Sucker Punch is the story of a young woman trying to escape the jail that her own mind created. After a traumatic event, she is sent to a mental asylum, and there she meets her loyal companions, who will accompany her in their journey to set themselves "free". This journey takes place in an imaginary world, where the residents of the asylum break reality's bounds. The story is another hero's journey to break oneself free from the boundaries of reality's cruelty and to perfect one's very nature. Many typical elements are present within the trailer, including the damsel in distress, the loyal companions, the mentor, and the evil captors. However, the damsel in distress is also the hero, the loyal companions are all insane, and the mentor is the hero's own conscience. And the evil captors don't even exist in both worlds the hero lives in. This is what sets the story apart from the common hero's journey. The heroine is victim to her evil step/father (hmm.... sounds like Cinderella) after her mother dies. She meets friends at the asylum, and they all set a goal to escape the inescapable installation. They go all Inception and share a lucid dream, where they search for the magic items: a map to find their way, a knife to cut the wilderness in front of them, a key to open the proverbial door that leads to the innermost cave, and fire to light the dungeons they will have to pass through in order to escape their minds.
Also, the trailer is rich(?) in bleak tones that give the overall sense of...bleakness that the asylum and the many different worlds share, their only highlight being the 6 girls questing and leveling up to meet the final boss. Of course, the trailer is missing the last two steps of the hero's journey; the innermost cave and the return to society. After all, its a trailer.
Interesting little thing I noticed, the "S" in the movie's logo looks like the symbol for "G" in the musical scale.
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