The Ending Of Sucker Punch Finally Explained
video description
Date: 2020-07-14
Related videos
Comments and reviews: 9
Freeden
This is why the film didn't work and why people hated it. Snyder tried to get all intellectual while still delivering awesome thrills. The problem is, Snyder doesn't know HOW to deliver the kind of intellectual film he wanted. He clearly had a story to tell here, but he tells it so poorly that it just doesn't even matter, especially when you compare it to the films more visceral moments, which is what most people went to go see it for. Sure, pseudo-intellectuals may find the film has far deeper meaning and that people simply don't get it, but most people aren't going to the movies to try and interpret what the director has taken from their head and thrown on screen. Had this been a more straight forward story that used symbolism to express deeper ideas, that would have been fine. But Snyder wanted to toy with his audience, so he creates a confused, open ended mess and leaves the audience to try and figure out what he's trying to say. It was nice to see Snyder attempt a film that was wholly original, but it's probably good he's stuck to adaptations.
reply
This is why the film didn't work and why people hated it. Snyder tried to get all intellectual while still delivering awesome thrills. The problem is, Snyder doesn't know HOW to deliver the kind of intellectual film he wanted. He clearly had a story to tell here, but he tells it so poorly that it just doesn't even matter, especially when you compare it to the films more visceral moments, which is what most people went to go see it for. Sure, pseudo-intellectuals may find the film has far deeper meaning and that people simply don't get it, but most people aren't going to the movies to try and interpret what the director has taken from their head and thrown on screen. Had this been a more straight forward story that used symbolism to express deeper ideas, that would have been fine. But Snyder wanted to toy with his audience, so he creates a confused, open ended mess and leaves the audience to try and figure out what he's trying to say. It was nice to see Snyder attempt a film that was wholly original, but it's probably good he's stuck to adaptations.
reply
Shelly
This story is absolutely about SweetPea. She is the star, she is the one disassociating and creating the plot in her head. As a way of coming to terms with what she did, and even turns her sister's death into a form of sacrifice on Rocket's end. I'd say that if you don't get it, or you think its about Babydoll, watch the extended version. The ending is SOOOOO much better, and very good at explaining everything. Not to mention, one huge clue that everything is in Sweet Peas head, is the boy she sees on the bus right before she gets on. He was the same young man she saw in the trenches of the nazi zombie fight scene. Why would that same boy be getting on the bus with her, if the story was about Babydoll? Everything is happening in Sweet Peas head. It's all her disassociation and then the lobotomy. Such a great movie.
reply
This story is absolutely about SweetPea. She is the star, she is the one disassociating and creating the plot in her head. As a way of coming to terms with what she did, and even turns her sister's death into a form of sacrifice on Rocket's end. I'd say that if you don't get it, or you think its about Babydoll, watch the extended version. The ending is SOOOOO much better, and very good at explaining everything. Not to mention, one huge clue that everything is in Sweet Peas head, is the boy she sees on the bus right before she gets on. He was the same young man she saw in the trenches of the nazi zombie fight scene. Why would that same boy be getting on the bus with her, if the story was about Babydoll? Everything is happening in Sweet Peas head. It's all her disassociation and then the lobotomy. Such a great movie.
reply
L.
I think your explanation falls short of what was really happening in that it was Sweet Pea's own imagination which was the subject of the whole movie. Virtually all the major players in the movie were a part of her own fantasy. This movies was a fantasy with deeper fantasies within it. Was Sweet Pea lobotomized? Maybe or maybe not. Did she finally find her own personal freedom? It would seem so! With the help of the Wise Man in her fantasy, she retreated into her own internal freedom and safety zone, where she could never be touched by anybody again. What was the meaning of Baby Doll being lobotomized. It was Sweet Peas way of giving freedom to the most prominently helpful character in her fantasies, meanwhile at the same time punishing her fantasized antagonists! She was just wrapping up loose ends!
reply
I think your explanation falls short of what was really happening in that it was Sweet Pea's own imagination which was the subject of the whole movie. Virtually all the major players in the movie were a part of her own fantasy. This movies was a fantasy with deeper fantasies within it. Was Sweet Pea lobotomized? Maybe or maybe not. Did she finally find her own personal freedom? It would seem so! With the help of the Wise Man in her fantasy, she retreated into her own internal freedom and safety zone, where she could never be touched by anybody again. What was the meaning of Baby Doll being lobotomized. It was Sweet Peas way of giving freedom to the most prominently helpful character in her fantasies, meanwhile at the same time punishing her fantasized antagonists! She was just wrapping up loose ends!
reply
Dwayne
Folks this movie was brilliant and has an updated psychogenic fugue borrowed from a short story I read in High School An Occurrence at Owl Creel Bridge written a long time ago by Civil war veteran. Ambrose Bierce. Both stories begin and end in the same manner, to characterize the way the brain slows inexoribly the instant before death (or mental incapacitation for Babydoll. Well timing is everything. As for the blatant hate for the film (really) I can only chalk that up to When this was made, some said she reminded them too much of Paris Hilton. Ffwd a bit and that same bleach blonde persona in Harley Quinn is a demented yet celebrated Hero (were those two characters really so different? This movie was nothing less than cinematic candy and I Loved it.
reply
Folks this movie was brilliant and has an updated psychogenic fugue borrowed from a short story I read in High School An Occurrence at Owl Creel Bridge written a long time ago by Civil war veteran. Ambrose Bierce. Both stories begin and end in the same manner, to characterize the way the brain slows inexoribly the instant before death (or mental incapacitation for Babydoll. Well timing is everything. As for the blatant hate for the film (really) I can only chalk that up to When this was made, some said she reminded them too much of Paris Hilton. Ffwd a bit and that same bleach blonde persona in Harley Quinn is a demented yet celebrated Hero (were those two characters really so different? This movie was nothing less than cinematic candy and I Loved it.
reply
Layton
I offer another interpretation!
Babydoll and Sweet Pea are the same person. This story of Sucker Punch is not being told from the future, but through a dramatic play. Babydoll being lobotomized is the symbolic death of her childhood/trauma of losing her mom to her violent step father and then accidentally killing her sister when she meant to kill her step father (important distinction; Babydoll uses a similar gun in the warrior scenes to the gun she used to kill her sister. The death of the sisters and the way they died symbolizes the removal of blaming herself for the murder because it truly was an accident and that the real killer was a man who looked surprisingly similar to her step father, but more grotesque looking.
reply
I offer another interpretation!
Babydoll and Sweet Pea are the same person. This story of Sucker Punch is not being told from the future, but through a dramatic play. Babydoll being lobotomized is the symbolic death of her childhood/trauma of losing her mom to her violent step father and then accidentally killing her sister when she meant to kill her step father (important distinction; Babydoll uses a similar gun in the warrior scenes to the gun she used to kill her sister. The death of the sisters and the way they died symbolizes the removal of blaming herself for the murder because it truly was an accident and that the real killer was a man who looked surprisingly similar to her step father, but more grotesque looking.
reply
Freddy
It's an interesting theory but it was explained in the real world scenes that Baby Doll and Sweet Pea were two seperate people, so they can't be the same person. My theory is that Baby Doll saw herself in Sweet Pea and they both hatched a plan to excape the asylum with the other girls. The other girls chicken out and exposed what they were doing and they tried to run away, however Baby Doll knew with the guidance of her Guardian Angel that she had to sacrifice herself because the story was not about her, it was about protecting Sweet Pea and helping her excape the same way she tried to protect her sister. When Sweet Pea is at the bus station, she sees the same guardian angel that guided Baby Doll who then helps her get out.
reply
It's an interesting theory but it was explained in the real world scenes that Baby Doll and Sweet Pea were two seperate people, so they can't be the same person. My theory is that Baby Doll saw herself in Sweet Pea and they both hatched a plan to excape the asylum with the other girls. The other girls chicken out and exposed what they were doing and they tried to run away, however Baby Doll knew with the guidance of her Guardian Angel that she had to sacrifice herself because the story was not about her, it was about protecting Sweet Pea and helping her excape the same way she tried to protect her sister. When Sweet Pea is at the bus station, she sees the same guardian angel that guided Baby Doll who then helps her get out.
reply
Shaheer
As the video creator herself or himself isn't sure of the ending. I also have one theory of my own. This is from Babydoll's point of imagination, in her first jouney(in her mind) to Japan, she witnesses the destruction of the temple that showed her a way towards salvation, in real life that may resemble to her home, her family, her sister, her mother, like she realised at that point that her whole world was gone and hence since then she just like used herself to help others escape, hence creating a virtual world where she thinks she's trapped in a brothel. and one more thing, in this one as the Japanese wise man ain't real, so the ending scene itself is babydoll's own illusion of the friend she helped escaping
reply
As the video creator herself or himself isn't sure of the ending. I also have one theory of my own. This is from Babydoll's point of imagination, in her first jouney(in her mind) to Japan, she witnesses the destruction of the temple that showed her a way towards salvation, in real life that may resemble to her home, her family, her sister, her mother, like she realised at that point that her whole world was gone and hence since then she just like used herself to help others escape, hence creating a virtual world where she thinks she's trapped in a brothel. and one more thing, in this one as the Japanese wise man ain't real, so the ending scene itself is babydoll's own illusion of the friend she helped escaping
reply
Risky
During the entire movie, Baby Dolls only goal is to leave this place and to be free. On numerous occasions, the process is referred to as going to Paradise. However, like actual Mind Control slaves, the viewers of the movies are confused with deceitful double-speech and inversions using attractive words to describe horrible realities. In the movie, Paradise and Freedom do not equal escaping the mental institution, but rather signify complete dissociation from reality. The Wise Man who seems to be guiding Baby Doll toward freedom actually leads her to the acceptance of her lobotomy as the only way to truly be free
reply
During the entire movie, Baby Dolls only goal is to leave this place and to be free. On numerous occasions, the process is referred to as going to Paradise. However, like actual Mind Control slaves, the viewers of the movies are confused with deceitful double-speech and inversions using attractive words to describe horrible realities. In the movie, Paradise and Freedom do not equal escaping the mental institution, but rather signify complete dissociation from reality. The Wise Man who seems to be guiding Baby Doll toward freedom actually leads her to the acceptance of her lobotomy as the only way to truly be free
reply
vince
probably late comment but I believe. as a meditator and my knowledge of the brain. this film in a whole represents the endless possibilities of our mind that we can create and the ending is perfect for it because we create our ending. its like in class when the teacher reads a story with an abrupt end and tells us to write our own ending. as mentioned in the movie you are In control of this world we are in control of our brain and our reality. and then mind is powerful enough to create its pocket reality that can live on even through a lobotomy
reply
probably late comment but I believe. as a meditator and my knowledge of the brain. this film in a whole represents the endless possibilities of our mind that we can create and the ending is perfect for it because we create our ending. its like in class when the teacher reads a story with an abrupt end and tells us to write our own ending. as mentioned in the movie you are In control of this world we are in control of our brain and our reality. and then mind is powerful enough to create its pocket reality that can live on even through a lobotomy
reply
Add a review, comment
Other channel videos
