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Sucker Punch
Mar. 27th, 2011 01:55 pmJust got back from seeing it. Trying to sort out impressions... bit hard to break down.
It's not about mental illness, only about institutionalization for same as a mechanism of social control. (I would rather not get into some of the things people were institutionalized for because I have been thinking sort of gloomily about Pennhurst for a couple of days and I have moments when I am holding my mood up by the skin of my teeth.)
Apparently some critics hold that it is hard to follow. I have absolutely no idea how it could be hard to follow. Maybe if you left the theatre to take a phone call every twenty minutes. Maybe. It is not always clear what a dispassionate third-party real-world observer would see happening if they were there, but it's not hard to follow at all.
It is an absolutely beautiful movie. Seriously. They had me at the shot of the asylum in the rain. There's a lot of T&A, although for what it's worth (which I think is something) there's relatively little oh-noes-I-am-helpless-T&A. (Plus an in-character rant fairly early on about how on earth anyone could find brainless meat sexy.) Mind, the power of the protagonist is that she can make men want her, and I trust that can be unpacked.
Also, it's not like most of the movie isn't covered in the trailer, but ( there may be spoilers. )
I will probably pick it up, I think.
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[1] ETA: removed for the weight of the word.
It's not about mental illness, only about institutionalization for same as a mechanism of social control. (I would rather not get into some of the things people were institutionalized for because I have been thinking sort of gloomily about Pennhurst for a couple of days and I have moments when I am holding my mood up by the skin of my teeth.)
Apparently some critics hold that it is hard to follow. I have absolutely no idea how it could be hard to follow. Maybe if you left the theatre to take a phone call every twenty minutes. Maybe. It is not always clear what a dispassionate third-party real-world observer would see happening if they were there, but it's not hard to follow at all.
It is an absolutely beautiful movie. Seriously. They had me at the shot of the asylum in the rain. There's a lot of T&A, although for what it's worth (which I think is something) there's relatively little oh-noes-I-am-helpless-T&A. (Plus an in-character rant fairly early on about how on earth anyone could find brainless meat sexy.) Mind, the power of the protagonist is that she can make men want her, and I trust that can be unpacked.
Also, it's not like most of the movie isn't covered in the trailer, but ( there may be spoilers. )
I will probably pick it up, I think.
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[1] ETA: removed for the weight of the word.
