"Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted."- Ellen Glasgow

Frank Miller has adapted a comic book onto screen very successfully with his film Sin City (2005). The editing is amazing and gives a perfect feel to the comic movie using the style of both expressionist and film noir techniques. Techniques such as long shadows, under-lighting, selection, high contrast, non-linear story-telling and narration. The use of high contrast black and white with small splashes of colour for emphasis, such as red blood, blue eyes etc, is unlike most films therefore giving it an individual and different look and atmosphere perfect for the adaption. Although it is quite a violent movie these scenes are done artistically leaving the audience to imagine the details. The audience sees the reaction, blood splattered across a face in either red or silhouetted white. Also using a rotoscope silhouette style leaving a white outline of the action. However this technique may make it more graphic as people often have wide imaginations. The cast is quite impressive with no obvious main characters. Sin City story-line is told out of order (in film noir style) by different characters narration's which eventually piece together to form the story. Even if not interested in comics or violent movies Sin City is a great movie to watch for the unusual and artistic editing style.