Now almost everyone thinks that Sucker Punch is an eye-sore and a snoozer of a movie, and it’s really the movie viewers who are at the receiving end of a cheap shot. However, we cannot deny the fact there are stuffs in it that will make our brain tick. Subject matters that are open for interpretation, open for debate. Here are some of them that really make my head turn into the Energizer bunny:
1. In Baby Doll’s imagination of a prostitution den, she dances while her friends get the items they need. In the real world, where they are confined to a mental institution, how do they get these items? For example, when they are going to get the map, Sweet Pea manages to get inside Blue’s office. I don’t think this is possible in the real world since the girls are always escorted while they walk through the hallways. The only privacy they get is when they are in Dr. Gorski’s office, sleeping room, and social room.
2. When Baby Doll dances, we don’t see her actual performance, rather her imagination being an action hero in a fantasy world. What exactly is her dance routine? We only saw that it starts with her swaying standing up, and then it ends where she’s all sweaty and breathless and still standing. Sweet Pea described it as moaning and gyrating, so does it mean she’s just playing with herself? I don’t think so because even the girls are impressed.
3. Again, when Baby Doll dances, what does she do in the real world to distract the people so her friends can get the items? Does she dance as well? Highly unlikely. They are mental patients so it would be really disturbing if they try to seduce someone. Besides, Dr. Gorski most probably would not allow such behavior.
4. The items they need to escape, are they literally just items or are there deeper meanings behind each item? In the movie, they did use the actual items to escape the prostitution house, but is that all? Like when they are stealing the map, is there a connection when the Wiseman said “If you don’t stand for something, you’d fall for anything”?
5. The fantasy world imagined by Baby Doll when she dances, is it significant to her situation? To the story? Or are they just random thoughts from Zack Snyder? Would it make a difference to the story if instead of fighting zombie soldiers in a war, they are fighting aliens inside a galactic space station?
6. When Baby Doll fired the gun to her stepfather, she missed and hit the light bulb and a pipe. There is a hole in the pipe, so it means the bullet went through the pipe. So how did her little sister died if the bullet ended up in the pipe and not in the body?
There! These are the stuffs that kept coming back to me whenever I think of Sucker Punch’s story. I’m sure there are more. So what do you think?
