I whole-heartedly agree with David Walsh. Walsh clearly states his loathing of Sin City and how "The bloodletting is needed to divert attention from the dull, puerile and repetitive dialogue and action." The core plot of the story-which we have all seen before- has been covered layers of violence and death. If the shooting, stabbing, beating, torturing and sadistic pleasure were stripped away, the movie would be left with noting. Absolutely nothing. Miller, one of the directors of Sin City, is also the creator of the comics: The Hard Goodbye, The Big Fat Kill and That Yellow Bastard. Just by looking at the titles I could guess that they are gory and spill an enormous amount of blood. David talks about what The Hard Goodbye is about and I guessed right. The hero in the story, Marv goes around killing countless people to find out who killed a women whom he had found dead next to him one day. When he finds the murderer, he kills him in a way utterly unimaginable to me. In my angriest moments, I have never thought about anything as horrible as what he did.
Movies are becoming more and more gory and focused on people dieing horrible painful deaths to entertain people. Too many movies are being centered on death and killing. Why do such sadistic images entertain people so much? Why does violence take the actual story by storm? People will often talk about the violence and murders in the movie, but not about the actual movie itself. Pop culture is becoming adamant about gore being the money-maker and audience attractor instead of something actually worth watching. On thing I do not agree with that was in this article was not written by Walsh, but the directors themselves. “As opposed to the ‘politically correct’ crowd [Miller nastily calls them the ‘grievance groups’], we are in touch with the darker side of life, if only in fantasy. This is liberating stuff. We don’t censor ourselves. This is human nature, brutish and cruel.” I am greatly opposed to this statement. Human nature is not brutish and cruel. Humans are naturally kind to each other; they risk their lives helping people they have never seen. Countless times have I heard of people defending someone being attacked, saving people form burning buildings, donating when they have little themselves and etcetera. The brutish human nature the directors talk about is only caused. Experiences like abuse often numb the heart from feeling kindness and make people impervious to the evil actions they commit. I believe they human nature is compassionate and caring, but the person can be "good" or "bad" purely by choice.