Monday, July 4, 2011

Sucker Punch

A movie about a girl.
     Baby Doll is 20 years old. When her mother dies, her stepfather finds out that the rich mother left all her money to her daughters. Furious, Stepfather kills Baby Doll's little sister. Baby Doll threatens him with a gun and shoots him in the arm. The police come.
     Baby Doll watches helplessly as her Stepfather blames the murder on her, and as the tranquilizer seeps into her veins. When she wakes, she is being pushed into an insane asylum. Blue is in charge here, and he is bribed by Stepfather to give Baby Doll a lobotomy. A lobotomy is the removal of a part of her brain. She will not be able to tell the truth to the police, or inherit her mother's money. She will be a vegateble, Emotionless. Selffless. Lifeless, but still living.
      Madame Grovil is the therapist at the asylum. It is required for her to sign a form in order for there to be a lobotomy. Blue forges her signature, and hands it in. The doctor comes five days later to perform the surgery.
     The movie flashes back to day one, where Baby Doll has created an alternate world for the Asylum. Instead of an insane ward, it is a place for Pleasure, where men come to watch them dance and spend the night with any they choose. THere is, of course, a price tag on pleasure. Blue became the director and owner. Madam Grovil becomes the dance instructor.
    Baby Doll is determined to break free. She hatches a plan with the rest of the girls: Blondie, Amber, Sweet Pea, and Rocket. Sweet Pea is Rocket's older sister, and it very protective. When Madame Grovil instructs Baby Doll to dance, she becomes trapped in the music, and her mind goes into a world where there is snow, and an asian temple. She walks into the temple to find an old man. The old man gives her weapons, and tells her that in order to escape the asylum she must find five things: A map, fire, a knife, a key, and something else that is a mystery.
      The girls entrap the owner of each item with Baby Doll's amazing dance, and steal each item one by one. During each dance, Baby Doll goes into a different world, where she is constantly in battle to find something parallel to the object she is looking for in real life. All goes well when they steal the map and lighter, but by than Blue is onto them. He threatens them, but they keep going. While robbing a knife in the kitchen, the music is interrupted by a flow of water, and for a second Baby Doll stops dancing. At that precise momoent Rocket was in the middle of taking the knife. Furious, the cook stabs Rocket, killing her. Sweet Pea is hysterical, and fights the gurds that begin pouring into the kitchen. Blue comes in and yells at the cook, than demands Sweet Pea be locked in the closet.
        That night before the show Blue comes into the dressing room and kills Amber and Blondie to show an "example" He than tries to rape Baby Doll, but she grabs the stolen knife and stabs him. She takes the master key hanging around his neck, and leaves to rescue Sweet Pea from the closet. They make their way out as planned, but there is a group of henchmen outside. Baby Doll realizes that she is the fifth and final thing. She uses herself as a distraction while Sweet Pea escapes, and wakes up in a room where she is supposed to do her job as pleasure-giver with a rich, but kind man. 
         All of a sudden it flahes back to reality. Baby Doll is in the asylum, and the lobotomy has just been performed. Dr Grovil realizes that her signature was forged, and calls the police on Blue. Meanwhile, Blue assaluts Baby Doll, but she is no longer herself. Frustrated, Blue begins to strangle her, but nothing works. Suddenly the police barge in and take Blue away, leaving Baby Doll alone and emotionless, as she would forever be.
         She made the ultamite sacrifice. But because of her sacrifice Sweet Pea was now free. She stole better clothes from someone's drying laundry and boarded a train. The train driver was kind, and let her in without a ticket. She goes away to freedom, which is what they were all fighting for in the first place.

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