Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Sucker Punch (2011)



A young girl is institutionalized by her abusive stepfather and by retreating to an alternative reality as a coping strategy, she envisions a plan which will help her escape from the mental facility.

Wildy offkilter, but strangely fascinating fantasy, which drifts off into surreal dreamscapes with a videogame aesthetique and reveals a bleak vision of the real world.

Maltin**: "Genuinely weird, broadly played, comic-bookish film is all style, with little substance that isn't laughable. Will it inspire or empower dowtrodden adolescent girls...or will it just make them want to play video games?"


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