SUCKER PUNCH

On today's post, I've decided to review the latest movie that I saw in theatres last Friday. It's the action-meets-fantasy film: Sucker Punch

What it is about :

Sucker Punch is a 2011 action-fantasy thriller film about the fantasies of a young woman who is committed to a mental institution.

Story so far :

A 20-year old girl nicknamed "babydoll"  is institutionalized by her stepfather at the Lennox House for the Mentally Insane after she is blamed for the death of her younger sister. Blue Jones , who is the asylum's orderly, is bribedby Babydoll's stepfather into faking the signature of the asylum's psychiatrist to have Babydoll lobotomized so she can neither inform the authorities of what really happened nor reclaim her recently deceased mother's fortune.

As she enters the institution, she notices details of its layout and security.


In the five days before the surgeon  arrives, Babydoll retreats to a fantasy world in which she is a newly-arrived virgin in a brothel owned by the mob. She befriends four other dancers—Amber , blondie, sweet pea and rocket.  Dr. Gorski appears here as the girls' dance instructor and tells Babydoll that her virginity will be sold to a client known as "The High Roller" who will be arriving in five days.

Madam Gorski forces Babydoll to perform an erotic dance. While she dances , she fantasizes an adventure in feudal japan , where she meets a wise man who tells her that she can escape if she collects five items: a map, fire, a knife, a key and a fifth, unrevealed item that would require "great sacrifice". He gives her a sword and a gun, instructing her to fight three demon samurai, which she defeats . Back in brothel, the dance is successful in she succees in impressing the mobster boss,blue.

Inspired by the Wise Man, Babydoll convinces her friends to prepare an escape. During subsequent dances, she imagines adventurous events that succeeds the efforts of her friends in obtaining the items required to escape . In the last episode, Rocket sacrifices herself to save her sister and dies when the bomb detonates. This is paralleled in the brothel fantasy, where the cook attempts to stab Sweet Pea as she steals a knife and Rocket is killed, who has jumped in to save her sister.

Soon Blue realizes that the girls are planning something and hears Blondie telling Babydoll's plan to Madam Gorski.  He locks Sweet Pea in a utility closet for her attempted theft for a knife and later takes the 3 girls , amber,blondie and babydoll backstage. Then he shoots amber and blondie and gives an example to babydoll for what can happen to her .He tries to rape Babydoll, but she stabs him with the knife .Then she frees sweet pea using Blue's master key. She and Sweet Pea start a fire with the stolen lighter so that, as a result of the fire alarm, the institution's doors unlock. They sneak out but their final exit is blocked by hoodlums.

Babydoll decides that the fifth item is herself and that her sacrifice is needed to complete Sweet Pea's story. She distracts the guards, allowing Sweet Pea to escape. The scene then cuts back to the asylum in which the surgeon has just performed the ice pick lobotomy. He is perturbed by her final expression and starts to question Dr. Gorski. They realize that Blue has forged the signature and he is apprehended as he is assaulting Babydoll in her cell while she remains catatonic.

Sweet Pea has escaped to a bus station but is stopped by suspicious police as she boards a bus. The bus driver—revealed to be the Wise Man who had helped the girls in their adventures—misleads the police and allows Sweet Pea to board without a ticket. Before pulling away, he tells her that she still "has a long way to go".

My reaction after i watched the movie :

Frankly speaking, as the movie started i was damn excited about it because it was my choice. Me , my lil sis and my uncle went to watch it in theatre. Well , after half-an-hour , my uncle and lil sister started blaming me for such a bad choice. actually it wasn't their fault. Since it was a fantsasy thriller , so it was a bit difficult to understand. means even with me was happening so i couldn't answer them but still i was liking it

Actually Sucker Punch is an extremely difficult film to, categorize, summarize or analize ,especially by a layperson such as myself .

But still ,even i was failed to analize but the main message which I recieved and which badly inspired me was-

    " In whichever conditions we are,we need to fight to win the battle . We should never depend on our fate because it is something which we make ourselves. , its not readymade ."

In hindi there's a proverb-" लड़ो या मरो ".

So keep fighting , the success is all yours !!!

-TANJUL