Sin City.

Sin city is one of the most modern and talked about neo - noir films. It was one of the most highly anticipated film to be released in 2008. Being a graphic novel, it had a lot to live up to for the fans of sin city, But also a lot to live up to in the sense that this film was a anticipated neo - noir. It had to stay to the conventions but also branch out to a new level. A level in which none of the old neo - noirs could get to. They had to use the new technology they had well to make effects interesting yet watchable. To much would take it out of the noir theme. But even though this film is very over the top, it keeps to, and extends the conventions perfectly, and so it seems effortlessly.

The plot is strangely in chronological order, in classic noirs, they would usually start at the end of the film, and works through to see how it got to the point at the beggining. But in this film, its as if your cut to part of the film where you have to work things out for yourselves. The classic noir directors loved doing that, confusing you and making you think whereabouts your at. It has a lot of overlapping sub plots in the film. It has three interlocking stories. ''that yellow bastard'' where Bruce willis playing Hartigan, a police detective saves a girl from being raped, but the story is left thrown in the air as he is stabbed in the back by his parter in the business. the second story then goes into ''the hard goodbye' where a very hench Mickey Rourke plays a heartbroken Marv. After his hooker girlfriend is killed and he is framed for it, he runs the streets looking for the real killer. The third, the big fat kill, is when Clive owen aka Dwight has to dispose of a body without anyone finding out, but its a tough ride to freedom.

These sub plots are all very ''whodunnit' based. They all have the classic noir story lines but using neo - noir charecteristics too.

The colours used in this film are used to define certain people or main trends throughout the film. For example the blood in this film is either a pure white or a bright glowing red. Both in which stand out from the dreary grey background. One of the charecters, ''the yellow bastard' is shown in, of course, bright yellow. He is percieved as a horrible man, the worst. He is transformed after Hartigan ruins him. He was once a normal black and white charecter. Then transformed into this.

The Dialogue in Sin City is to me, the key feature of this film. It's the same witty and cunning banter, just like in the classics. The male husky, angry tones. And the females seductive innuendos. The dialogue really keeps the classic moments of film noir back in the 40's to this neo noir film. Another very good feature is the mis - en - scene. Whats in the film. the settings the props. All keeps to the conventions of film noir. The rain, the dark alleys. Every man has a gun.

This seems like the type of film, that in years to come could be revoultionary. It has opened up a new visual to movies, and ''The spirit' has already tried to copy its way of filming. It has done an amazing job of keeping to the neo - noir ways. It uses old conventions mixed with the new techologyy to create an amazing film.