As you have probably seen in our reviews of Sucker Punch, Lauren and I both quite like this film, but feel like it needs to be dissected further to get to its full worth. So that is why we are here partaking in a big spoiler filled discussion of Zack Snyder’s new film that will hopefully help you further appreciate the film as it has for us. It could also very well tear it down at the same time in this case, so without further ado let’s get into it.

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Sucker Punch will have you wondering “why should I care” as you watch Zack Snyder’s beautiful film unfold, only to confound and confuse even further as it simultaneously saves the film from being narratively pointless in the end.

That above sentence doesn’t seem to be high praise, but the more I think and talk about this film the more I find myself liking it.  The film follows a young girl, Baby Doll, as she is wrongfully committed to a female institution for the mentally insane.  The film’s set up is fantastic and we are quickly thrust into Baby Doll’s fantasy world as she finds herself on the wrong end of a lobotomy.  Now, I know that last bit sounds spoilery but we get to that point fifteen minutes in so don’t worry.  In Baby Doll’s fantasy all the girls at the institution are still prisoners of their surroundings but instead are living in a gentlemen’s club/brothel of some sort.  The girls in the fantasy world plot an attempt to get out of this prison and must retrieve four objects to do so.  So where do all of those crazy action set pieces you keep seeing in the commercials come into play?  Those would be Baby Doll’s fantasies, inside the existing fantasy, that she has when she and the girls (Sweet Pea, Blondie, Rocket, and Amber) are attempting to get the items they need for escape.  That’s right, a dream within a dream.

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