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Girls surviving the misogynic world - just watched extended version


Just found out that there is an extended version of sucker punch and watched it. I gotta say that extended versions are always better as long as they are from Zack Snyder. One thing I noticed, or felt while watching the movie at this time is that it seems like the story is about girls surviving and fighting against men who treat girls as toys. I can't read all those symbols and meanings and all, but from the beginning(Baby being sent to the asylum by stepdad) to the end(Rocket saying tell mama I love you even though her mom and dad both alive), the "information" is widespread. The men are putting girls in the asylum in first layer of the reality world which gives girls nothing but the pain. The girls are employees of the theatre to give pleasure for the men in the second layer of the world of theatre. Finally, the third layer of the fantasy land is the place where girls fight against men which eventually let girls fight for freedom in the reality. Whether it's reality world or not, all the enemys are men in the movie except the mother dragon. I wonder why it had to be mother, not father dragon. Anyway, I never thought sucker punch is a misogynic movie but I do think it's more like a anti-misogynic movie.

Oh, and one more thing, as Babydoll stated in the end the story was never about her, the story was about Sweetpea and she was the one narrating the story which is why there are characters like wiseman and a little boy soldier being added in the story.

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"I wonder why it had to mother..."

The Terrible Mother.


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That does make sense...

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Actually no. Those girls doesn't exist. Are all projections of her mind, being Sweet Pea the rational one, the one who is there to take care of her sister. When Rocky "dies", BabyDoll sends SweetPea with her mom, and embraces the lobotomy, that's her freedom and cure for her pain that she can't live with. There's a lot of symbolisms in this movie, and we can read the real story of the asylum through her dissociation fantasy in the whorehouse (where she has control) , everything that happens in the whorehouse has a connection to the reality, being her dances the way she dissociates the rapes of the men staff. And even the dances makes her so uncomfortable that she experiences a new dissociation to the epic world.
We know She somehow manages to set free another girl, that could be her redemption, but we never see that girl.
The "angel" she speaks about at the beginning of the movie, is the old man, who guides her to freedom (lobotomy), sacrificing herself, her mind. I hope you could understand, English is not my first language.

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