Critical Analysis on Sucker Punch

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1500 word Film Analysis ‘Sucker Punch’ ‘Sucker Punch’ directed by Zack Snyder and released in 2011. is an action, fantasy film based around a young girls experience in a mental institute, and how she uses her very vivid and explosive imagination to deal with various ordeals and sexual abuse whilst there. The female driven movie is set in three stages of reality. The first being actual reality, which we only see at the beginning and at the end of the film. The second is the beginning of the ‘dreamworld ‘ reality, the burlesque house, and then there is the fantasy realms, where we see the grisly battles and monsters – representing tasks the heroines complete in the burlesque illusion to help secure their escape from the asylum. The main character in the film, Babydoll, has been institutionalised by her abusive stepfather shortly after the death of her mother. In the opening scene, which shortly I will begin to analyse in full detail, we see Babydoll accidently shoot and, presumably murder, her younger sister, by misfiring a gun aimed at her stepfather whist trying to protect her. Horrified at what she has done, she flees, meanwhile her stepfather has rang the police and falsely claimed that Babydoll has murdered her sister in some form of crazed state, - resulting in her institutionalisation and the stepfathers probable inheritance of the contents of his deceased wife’s will, which she had previously left everything to her two daughters. The opening scene begins with the opening credits merging from the point of view of an audience in a theatre. You can clearly see a stage and the curtains rise to reveal the protagonist of the film, ‘Baby Doll’ sat in what appears to be her bedroom, facing away from the audience with her back to the camera. Her room is designed to look like a set, beyond the walls of her room you can see stage props behind, lighting,

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