Sin city Key scenes:

Marv wakes next to Goldie’s dead body

John receives a letter with a severed finger inside

Lady from Shanghai key scenes:

Mirror scene – shootout between

Social context at the time:

‘The Lady from shanghai – 1947’

• 3 years after WW2 ended
• Post war anxiety – fear of foreigners infiltrating America
• Golden age of capitalism, 1945 – 1975

‘Sin city – 2004’

• September 11 – 19 terrorists hijacked four commercial airlines to conduct a coordinated act of terrorism
• America was struck with a long term anxiety of fear of being infiltrated from the inside
• Idea of law and order being untrustworthy as an easily preventable attack was not handled and prevented