Sin City Opener

“She shivers in the wind like the last leaf on a dying tree,” The Man (Josh Hartnett) says when we open. He follows a woman to an open terrace, presumably during a fancy party of some sort. The music is smooth jazz, we’re transported and introduced to Frank Miller’s world easy with the red dress and red lips on the woman as our only color.

The Man narrates in a way we’re all used to when it comes to seedy crime movies– slow, easy. He tells the woman that everything will be alright, that he loves her, and then “the silencer makes a whisper of the gunshot.” He’ll pick her check up in the morning. And just like that, the movie we waltzed into so easy and familiar, is familiar no more.