Movie Talk: Sucker Punch & the Portrayal of Women in Hollywood
I was a little bummed that my weekend plans to see Sucker Punch with my sister were cancelled due to tornadic weather in our state. But not anymore. After reading the link below I feel I have dodged a huge bullet…
“Sucker Punch suffers from two distinct problems. The first is its complete failure to create any sort of meaningful narrative. To be blunt: This movie is dumb and doesn’t make sense and appears to have been written by sleeping frogs. The second is that it is nothing but the violent sexual exploitation of young women created solely for the profit of the makers and the entrainment of the idle audience and therefore is morally bankrupt beyond understanding.”
“In a movie like this, the audience are aligned with the abusers rather than the abused, the act of watching being an additional violent insult.”
“This is not a realistic depiction of a young woman trying to overcome abuse. It is an animated SI Swimsuit Issue with martial arts and several attempted and successful sexual assaults.”
excerpted from This Movie Made Me Feel Bad to Be Alive: A Review of Sucker Punch
Wow. Basically it seems to me that this film was no more than pretty girls in scant clothing, getting abused and toting big guns. If you saw the movie, do you agree or disagree with the review? I know Hollywood has always been this way … but why do I feel like it’s getting worse? Why are women being raped and becoming sex slaves viewed as entertainment? In all the trailers I ever saw of the film, not once were these bits shown. I assumed it was a film about a girl thrown into a mental hospital with other girls and through the instruction of a female warden they would learn how to travel into some collective dreamworld and find the means to escape the hospital in reality (this I would pay to see). Never did I think it was about being lobotomized, raped, sold as a sex slave and having no personality or plot whatsoever.
I’m disgusted.
