http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0978764/boa ... /239294931
"When walking into the asylum, Baby Doll (M. Rease) displaced herself onto that girl sitting on the bed and imagined herself as her. Sweet Pea was Baby Doll's Courage and her courage was the star of the show, her escape from her physical self, her courage within her to overcome the guilt of her sister and to escape through that character that she created. Sweet Pea is her creation and she used that girl as a template. It's the same with the other girls, they are just models for the parts of Baby Doll.
Baby Doll, Sweet Pea, Rocket, Blondie, Amber
are all aspects of that one girl (M. Rease) (you)
because you displaced yourself onto that one girl when the curtains opened.
You used her as a model to project yourself on, to escape this reality.
Rocket is innocence.
Amber is loyalty.
Blondie is fear.
Baby Doll is the physical self.
Sweet Pea is courage.
Innocence is killed.
Loyalty shattered.
Fear falls away.
Physical self is lobotomized.
All that's left is Courage.
At the very end, the physical self is defeated (Baby Doll) but the courage of the mind (Sweet Pea) lives on. And that's what this movie is saying, that it's you who holds yourself back, you determine what you are afraid of, you are capable of escaping whatever prison you are in, take the courage from your mind, from this fantasy you create, and fight.
As seen when the stepfather puts her name on the patient form: M. Rease
M. Rease = Memories = Mind Erase
Madame Gorski mentioned that M. Rease helped another patient to ... escape.
Maybe the other patient she helped to "escape" is you.
You > BabyDoll > SweetPea > You
You displaced yourself onto BabyDoll.
As BabyDoll you displaced yourself onto SweetPea to further escape within the fantasy world(s) of the film.
At the end, SweetPea, the voice of Courage, speaks to you, encouraging you to take control of your reality.
The start of the movie is like you closing your eyes and then opening to a flash of theater lights. When the curtain opens, you see a faceless protagonist, that you zoom in on and swing around to see what the face of the mask will look like that you don. That later transfers to SweetPea. The last thing seen is the swing around to the back of your latest mask and she is moving away. Cut to black, 'closing your eyes', and the last voice reminding you who's story it is. You open your eyes back in your reality.
This is your story.
It's a two way mirror.
On one side, there is you.
On the other, Sweet Pea.
You both look into the mirror and see BabyDoll.
(Though you can interchange the three)
But its all the same, just different masks of a psyche.
Eventually the mirror shatters and you are left all alone with courage.
(I also created Dark Side Of The Sucker Punch.)
I encourage people to experience the film in its many ways: With that album as the audio combined with the visual storytelling.
https://vimeo.com/59223101 (Whole other story about that.)
Also focusing on the audio {dialogue and music}. Listening to Madam Gorski lead you into the therapy session(s).
Listening to the official Sucker Punch soundtrack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvW-biqz8yM Each track is an escape, a melody to fall into a reverie; a therapy session. An anthem to inspire and encourage.
http://sciencefictionworld.com/films/sc ... t-two.html
The two way mirror should be noted, as you can see the perspective from BabyDoll and/or SweetPea. Two sides of a mirror. They are parts of a psyche (you). Zack Snyder is the Madam Gorski of your reality. Both perspectives are written in the link above. Gerard Wood wrote from Sweet Pea's perspective. Under that in the comments section, I shared my perspective from BabyDoll. I also love what AshleyRI wrote as it adds to Mr. Wood's write-up.
The monarch article above
http://vigilantcitizen.com/moviesandtv/ ... -sexy-7-2/ is also important to understand the hidden meaning in the style of the film.
An extremely layered film: from the sexual suggestive imagery in the fantasies that imply what's happening in one layer of reality to the meta-psychological displacement happening to the viewer (if they are willing to be a participant and not a gawking idiot in the audience that dismisses the film as nothing more than eye candy), the therapeutic nature between doctor (director) and patient (viewer), the levels of ascension (enlightenment) in Buddhism philosophy, the commentary on how society (the asylum) treats people (patients), the cry for help and reassurance that you're not alone, the empowerment to help others, the voice whispering to fight."
