Sin City Intro Analysis

Sin City
At the start of there is an establishing shot of a woman walking to the edge of a balcony, which over looks the city and there is ambient sounds coming from the city; the woman is wearing a dress. Everything in the shot is in black and white except for the woman’s dress, which is red. There’s a voice over narrating what the woman is doing. The shots cut to the front of the woman and there is a man walking up from behind her, the voice over narrates the man walking up behind the woman. The man is wearing a black suit and tie; he offers the woman a cigarette. The man’s voice is the same as voice over. She turns around and there is an over the over the shoulder shot as she takes the cigarette, we can see that the woman is wearing red lipstick but everything else is still in black and white. Shot reverse shot is used as the two characters have a conversation, the man looks happy to see the woman and they begin to act flirtatious to one another. There’s a close up of the woman’s face as the man lights her cigarette, he talks about the woman’s eyes and they turn green for a moment and then change back to black and white. The woman turns back around and looks down at the city, the camera starts to zoom up at the man standing behind the woman. The man starts talking about the woman running away and not being able to face something, the characters begin to act more serious as the camera zooms even closer. The woman turns around and looks at the man, the shot changes to long shot of the two characters, the characters kiss and are now two white silhouettes against the black and white city landscape. The shot changes back to normal and there’s a close up of the man hugging the woman, the voice over starts talking about the woman in detail such as the smell of her perfume. They kiss again and the voice over says, “I tell her I love her”. For an instant there is a quick white flash and a sharp shooting noise. The woman falls into his arms and his hand comes into the shot holding a pistol with a silencer. The shot cuts to a high angle shot of the man holding the woman on the floor in the rain, the voice over says “I hold her close until she’s gone, I’ll never know what she was running from”. The man looks up at the sky and then back down at the woman, the shot zooms out going into the sky. The camera goes out rotating around building until it’s looking down at the city. The buildings make out the words Sin City and slowly turn red, which contrasts with the black and white city.