Random thoughts on SuckerPunch

Going into see SuckerPunch last night I was extremely ecstatic and overwhelmed, I had thought of the movie as almost being a cross between Rule of Rose, and Alice and Wonderland, meets an insane asylum. My expectations was not far off, the movie was full of symbolism and wonder, I think most of the cause for the bad reviews, is because the reviewers seem to be to ignorant themselves to even be able to comprehend the message SuckerPunch offered. My topic however was not intended to enlighten you on the ignorance our society seems to suffer from, but  show some of why the artistic vision of SuckerPunch, was at least to me almost magical. The movie starts out with an extremely well thought out opening offering us both a disconnected since from the main character, as well as a perfect song choice, which I think the lyrics on the surface may seem to fit the movie perfectly, but I dare anyone to go annotate this song in depth, and really see how well it matches up.  Getting back on topic the opening the disconnected feeling from our female hero here is offered to place the movie in a more storybook format, also the disconnection could be used to help emphasize the intended dream like state through out the whole movie. This is where I believe the movie begins to lose people is when BabyDoll's dream turns into yet another dream. This is not like inception at all. To add I have know idea why anyone thought Inception was original. It offered less mind screw than 99% of the anime I have watched, SuckerPunch on the other hand offered plenty of things to entertain the mind and allow to think and even take it down to a more psychological level, of what all the possible and symbolic meanings of BabyDoll's dream could be. In her first dream BabyDoll is I guess a form of Stripper, this is a very I think by most standards a demeaning job to have, while her dream within this dream, is where she is in a position of power. Both of these circumstances are imagined by her, own by which she serves, and where she herself is in control. Just that can offer us so much insight into BabyDoll's inner conflict and struggle. Not to mention the circumstances which BabyDoll goes into the asylum under. It may seemed stereotyped, but the way the ideas are presented are not. Rather than relying on hefty dialogue, the movie revolves mainly around the symbolism through the actions of the characters. I am not referring to the symbolic meaning, however of the five key items, while I think they were essential to the story I do not think their symbolic meaning was as essential, as many of the others. I thought another amazing thing about SuckerPunch, was how they made BabyDoll, turn into almost three different characters allowing her to complete at least three different heroes journey charts. The crossing from the known to the unknown was constant as well as the characters call to action, it was always different, as I said you could almost divide into three completely different people. Sorry this is more of a rant than anything else.....So how did everyone else like the movie? any insights....MY ONLY COMPLAINT WOULD BE THE PG-13 RATING IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN R AND THEY SHOULD NOT HAVE EDITED IT I BELIEVE THIS WOULD HAVE ADDED MORE CHARACTER COMPLEXITY AND EXPLAIN A LOT MORE! I will just buy the unrated blu-ray though...>.> sorry for the rant...and perhaps throughly annotate my thoughts rather than just throwing them around like this...and actually explain what I mean...

I can't really give my Opinion as i haven't seen it yet. But you make it some like it has great character development as well as being deep psychological wise. So you've convinced me to go see it.

Well, I dont really plan on seeing sucker punch, but it maybe ill rent it if its as good as you say it is.

I almost thought about going to see this in theaters but I wasn't sure if it was going to be a huge misfire, so I'll wait for when it comes out on blu-ray.

I have not seen it but I highly doubt Snyder had any deep rooted intention other than giving scantly clad women weapons and making them fight a melting pot of ideas from other movies, like samurais and robots. I hope the movie proves me wrong but it's doubtful it will. People will seek meaning in anything, even when it's not there.