Sucker Punch (2011) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0978764/
“A young girl is institutionalized by her abusive
stepfather. Retreating to an alternative reality as a coping strategy, she
envisions a plan which will help her escape from the mental facility.(imdb)"
This film is absolutely inspired
and created by a mixture of camera shots through film and animation. The
animation scenes are almost like an up-to-date mission’s challenge or action
hero’s xbox game. The opening scene that introduces the protagonist “Babydoll,”
throughout a couple of slow down over-dramatic dark scenes she tells the story
of how she came to be in the mental asylum for girls. Also, we travel right
through some action packed takes of babydoll and her all-star girl crew kicking
butt and taking names later. After watching the movie 3 times, I can definitely
tell that a male did the directing of this film. Too many Male Gaze scenes, like when Babydoll
is forced to sing and she imagines an alternate world where she and her badass
girl posses are fighting evil invaders. Her journey is fulfilled when her path
to freedom is complete. The film was entertaining but too many made for guys-
action scenes lose track of relating to the main character emotional
triumphant.
The Writer/Director Zack Snyder gave a lot of thought to the
soundtrack of the film. Zack Snyder also the director for “Dawn of the Dead”
& “Watchmen,” musical compositions of each scene where transcending and
accomplish the goal of transitioning between two different parallel realities. As
if we were beside them on the battlefield, there were a lot of electric guitars
sounds being played in the back ground to created empathy of sound and more amps
of feeling during the combat scenes
