viewing process, Emerson would have wanted to give a standing ovation directly. The trembling that went deep into his soul made him just want to scream, shout, and vent all the excitement and excitement, Lance is a genius, Lance is a fucking genius! But Emerson didn't, Because the audience in the auditorium could no longer hold back their emotions, they began to scream out of control. The shouts mixed with excitement and fear rang out intermittently and uncontrollably, making the auditorium gradually become a crime scene. part of the city.

A flying knife spun and cut off Jackie's left hand—starting from the wrist, the whole hand holding the pistol was cut off like a toy. On the other hand, Mei Ling, wearing a cloak embroidered with Chinese style, showed the lightness and sharpness in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. This is definitely the bloodiest scene since the beginning of the movie. It sprayed around like a fountain, obviously without any color penetration, it was still a black and white picture, but the shock produced caused a mountain roar and a tsunami.

The sound of someone retching can even be heard at the scene.

Jackie scrambled to pick up his severed hand, then bit off his finger with his teeth, and held the pistol in his right hand again. Such a black and humorous picture made the psychological unhappiness reach the extreme; Meiling cut Jackie in half with a sword, like a paper man, but not a single drop of blood seeped out, and the two pieces of body slowly fell to the sides, revealing Meiling's cold and proud face , but the shock effect has doubled.

Someone really started to vomit, but surprisingly, no one left.

This caused a little commotion, and many people turned their heads and complained in low voices, but it was only for a moment, because then people turned their attention to the big screen again, and no one wanted to miss this movie— — as if someone wouldn't want to leave even if they vomited.

Emerson didn't like the fourth story, because it seemed a bit too old-fashioned, more like a crime movie in the eighties, lacking the sharpness and wit of the first three stories, and also lacking Lance's infusion of the movie. The core idea seems to be dissociated from the whole creation story.

Dewight is a former criminal. After plastic surgery, he became the boyfriend of Shirley, the bartender, and helped her discipline her entangled ex-boyfriend, the violent Jackie. But Dwight finally found out that something was wrong. He followed Jackie to the old city ruled by gangs of prostitutes. Jackie didn't follow the rules and was killed by the prostitutes. Later, Dwight discovers that Jackie was a cop and that his death broke the agreement between the prostitutes and the cop. Therefore, Dewight must help them cover up the crime and protect them.

Even if Lance resurrected Jackie from the dead, watching Dewright and Jackie who was divided into two halves sitting in the car and talking, the grotesque image is amazing, with some surrealism in the absurdity color. But Emerson still doesn't like this story, it's too conventional, and it even seems to be out of tune with the whole movie.

But soon, Emerson changed his mind.

The prostitutes set up traps, gathered all the police officers, and the moles inside the prostitutes, and then they took out their submachine guns condescendingly and began to shoot. Such a bloody and violent picture shows some poetic flavor in the black and white slow motion, especially the gunfire in the rainstorm, dispelling the thick darkness bit by bit, the collision between evil and evil, in the Sublimated amidst lightning and thunder.

The dark clouds all over the sky were dyed red, not the color of Huoshaoyun, but the red dyed by blood, rich and unassuming, wanton and majestic.

This made Emerson almost want to applaud, ironic and humorous, sharp and delicate, every character is so vivid, evil and more evil, crazy and crazier; every picture is so wonderful, absurd and bizarre, Weird and bold. Everything makes the bloody violence of the whole movie completely out of control.

This is Sin City, the real Sin City! A city watered by blood, a land soaked in crime, a world without order, norms, and justice! When the society starts to ignore, when the society starts to be silent, when the society starts to tolerate... Sin City was born like this!