What is the positioning of this film? What is the moral of his story? What kind of reality hides behind this? This is the only way to understand the director's first original work that has been planned for many years, not just to watch the fun, go home and close your eyes and YY can be a woman's friend one day.
Little tricks
that are no longer rare. Last year, an Inception made Xiao Li's wrinkled face and the 4.5-layer dream travel become the limelight. It seems that Nolan's virtual reality does have the same effect of confusing dreams and reality. Great effect. But what is slightly unpopular is that in the end, everyone just argues over whether the protagonist has returned to reality, and has no time to think about the unobvious philosophical proposition. Earlier in the year, Xiao Li's tightly-knit brows were a continuation of his previous film, Shutter Island by great director Martin Scorsese.
Shutter Island is an adaptation. The original work is known as a novel that Stephen King and Allan Poe can only write by eating LSD. McCarthyism and reflection on human nature are intertwined and tangled. The protagonist Teddy gradually digs and understands himself in the so-called investigation, but finds that he is a mental patient living in an imaginary world. Unlike at the end of the book, the novel blurs what is true and what is false, and does not really determine whether the protagonist is the victim of the conspiracy or the patient. The changes in the movie turned the trend intentions in the original book into an obvious conclusion, finally implementing the patient's identity on Teddy, and laying out clues from the very beginning, which is closely related to the creator's own understanding.
At this point, I have to mention the important surgery in the film: lobotomy forebrain lobectomy.
A lobotomy is a neurosurgical procedure that involves removing the connective tissue of the prefrontal cortex of the brain, sometimes referred to simply as a lobotomy, lobotomy, etc. Leukotomy was mainly used to treat some mental illnesses in the 1930s and 1950s, and it was also the world's first psychosurgery. Including schizophrenia, clinical depression, and other anxiety disorders. It also includes some people who are considered to be neurotic, such as: moody, young and frivolous.
During surgery, the tools required are an awl similar to an ice pick and a hammer, and the patient is given an electric shock instead of drug anesthesia. During the operation, the awl is chiseled into the brain from the orbit through the upper part of the eyeball, destroying the corresponding nerve. The process is quick and, in some cases, can be performed without the need for an operating room. Between 1936 and the 1950s, between 40,000 and 50,000 such operations were performed in the United States.
Now the evaluation of lobotomy is generally negative, mainly because under the simple conditions at that time, the accuracy of the operation on the brain was very low, and the evaluation of the postoperative effect was not objective, credible standard. Moreover, the subjects of surgery often lose their mental impulses after surgery, showing signs similar to dementia and mental retardation. Some literary and film works, such as "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", "1984" describe the lobotomy as a deafening operation. Surveys conducted around 1950 showed that about one-third of cases showed little change after surgery, and another third was worse than before surgery. With the subsequent development of drug therapy and other more precise brain surgical procedures, lobotomies were gradually abandoned after the 1970s or were refined to treat conditions such as epilepsy under more precise conditions.
Regardless of the medical value of this operation, in our film it is merely a symbolic product of willpower deprivation. In Shutter Island and Sucker Punch, both represent inhumane treatment methods with vegetative end points.
Sucker Punch belongs to Zack Snyder's Shutter Island and Inception. Coincidentally, these three similar films have chosen similar release times. From a conceptual point of view, Sucker Punch is a 2-layer crossing on the basis of Shutter Island. What is the name of our kind heroine in the
confusing dream life
, this is an unimportant question. In the fantasy world, she is called Baby Doll. In reality, Baby doll's mother just died, leaving behind Baby doll and her sister, as well as a stepfather who failed to defraud the inheritance. After a rainy night and drunkenness, he wanted to abuse Baby doll and her sister. Baby doll held a gun in an emergency. He rushed to his stepfather, but accidentally killed his sister, so he fell into depression. After that, the stepfather just took this opportunity to send Baby doll to a mental hospital, and gave Blue 2,000, the head of the nurse, to forge Dr. Vera Gorski's signature, so that Baby doll would undergo lobotomy 5 days later. In fact, she ended up sacrificing herself for the freedom of another patient.
The film mainly tells about her escape plan in the past 5 days, but the narrative perspective is not as low as the shots, it is in the fantasy world emphasized by Ms. Gorski.
Ms. Gorski is a permanent physician in this hospital. The treatment method she uses is similar to music therapy. With the cooperation of music, the mentally ill patients are ordered to take the initiative to reproduce the source of their mental stress, in order to solve the patient's psychological problems. And the effect of this treatment on Baby Doll, or what the director wants the audience to experience, is that the real world is projected into the fantasy world. To understand what is going on in the real world, it is necessary to understand the meaning of the fantasy world.
Who is the master of the fantasy world? It may be Baby Doll, after all, the whole story is developed from her, but this setting is not rigid, it is applicable to everyone, and it has no effect on the understanding of the story, because the world views of the two layers of fantasy worlds are unified. . In the first world, Baby Doll is a poor orphan who was sent by the evil godfather to a high-level club to be exchanged for money, while Blue has become a ballroom owner with more power than Mrs. Gorski, the dance teacher. This is diametrically opposed to the real world. In the real world, a nurse does not have a gun, and can only rely on imitating signatures to achieve despicable purposes, bullying female patients wantonly behind their backs. And because of this, Baby Doll, one of the female patients, thinks that Blue is far more important to her than Ms. Gorski.
The second layer of the world appears 4 times, all of which correspond to the dance scenes on the first layer, and the connection between the dance scenes and reality will be mentioned later. The first time is Baby Doll killing three Japanese samurai, the second time is 5 people fighting Nazi zombies, the third time is Dragon Quest, and the fourth time is the female version of the Hurt Locker. These four layers seem to be imaginative, but they also have an extraordinary meaning.
The Painful Life of Kabuki
Most of the time in the film is unfolded in the first layer of the world. The division between this world and the real world is sometimes clear and sometimes blurred. The clear place is the extravagant club and its supporting facilities, and the blurred place is near the chef, corridors and collective dormitories. . And there is an excellent way to judge whether it is in the real world, just like Cobb's ring, the headband on Baby Doll's head has never appeared in the real world, and all the plot clues related to it are the reflection of the fantasy world rather than real world events.
What is the composition of the real world? Throwing away a large part of the middle, the real world picture can actually be connected: from the beginning to entering the mental hospital, in the background music, I saw the map, lighter, knife, key, and then I was sent to the operating chair. At this point, it quickly changed to Sweet Pea's perspective. And we go directly to the paragraph where the High Roller broke the Baby Doll, and we find that it was a one-stop operation, and then Ms. Gorski found the forged signature, and again saw the missing lighter, the knife was burnt, the cabinet was stabbed. Blue, just when he was about to do something wrong again (!!), Ms. Gorski took the police to arrest him, and the two were judged on their status in reality.
In the warm-toned world of clubs, there's an absolute focus on selling color. Sweet Pea's own claim that it offers special services outside of dance, which blurs the contrast between the act of dancing in reality. Since there is a erotic plot in the fantasy layer, have Baby Doll and a group of patients been sexually assaulted in the real world?
The answer is yes. Not only the dialogue between Blue and the henchmen at the end, but also hinted more or less in other parts of the film. Does anyone really get carried away watching a raw dance? Isn't it because Baby Doll shows a certain sexual behavior in music therapy that is different from other female patients that makes all kinds of men enjoy it? That's why only Baby Doll's dance can fascinate the nurses, and no one else can, because in the real world, Baby Doll gave other patients time to copy maps and steal lighters through devotion. As well as pulling the knife off that taut belt on the chef.
Several other characters appear in this story: Sweet Pea, Rocket, Blondie, Amber. These people correspond to the patients she has seen in the real world, and they are not in a one-to-one relationship. These people are likely to be the split personalities of Baby Doll and Sweet Pea.
With the exception of Sweet Pea, who was locked up, several others in the fantasy world were killed by Blue and the chef. If these people died in the real world, wouldn't Ms. Gorski not know? Merely forging a signature is enough to get arrested, not to mention murder. In the actual escape plan, there were even only two people involved, two mental patients who were normal people under a certain personality: Sweet Pea thought he was here to protect Rocket who was killed by the chef, and Baby Doll thought he was being sent away. The orphans who came in, Blondie and Amber were relatively unimportant. They were killed by Blue because of a potential whistleblower against Mrs. Gorski, and they were probably beaten in reality. Because we said when we first decided to escape, We're already dead. Rocket and the others are not really "alive" people.
So, out of sight of Ms. Gorski and the audience, what was happening was that a gang of caregivers secretly carried out violent rule against mentally ill patients, accompanied by sexual assault, and they accepted bribes to perform brutal, unauthorized operations on patients.
Pseudo-climax in gunfire The
idea that dancing is a reflection of sexuality is not just a piece of reasoning. In the second layer of events, let's take a look at the hidden information:
Snow Mountain Temple vs. Three Samurai: Three armored warriors several meters tall attacked Baby Doll with long-knife machine guns. long knife. machine gun. It was the most obvious sexual innuendo: Baby Doll fought and defeated the enemy as hard as he could, and only one person broke into the temple symbolizing the female part, and the other two collapsed in the doorway. I wouldn't be surprised if someone said Zack Snyder was a feminist, because in the passages that follow, this tendency is more evident.
Fighting zombies to seize the map: huge and long airships that do not look like condom fly in the sky. After the soldiers are killed, white steam is ejected. After the soldiers take off their masks, they are extremely ugly. Several women stabbed and killed with left and right, chopped all the enemies into pieces, and finally rode to the sky in the ellipsoid rabbit machine.
Orcs add fire dragon to fight planes: Corresponding to the part of stealing lighters, there is only one dragon-shaped pattern in reality, and the dragon-shaped pattern is highlighted on the first layer, and the second layer directly becomes a real dragon. Don't say what the plane means, just think about the in-flight refueling in the opening scene of Dr. Strangelove. Not to mention that several women have chopped off the heads of two dragons, big and small. The long necks and fire-breathing heads are a complete tribute to women's challenges to male power.
The Women's Bomb Squad: A train sprinting on the long, narrow tracks towards the metropolis. Several women went down, wielding knives and guns all the way to kill countless robots with sperm heads (!!), and successfully came to the so-called circular bomb. They thought that the explosion crisis (or pregnancy crisis?) was resolved, but A bug that slipped through the net hit the wall switch, and eventually took a life, and did not prevent the explosion.
Well, I really don't know how to explain it if these violent, passionate episodes both happen during the first dance and don't refer to actual behavior.
Who else escaped from Ascension?
Compared with the suspected words Mt.Pleasant printed on the key, the outrageous roadside sign Paradise in the last paragraph is more intimate. In the final escape sequence, it actually takes place in the Club world rather than the real world, because at this time Baby Doll is clearly wearing a dance suit with a blue headband. The one who escaped was Sweet Pea, the real collaborator. What Baby Doll chose at this time was not to dance again, but to fight bravely to buy time for her companions. This was her awakening to her own strength, not just as an attachment.
Since Sweet Pea is in a fantasy world at this time, stealing clothes and getting into the car have a relationship, which shows that the entire fantasy world is an imaginary, and the real escape is far from simple. In reality, it is completely unclear what happened. The process, in the imagination, Sweet Pea got the help of the same old man in the second-level fantasy, and finally left.
In the real world, it has not been confirmed who the patient who ran out was. Baby Doll, who was willing to undergo surgery, finally chose to hand over the right of freedom to her, although this person should have the same mental illness as Baby Doll: Ms. Gorski, as a professional physician, her judgment conclusion is worthy of trust of.
The reluctant ending is full of
steampunk scenes, and the decision to not be free, I would rather die. The final Sweet pea narration goes like this: Who decides why we live? And what we'll die to defend. Who trains us? And who holds the key to set us free? It's you. You have all the weapons you need. Now fight!
Throughout the whole film, the dark passages hidden in it are the main theme of the film. The reason why Zack Snyder was chosen by Nolan as the director of the new version of Superman may be precisely because the two have the same creative desire for dark tones. As Zack Snyder's first photorealistic film, I hope he can learn a thing or two from Nolan, broaden and improve his own style standards, and make a great contribution to DC and WB's Marvel counterattack.
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