Kevin, Sin City's mute sociopath residing at “The Farm”, a dark and foreboding fortress located outside city limits, eats the flesh of prostitutes after killing them and mounting their heads on the wall like trophies and shares the scraps with his dog . The viewer understands Kevin as a human being, however, the viewer is also confronted with the unsettling and uncanny awareness that something about Kevin's appearance and gestures have digressed from human to something non-human. In relation to the Mori's hypothesis, Kevin would be perceived in a similar state as a non-human entity somewhere beyond the apex of human empathy but before the arc of human-to-human empathy, essentially within the “uncanny valley”. This can be partially attributed to the viewers awareness of his violent behaviour, interpreted as a robotic disregard for human life. However, what seems more convincing is Kevin's lack of regard for his own life. At a point in the film, Kevin's arms and legs are amputated with a hacksaw and tied with rubber tubes, to act as tourniquets, keeping him alive while his entrails, still attached to his body, are fed to his pet dog. Under most circumstances this would be an unimaginably difficult scene to watch, even if arguably deserving. However, Kevin's silence and expressionless face throughout the extreme torture down plays the grotesqueness of the event, while subjecting the viewer to a far more uncanny discomfort separated from the event and related specifically to Kevin as an individual, Kevin's digression into robotic nature.
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