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Arrival Lyrics by Zack Snyder

Sucker Punch: The Art of the Film

2011

The film is set in the 1960s, when places like Lennox House existed to shut away women who didn't conform to the expectations society had set for them. Many were truly mentally ill, but others were simply too outspoken, too promiscuous, or too uncontrollable. Any excuse was used to call them crazy and lock them up rather than deal with them. Lobotomies, which often had the effect of turning intractable patients into virtual zombies, were still being carried out in the institutions of the time; the majority of these were performed on women. Lennox House itself is a commentary on certain dark aspects of that era: it’s a bleak, callous, and rundown place, and although some pioneers are attempting new, more humanitarian forms of therapy, male dominance and corruption seem to have the upper hand. The most significant space in the asylum is a large hall we term the gymnasium, but which serves the girls as a social center, and more importantly, as a theater. There are many images and architectural elements here that will turn up again later in Babydoll's fantasies. With a proscenium surmounted by an angelic face resembling Babydoll's own and sunlight streaming down through grimy windows, it’s easy to see why Rick Carter has called it, "a church to eternal innocence." It is a portal of the imagination where we literally peel back the wallpaper to increase the theatricality a hundredfold.
In Babydoll's mind the space is transformed into the Paradise Theater, where girls dance in public before clients select them for more private services. It is the colorful center of the gaudy brothel of which Blue is the undisputed overlord. The girls are still prisoners, but at least here they are the main attraction. At least here they have some worth. And just perhaps, here is where they might find the tools to fight back.
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