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Movie Review: Sucker Punch 2011
I’ve watched this movie twice already but the story is a bit hazy. Someone told me that it’s really not a good idea to watch this movie which is why I wanted to prove her point for telling me just that. So I tried to like it and understand it but I just can’t. it just doesn’t go that well for me. We’ll I think that it’s good if we speak about the graphics or special effects but the flow of the story is a bit really haze. I just can’t seem to find the relevance of the transition from reality to imagination.
Here’s the story…
It’s about a girl named “baby doll” (Emily Browning), yes that’s her real name in this movie. Sweet isn’t it? She is locked away in a mental asylum by her abusive stepfather where she will undergo a lobotomy in five days time. Faced with unimaginable odds, she retreats to a fantastical world in her imagination where she and four other female inmates at the asylum, planned to escape the facility. The lines between reality and fantasy blur as Baby Doll and her four companions who also have sweet names as Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish), Rocket (Jena Malone), Blondie (Vanessa Hudgens) and Amber (Jamie Chung), as well as a mysterious guide, fight to retrieve the five items they need that will allow them to break free from their captors before it’s too late…
The hazy part for me here actually was when she dances (baby doll), her audiences doesn’t seem to be there at all. They were too occupied by her dancing that they cannot even know they’re being robbed of something in there possession, Being not aware of the environment they are in. However, I still manage to go on. I have to admit that as I go on with the movie I like the style and tone of the effects including the sound but still I can’t relate to the relevance to the story. However, this movie reminds me of Charlie’s Angel… so I think you already got the idea.
Baby doll’s story actually showed three realities together, Inception, Comparisons and Tread Lightly; the first being in the asylum, second is a burlesque brothel run by Blue and trained by Gorski and the last and most magnificent one is Baby Doll’s hyper reverie focused on destroying the forces of evil — be it shogun titans, zombie Nazis or killer androids. The darker the reality preceding it, the deeper and more risky the adventures of fantasies go. Wow! So I did understand the movie somehow! Well, just to give it a rate including all aspects (story and special effects) I’ll give it a 7/10. Enjoy the movie with pop corns though because my husband was asleep in the middle of it, he got bored. (Probably that would help).
Good point.