Updated On: 27 December, 2010 07:05 AM IST | | Daipayan Halder
There is one script Frank Miller would have loved to mull over for a sequel to his graphic gore fest Sin City
There is one script Frank Miller would have loved to mull over for a sequel to his graphic gore fest Sin City. In the original, a film panned by critics as porno-sadism for its "depictions of castration, murder, torture, decapitation, rape and misogyny", the lawmakers are the bad guys and the lawbreakers emerge as the keepers of conscience and sanity in a town without either.
At the top of the food chain is a megalomaniac senator and his pedophile son, the Yellow Bastard. Then there is a sinister cardinal and his accomplice, a boy-cannibal called Kevin. Protecting them are a bunch of corrupt cops and an insensitive judiciary.
Like in Sin City, castration, murder, torture, decapitation, rape and misogyny abound in this God-less land too
In this dark landscape, the only do-gooders are a band of armed prostitutes who want to keep their territory free from cops and pimps, a tortured soul with a heart of gold, a hitman who respects women, and an out-of-luck cop in jail for a child rape he didn't commit.
Here the innocents are badgered and the guilty are protected. Here greed is God and the head priest a pervert.
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The Christian lobby understandably attacked Miller for building a world without morals and defaming the Church.
Now, consider a script where a 58-year-old activist doctor who has dedicated his life to providing healthcare to tribals in a remote land is thrown in jail for allegedly being a sympathiser of armed rebels who have waged a war against the State. To protect its own, the State has armed tribals to take on the rebels who were reportedly fighting for the rights of those very tribals.