Joined: Jul 30, 2009
Posts: 223
Location: Chesapeake, VA.
This may help spread light into the mind of Tracer. Though you may agree or disagree please understand my intent is neither and is irrelevant to me. Not to be rude to others but to enlighten in the face of so many mindless or over explained poor movies out now. This is merely my soap box and is not intended to insult anyone (well only the public reviewers of the film).
I watched Sucker Punch tonight and I was amazed....awed.....overwhelmed but what I saw, heard and felt. The reviews say that this movie made no sense, that it had no direction and no real explanation. I must say that the reviewers are sadly mistaken. But it does show that we Americans are lazy. We feel entitled to an answer to each movie. Justification to every action though our narrow minds cannot comprehend the subtleties of music and imagery without dialogue explaining what we should already be feeling, seeing, hearing. I watched this movie with my wife as mindless fun after a 14 hour day and we both found that this is more than it seems. This is not mindless gratuitous sexy women running around killing things. It is so much more. For starters I watch movies in a way others don't. I hear with my eyes, I see with my ears, I feel with my heart, and I bring this together with a sharp mind for looking under the surface. When was the last time you listened to the words of a song in the background of a movie and understood it as part of the dialog? When was the last time you let your imagination create your experience, an experience so very unique to you that to explain this to another would be hopeless. This is the essences of Sucker Punch. If you take the time to use your ears for seeing and your eyes for hearing and letting that beautiful mind of yours to create the stage for something more then even the writer envisioned then you can truly say that your mind is open and not crushed by the necessity for full explanation. These are the traits that make books so incredible. This is why Japan has some of the best horror/suspense films to date. Yes we are mostly men over 30 but did we forget along the way that we are human? That we can do and feel as we wish and no one, I repeat no one, can take this from us. Let go of the pride a moment to stop and think, listen, and feel in ways that society says we should not. That is when Sucker Punch lives up to it's name and hits you with a blast of immense clarity that "everything is OK in spite of appearances" even in the face of sacrifice.
So as I step down from my soap box and meander away I only ask that you "hear" what was said without pride or prejudice. Leaving you with this as I stroll away. "Who honors those we love with the very life we live? Who sends monsters to kill us, and at the same time sings that we'll never die? Who teaches us what's real, and how to laugh at lies? Who decides why we live, and what we'll die to defend? Who chains us, and who holds the key to set us free? It's you. You have all the weapons you need. Now fight!"
Tracer
I watched Sucker Punch tonight and I was amazed....awed.....overwhelmed but what I saw, heard and felt. The reviews say that this movie made no sense, that it had no direction and no real explanation. I must say that the reviewers are sadly mistaken. But it does show that we Americans are lazy. We feel entitled to an answer to each movie. Justification to every action though our narrow minds cannot comprehend the subtleties of music and imagery without dialogue explaining what we should already be feeling, seeing, hearing. I watched this movie with my wife as mindless fun after a 14 hour day and we both found that this is more than it seems. This is not mindless gratuitous sexy women running around killing things. It is so much more. For starters I watch movies in a way others don't. I hear with my eyes, I see with my ears, I feel with my heart, and I bring this together with a sharp mind for looking under the surface. When was the last time you listened to the words of a song in the background of a movie and understood it as part of the dialog? When was the last time you let your imagination create your experience, an experience so very unique to you that to explain this to another would be hopeless. This is the essences of Sucker Punch. If you take the time to use your ears for seeing and your eyes for hearing and letting that beautiful mind of yours to create the stage for something more then even the writer envisioned then you can truly say that your mind is open and not crushed by the necessity for full explanation. These are the traits that make books so incredible. This is why Japan has some of the best horror/suspense films to date. Yes we are mostly men over 30 but did we forget along the way that we are human? That we can do and feel as we wish and no one, I repeat no one, can take this from us. Let go of the pride a moment to stop and think, listen, and feel in ways that society says we should not. That is when Sucker Punch lives up to it's name and hits you with a blast of immense clarity that "everything is OK in spite of appearances" even in the face of sacrifice.
So as I step down from my soap box and meander away I only ask that you "hear" what was said without pride or prejudice. Leaving you with this as I stroll away. "Who honors those we love with the very life we live? Who sends monsters to kill us, and at the same time sings that we'll never die? Who teaches us what's real, and how to laugh at lies? Who decides why we live, and what we'll die to defend? Who chains us, and who holds the key to set us free? It's you. You have all the weapons you need. Now fight!"
Tracer
