The Rodeo

 
 
I said I’d do a review of Sin City, but Craig already wrote one. My view of the movie is pretty much in sync with his: it is fantastic artistically, loads of violence (some quite disturbing), and a bit of pointless nudity. 
 
The colouring of the movie (black and white, with a few splashes of colour here and there) seems to emphasise the violence, while at the same time de-emphasising the skin. Don’t know how that works, but it does. 
 
As the movie is almost shot-for-shot from the graphic novels, there are great many points where pausing will give you what looks to be a panel from a comic. It looks very cool. 
 
The story is pretty simple, without any big twists, but the clumsy narration is what drives the film. Each of the protagonists has a voice-over running through the entire length of their sections of the movie. It feels awkward, but it fits. They explain everything that happens, and it all makes sense. From their perspectives anyway. 
 
I don’t think I’d watch it again, but it looks fantastic and that’s probably a good enough reason to watch it, if you can stand the violence. 
 
RodeoClown: will never look at someone called ‘Kevin’ the same way again.

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