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IMDB rating: 8.40 Plot: “Sin City” is Four stories inter-weaved telling tales of corruption in Basin City. The First Story (The Customer is always right)is short, and is based on the depression of women that they need to pay a man to feel loved when they commit suicide. The Next Story is Part 1 of “That Yellow Bastard” starring Bruce Willis as a cop who needs to save a young girl from being raped. The Third Story (The Hard Goodbye) features Mickey Rourke and his revenge on a heartless killer who murdered his one-night stand. The fourth story (The Big, Fat Kill) stars Clive Owen as a man who must dispatch of a cop’s body, but it will be a tough ride to do it. Following that are two conclusions to Sin City, the ending of “That Yellow Bastard” which is set 8 years later, and a short story that ends Sin City. |
Actors: Boothe Powers,Ciccolella Jude,Dashnaw Jeffrey J.,De Luna Jesse,Del Toro Benicio,Douglas Jason,Duncan Michael Clarke,Flanagan Tommy,Gomez Rick,Thriller,Drama,Crime,Action,
Jesus crucified on a hill, instead of a road?
‘Whenever we crucify the guilty, the most crowded roads are chosen, where most people can see and be moved by this fear. For penalties relate not so much to retribution as to their exemplary effect.’~Quintilian (AD 35-95, Decl 274)
Christians, What document states that a claimed innocent must be crucified on a hill? Why wasn’t he crucified on the road outside of Jerusalem, like other criminals & rebels? Also, since he is your deity, how does that make others who have died via crucifixion less important or unworthy of attention? I won’t say ‘Horus was crucified for your sins’, let’s try a more realistic candidate, an actual King of the Jews (which may have ‘inspired’ the Jesus story): Antigonus.
‘Now when Antony had received Antigonus as his captive, he determined to keep him against his triumph; but when he heard that the nation grew seditious, and that, out of their hatred to Herod, they continued to bear good-will to Antigonus, he resolved to behead him at Antioch, for otherwise the Jews could no way be brought to be quiet. Strabo of Cappadocia attests… ‘Antony ordered Antigonus the Jew to be brought to Antioch, and there to be beheaded. And this Antony seems to me to have been the very first man who beheaded a king, as supposing he could no other way bend the minds of the Jews so as to receive Herod, whom he had made king in his stead; For by no torments could they be forced to call him king, so great a fondness they had for their former king; so he thought that this dishonourable death would diminish the value they had for Antigonus’s memory, and at the same time would diminish the hatred they bare to Herod. Thus far Strabo.’~Josephus (Antiquities 15.1.2)
‘These people Antony entrusted to a certain Herod to govern; but Antigonus he bound to a cross and flogged
