seriously, suckerpunch 4ever.

Mar 25, 2011 14:19

you know what i just realized? there's no love story in suckerpunch. at no point is any woman in the movie in love with any man in the movie. there isnt some 'love conquers all!' or 'love validates who you are' storyline. it was strictly men as villains, women as saviours. and, awesomely, they were self-saviours and sister-saviours. it was all ( Read more... )

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recommendation March 26 2011, 19:40:00 UTC
i totally hear you. i can def see it that way. i read it, not as an excuse for brothel antics, but rather, as Babydoll's view of what the asylum was like. you can read into the end that maybe the girls are being abused by the orderlies, with Blue as the ring leader, so the brothel stuff was all just a stylized (read: maybe less bleak?) way to 'talk' about that without revealing it ( ... )

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recommendation March 28 2011, 02:50:13 UTC
oh, yeah, totally. mega agree.

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