The story of Sucker Punch is one of which is not to be dismissed as a child’s play, a mere video game or some chick flick of an American girlie prank. This is one story that packs a punch! It’s a story about love, lust, betrayal, courage and about making choices. Sounds familiar? Definitely. Sucker Punch is about life, in all its glory. As light as the audience seems to want the movie to be, this is a serious story about our very existence and the world that revolves around our lives.
The story began with a harrowing death of a beloved mother of Babydoll, the main character, whom life almost ended with the passing of her beloved mother, poisoned by her evil stepfather. Her hatred for him just escalated when he tried to rape her soon after the funeral. After failing to get past her retaliation when he tried to rape her, he turned to Babydoll’s baby sister. Her life ended when she accidently killed her sister trying to kill her stepfather with his gun.
In here, many of us could relate as to how life could get worse when we tried to revive it, when we’ve summoned our very last hope to savor whatever’s left in our power to step up our life, just to get deeper into our mess. This is the part when we gave up, when Babydoll gave up and put herself in the hands of the evil monster, her stepfather, whom having no use of her, trashed her in the dungeons of a mental institution ran by the biggest monster, Blue.
In reality, Blue represents this ultimate evil that is our obstacle, a person, a problem, a task; that we thought we could never overcome. As hopeless as we thought our life might then be, there will always be an angel who would eventually remind us that we are not alone. A Madam Gorski, whom in our lives, walk by those who love us, a friend, a confidante who opens windows, draws up the curtains, kicks locked doors, and gives us all the weapons we need to fight our own battles.
In the course of fighting our battles, sometimes we are faced by an even bigger monster, ourselves, our choices in making a stand, who stays and who moves forward? Do we look back to save our own souls or do we make that sacrifice to save our love ones? Sucker Punch unravels the bigger picture when her friends were killed, while collecting the weapons of freedom in a bid to escape from the dungeon of evil. In the end, only Sweet Pea and herself were left to complete their ultimate mission of finding freedom, a total emancipation to lead on with their lives.
Eventually the 2 girls were walled with the unforeseen guards who stood between them and the outside life. This was when the biggest sacrifice was made, the sacrifice that was told by her angel, who promised her of the total freedom. The sacrifice that was herself, to save Sweet Pea and allow her to escape for she was the only one worth living for, the only one who has life waiting for her out in the world. In the end, realizing all this while that the story was never about hers, she sacrificed herself to save one that mattered, Sweet Pea.
How close this story is to our hearts, our lives? Have we asked ourselves enough to walk our lives? Who draws the curtains? Who fights our battles? Who whispers in our ears to help us get up and carry on walking? Who decides why we live and who tells us to shit on lies? Who are our monsters and who are our angels? Why do we fight to survive and what is worth living for? Do have all our weapons? Do we fight for our freedom? So let our angels whisper in our ears, for we need them to teach us how to fight.
Love,
A
