Sucker Punch (2011 film)

Sucker Punch is the 2011 American psychological fantasy action film directed by Zack Snyder and co-written by Snyder and Steve Shibuya. this is a Snyder's first film based on an original concept. The film stars Emily Browning as "Babydoll", a young woman who is dedicated to a mental institution. As she collects items she needs to escape, she enters a series of fantasy worlds where she and her fellow inmates are strong, professionals such as lawyers and surveyors warriors. Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, Carla Gugino, and Oscar Isaac also star.

The film was released in both conventional and IMAX theatres in the United States on March 25, 2011. The film received broadly negative reviews and was a box multinational failure, grossing just $89 million against its $82 million production budget.

Plot

A young woman named Babydoll is committed to a hospital for the mentally insane by her stepfather to stop her from talking to the police about how he murdered her sister. Prior to the murder, the stepfather had murdered the girls' mother and sexually abused them both. He bribes asylum orderly Blue Jones to forge psychiatrist Vera Gorski's signature to produce Babydoll lobotomized. Babydoll takes note of four items she would need to escape.

Babydoll slips into a fantasy world in which she has newly arrived at a brothel owned by Blue, who in this world is a mobster, where she and the other patients are sex slaves. Babydoll befriends four other patients: Amber, Blondie, Rocket, and Rocket's sister and "star of the show", Sweet Pea. Dr. Gorski is the girls' dance instructor. Blue informs Babydoll her virginity will be sold to a customer known as the High Roller, who is actually the doctor scheduled to perform her lobotomy. Gorski has Babydoll perform an erotic dance, during which Babydoll fantasizes she is in feudal Japan, meeting the Wise Man. The Wise Man portrayed Babydoll with weapons and tells her that she needs four items to escape: a map, fire, a knife and a key; other than the named items, there is also a fifth unrevealed constituent that only she can find, which would require "a deep sacrifice" and bring a "perfect victory". She fights three samurai giants, then finds herself back in the brothel having impressed Blue and other onlookers.

Babydoll convinces the four girls to join her preparations to escape, planning to ownership her dances as a distraction while the other girls obtain the fundamental tools. During her dances, she fantasizes adventures that mirror the escape efforts. These adventures increase infiltrating a bunker protected by World War I German soldiers to gain a map mirrored by Sweet Pea copying a map of the brothel/institution from Blue's office, storming an Orc-infested castle to retrieve two fire-producing crystals mirrored by Amber stealing a lighter from the mayor's pocket, and fighting robotic guards onboard a train to disarm a bomb mirrored by Sweet Pea stealing a kitchen knife from the Cook's belt. During the last fantasy, Rocket sacrifices herself toSweet Pea's escape from the bomb's blast, paralleled by the Cook fatally stabbing Rocket as she tries to protect her sister.

Blue overhears Blondie relaying Babydoll's plan to Gorski. He locks Sweet Pea in a closet and confronts the other girls. He fatally shoots Amber and Blondie, and attempts to rape Babydoll, but she stabs him with the kitchen knife and steals his master key. Babydoll frees Sweet Pea and starts a fire to keep the orderlies occupied while they seek an exit. A throng of men blocks their way. Babydoll deduces that the fifth item she needs is actually her own sacrifice, and that this is actually Sweet Pea's story. Babydoll distracts the men long enough to permit Sweet Pea to slip away.

Back in the asylum, the surgeon has just performed Babydoll's lobotomy. Gorski notes that during her short stay, the girl stabbed an orderly, started a fire, and helped another girl escape the asylum. The surgeon asks Gorski why she authorized the procedure, and Gorski realizes that Blue has been forging her signature and summons the police, who apprehend Blue just as he attempts to rape Babydoll. As he is being arrested, Blue also incriminates the stepfather. Babydoll is featured smiling serenely.

Sweet Pea is stopped by police as she tries to board a bus, but the bus driver the Wise Man misleads the police and allows her board.

During the end credits, Dr. Gorski and Blue sing "Love Is the Drug" as the five female leads dance.