Sucker Punch is one of my all-time favourite movie. I loved the fantasy-like realm that was created in the movie. Even though everything was just Babydoll's imagination, they actually hold much more meaning in reality, because it was what held her through her difficulties and eventually pushed her to overcome them.
It is precisely the video game elements that seem to put off a majority of the audiences.Reviews are talking about how it is ridiculous, just an animation of a video game, a waste of time and money, and how incomprehensibly simplistic the movie was to them. Maybe it's because the movie was an illustration of one of the many different types of adversities one may face in the world. Maybe it's because they didn't like how unrealistic Babydoll's method of overcoming her obstacles was.
But that's precisely why I love the movie. To me, it's more than just a video game, or a showcase of beautiful girls adept at martial arts. I have never even remotely thought of the movie as feminist.
The movie was an illustration of what many of us stuck captive in reality would want to do: escape from reality.
Perhaps that's why I loved the movie so much. Because I myself would love to escape from reality once in a while. If only I could fly, wave a sword, kill monsters and still look good while doing that.
Or maybe your fantasy could be something else. But whatever it is, Sucker Punch basically embodies this desire of ours.
Yeah I am faced with difficulties, and yeah I gotta be strong and overcome it, but if fantasising is what's gonna get me through this ordeal, then no harm right?
And so, whenever I find myself too deep in my self-doubt, I watch this movie to feel good. To be able to fantasise a little so as to handle the mundanity of reality.
Watch the movie. Don't always look for some deeper meaning to make yourself feel good about your intelligence. Siimply enjoy it. Sometimes you get so much more without trying to look for it.
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