In the review for Sin City, it states that it helps in the campaign to use bloody revenge and torture as a way to treat one’s enemies. I can’t agree more. In fact, the movie goes way over the top, as shown when the guy rips the killer’s arms and legs off and ties him to a tree for the dogs to eat him in “The Hard Goodbye” part. When the author quotes the filmmakers in the fifth paragraph, at the end they say, “This is human nature, brutish and cruel.” Is it really brutish and cruel??? It makes me wonder if the filmmakers are right in their minds. When I try to picture myself chopping a guy’s arms off, my mind goes blank. I can’t even picture myself holding up a chainsaw, much less hacking off another person’s arm! If that is what human nature really is, I must not be human then. So I don’t agree with the filmmakers and I definitely side with the reviewer. Why would anyone be attracted to such material? This is definitely repulsive and Walsh states his disgust clearly when he says that Sin City is a repugnant mix of adolescent (early-adolescent, at that) male fantasy, artistic unseriousness and misanthropy in the seventh paragraph.

However, Walsh also inserts a rather contrary point of view by spiritual Matthew Hill. Hill says that the movie shows that we all live in a Sin City, a city where we have to be rescued by a knight in shining armor, by God. He also says this is yet another movie about people’s sense of something not right in the world. I guess that is one—more appraising—way to look at the movie under all that horrifying violence. Yet I don’t think that is what the filmmakers intended. They just want to find an appalling way to create a story that will terrify people beyond words. So I still find the movie sickening.