Liz 'Sucker Punch' cocktail Martian unclassifiable ...
Get into a shaker with five young, beautiful and sexy actresses. Add a story strange, of those who have a history within history, playing with reality and fiction. Conjúguese with a festival of special effects and the disappearance of the camera and the real scenario as a filming location. Mix with how to conduct more colorful, and cumulative levels pintoriesca imaginable. And it would shake well as Zack Snyder, director
300 , Watchmen
and Ga'Hoole. The legend of the Guardians . What goes? A Martian cocktail, strange and unclassifiable called Sucker Punch
. And, eye, because that does not mean it's bad at all. But it is a film so unusual, so different in their everyday life, so extreme in public areas, it is difficult to define whether it has seen a show in any way revolutionary, an entertaining film that will delight of the geeks or chaos where there is no catch. At least rule out the latter possibility, so that evil can not be the bottom line.
After a brief introduction to voice-overs, Sucker Punch
begins with a spectacular and overwhelming silent sequence. Overwhelming in the visual and sound (the whole film is full of very lively versions of songs, some of them well known). It no doubt recognizes the style of Snyder, who made 300
innovative piece of action cinema in the U.S. and did pass the daunting and impossible task of adapting Watchmen
to the movies. It is not unreasonable to say that this sequence, and an unusual splendid assembly rate is the best of the film, although some visual findings seem taken from their previous work. And that's the risk that arises Snyder from the beginning, repeated. Is a director who charge so much ink on the visual effect in the slow motions, in turns the camera impossible. With
Sucker Punch is not a repeat, is that it takes that obsession to an extreme further away from the canons classics. But, and here's the surprise, does not produce the usual action movie dizziness. His choreography (and why they work their slow motions) can continue.
In the preface, Snyder introduces us to the character of the function (you sure?), A 20 year old with no name (a soda Emily Browning) who ends up locked in a mental hospital by her stepfather after the death of his mother and murder of her little sister, you will be charged to murder her. In the hospital is where the mix between reality and fiction, because there she recreates the power of your imagination a different world, an escape, an escape. And that world, in turn, has another recess imagination within the mind of the girl, now dubbed Baby Doll (doll in Castilian). In the hospital befriend other four girls, their names such as in fiction costumes created for her: Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish, perhaps the most complete of the five as an actress), Rocket (Jena Malone), Blondie (Vanessa Hudgens, perhaps the most popular High School Musical
) and Amber ( Jaime Chung). There are five recognizable faces in small roles before but none as popular enough to trigger the budget with their salaries.
300
If fetishism was one hundred percent male, here it is female, and is exploited in every possible way, from the costumes to the planning of the scenes. The fact is that they are the main attraction of the film if one approaches it from the perspective more adolescent. Sexy girls, weapons of all kinds, special effects, impossible creatures and a fantasy story. The dream of every geek teenager. How do you convince other audiences that this film is more than that? Perhaps considering that this film can play a key role in understanding, in the future, how did the transition between real and virtual scenarios. Certainly there are films that have used more green screen and special effects
Sucker Punch. But this film gives a sense of change and progress. What it offers is the disappearance not only of the stage and sets, but the camera understood as the final limit of what the director wants to grasp. Is a constant challenge to the traditional way of shooting, is overwhelming and undisturbed continuous rotation of the camera, supported by the slowdown of the images and the convenience of the group of leading ladies with their role in this festival visual. To
package in history, Snyder draws on Scott Glenn (who after years gone already seen in
Secretariat and W. ; is great news his return) for the role of guidance in this kind of adventure game film, Carla Gugino (Sin City
and Watchmen
), Oscar Isaac (an interesting side increasingly seen
of Lies , Robin Hood
or
Agora) and in a brief role Jon Hamm (star of Mad Men
that after
The Town still looking side to enable it to jump to the movies). They bear the double (or triple) the film's narrative structure devised by Snyder, who writes in his first original script (some say it is based very loosely on
Alice in Wonderland , Lewis Carrol, but providing a touch excessive and uncontrolled wild action.) The script, if anything, surprises more than expected. Falls much pace after the prologue, but quickly back to offer a frenetic second hour. In its last section offers a few surprises as preventing preivisible catolog. In fact, if something is not
Sucker Punch is predictable, although its development is repetititvo sometime. "Contradiction? No doubt. But it works.
Sucker Punch is a Martian. Do not expect a serious movie, formal or feet on the ground. Is just the opposite of that approach. We are looking to reach the viewer through a visual delirium unclassifiable, which fit babes with big cleavage and miniskirts through the trenches of any battle of the First World War, samurai swords to meet a dragon and impossible-looking androids who want to blow up a futuristic city, all anchored in a dramatic story that is realistic dye that gives beginning of the film. With just a handful of films and about to take over the Superman films regfreso the hand of a script and production of Christopher Nolan (can be two opposite approaches a priori as yours? I have curious to see what results from their Union ...), Zack Snyder is making a hole as a renovator of fantasy action and an innovator in the use of the camera to create wrappers virtual. And besides,
Sucker Punch entertains. In case you had not been clear.