@Yung ANcient One said:
@NlGHTCRAWLER: Could you please enlighten me on how it was deeper than it leads to be, cuz I didn't get it. (+)
(Dude I literally wrote you a very detailed and analyzed description of what Sucker Punch really was, but accidentally copied and then deleted it.. -__-)
Ok...
The girls live in 3 worlds.
1 Is reality: This is the world inside the walls of the mental asylum. The girls are physically and mentally tortured here. The point of their suffering is to create a new sub-conscious fantasy world brought out by extreme acts of abuse such as rape, beatings, drugs electroshock therapy, etc. Baby Doll is brought here after she kills her sister and is placed here by her stepfather because not only does he get rid of her but he is payed by the US government to let them experiment on his stepdaughter.
(Bear with me. I know how it sounds, but it will all make sense in the end, I promise.)
2 The Cabaret. This is the world that is mixed and mangled into the real world. The lines of reality are blurred here. This is the place the girl's go to when they are being abused and this is where they prefer to be. They dance for men and in some way feel in charge of their surroundings and actions. Here they choose to please their handlers.. here they are free in the sense that they control their actions. The High Roller here is actually Baby Doll's future murderer who is going to give her a lobotomy in a few days. There is no man coming to "claim" her, there is only her imminent doom. Unable to accept this, she plans her escape. While she "dances" (AKA pleases her handlers), her friends venture into the cabaret and look for items that will help them escape. Little do they know is that there is NO escape. They are not free in some nightclub... they are in tiny rooms chained to the floor, slowly drifting into madness. During these phases of abuse, the girls as well as Baby Doll create a third layer for themselves.
3 The world of magic: Here they fight dragons and defuse future tech bombs and fight Nazi zombies. They use this world to completely free themselves. Here they are not only in control of their bodies and their actions, they are in control of everything else. They can do this, because here there is no wrong for them. Only self created dreams and wonders to keep themselves from experiencing the pain of their physical bodies and minds. Here is where they can never be hurt again. This is what the handlers at the asylum want. They want their prisoners to free themselves.... they want them to live in his zombie state. This is called Project: MK Ultra and it did exist in the 1950's (which the movie takes place in). The US Government would use mental asylums and hospitals to kidnap young children to do these things to them. A lot of the symbols in this movie were actually used as triggers in these experiments. White rabbits, castles, sunsets.. all used to make the children fall into this permanent dreamy slumber. These things did in fact happen (there is a crap load of documented proof of MK Ultra. Many people who survived their experiments even SUCCESSFULLY sued the government over the things that were done to them. The entire movie is extremely tragic and the ending of it is the worst part because Sweet Pea didn't escape. She was the only one out of all of the girls to successfully enter into her subconscious and live happily ever after. The rest died of their abuse before they could "escape" with the exception of Baby Doll who was lobotomized (which was another experiment used in the 50's.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKULTRA
Here are the facts of MK Ultra.
http://vigilantcitizen.com/moviesandtv/sucker-punch-or-how-to-make-monarch-mind-control-sexy-7-2/
Here is a great analysis on the movie.. but this site is kind of COO COO CA CHOO so I wouldn't visit it again after reading this.
Once you read these and watch the movie again you will appreciate it for what it is. I'm not saying that this stuff is GREAT or anything like that, I just find it really interesting.
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