Formalist film

For our H/W we had to watch a formalist film. I decided to watch "sin city". SIn city is a bunch of shorts stories from graphic novels and are about criminals one of them is from the point  of view of a police officer, the other is a man whos prostitute is killed, and a man trying to kill a police officer. It is a very formalist film as it is done in black and white except for some parts of the screen which are in colour for example blood, shoes and a woman. This is done to make an object stand out. For example it shows a woman who is the love of one of the main characters life and it shows her whole body in colour which makes it stand apart from the blurred out black and white figures and this adds to making her seem much more beautiful than everyone else.

Another thing that is formalist in the film of sin city is the way parts of it are presented is very exaggerated. For example when a police car goes over a hill it goes high in the air. Plus when the police come to the door of someone's house the cops are in an exaggerated number.

The story of Sin City isn't so formalist but the form of it is formalist and so this works. I think that if the story of sin city was formalist then it would be too much and wouldn't work but they didn't so it has succeeded in being a good film.