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Sucker Punch
2011-04-26 16:37I saw Sucker Punch last night for the second time. It got terrible reviews, but I thought it was very good. Tim Martain gets it.
( Some spoilers ... )
One reviewer described Sucker Punch as "what you'd get if you mixed Mulholland Drive, Showgirls and Tomb Raider" but for me the obvious comparison was with Terry Gilliam's 'Brazil' (and Zack Snyder said as much). It's not just the surreal, pan-twentieth-century ambience that Sucker Punch shares with that movie (and with 'Grind House'), or the obvious nod to the final scene; it's the combination of a dystopian (but all-too-real) world with the mind's power to escape. What Sucker Punch adds to that, though, is the power of the imagination and the subconscious to provide us with the clues and the courage to fight and change the reality.
( Some spoilers ... )
One reviewer described Sucker Punch as "what you'd get if you mixed Mulholland Drive, Showgirls and Tomb Raider" but for me the obvious comparison was with Terry Gilliam's 'Brazil' (and Zack Snyder said as much). It's not just the surreal, pan-twentieth-century ambience that Sucker Punch shares with that movie (and with 'Grind House'), or the obvious nod to the final scene; it's the combination of a dystopian (but all-too-real) world with the mind's power to escape. What Sucker Punch adds to that, though, is the power of the imagination and the subconscious to provide us with the clues and the courage to fight and change the reality.
