Sucker Punch (Zack Snyder, 2011)

 

This is without a doubt a highly underrated movie and most certainly Zack Snyder's best moment. The movie quite strange and weird as it is, produces an effect on the spectator that is like flying high on weed. The action and fantasy is been mixed with a psychological semi-dramatic element and the outcome is a film that should get an award for bringing contradictory things together. There is depth and psychological torment in the movie, elements that we are not used in seeing in this type of movies. The movie has a highly alluring film quality, the shooting and the tone walk a road that gets most charming to the spectator and the film has a truly penetrating and imaginative, superb atmosphere. It's at some moments like a a very dark fairy tale and others like an acid-trip drama. There is no doubt that you understand why this movie was panned. People are not used in experimentations. When they want an action-fantasy movie they want it pure. When someone puts weird elements in there it confuses them. And so you have a movie that is both gripping and captivating and yet a film that passed like nothing happened, being the most obscure film in Zack Snyder's filmography. I think that this is a movie that you should choose a day that rains hard and your emotions are somehow flying from here to there. I assure that the story of the movie and the psychological impact that the film will have on you is going to be something to remember. Sucker Punch is one of the most interesting films of the 2010s and it is real pity that was treated so harshly. On the other hand though, this is definitely a film that obscurity suits it, it's one of the creations that have few lovers, it's one of the creations that need courage, imagination and a big heart in order to fully communicate with the artistic outcome. A real cinematic trip that produces you the effect of being high on substances while you are totally sober. Take it as a trip and don't think anything else. Just swallow it. It's good for your psychological health.