Re: Sucker Punch
I posted this in the costume thread, but this seems like a more appropriate place for it:
I've been thinking about this movie a lot over the last few days and the more I think about it the more I like it. We have this theory . . .
*Spoilers Ahead*
What if Sweet Pea and BabyDoll are actually the same girl!
We can all agree that the wiseman was a figment of Babydoll's imagination, yes?
So how is it that he was driving the bus at the end? Same witty quips "and one more thing . . . blah blah blah"
How is it that Sweet Pea sees him if he only exists in Babydoll's mind?
Other correlations:
The movie starts with sweet pea on her bed in her room on stage, back to the camera.
When she first enters the asylum she sees sweet pea on the same exact bed in a set room on a stage, back to the camera. Everything is exactly the same.
Sweet pea is in the lobotomy chair dressed as babydoll when the burlesque fantasy begins and she says something like "wait, this isn't right, I shouldn't be in this chair, I'm the star."
Sweet pea has a younger sister for whom she feels responsible for her death.
Babydoll has a younger sister for whom she feels responsible for her death.
Babydoll says it wasn't her story, it was Sweet peas story all along near the end of the film.
The 5th mystery item is . . . herself, she must find her true self. Did she ever not know who she was? Hmmmm
She tells Sweet Pea to go home and tell momma her sister loves her or something to that effect. This is her making amends with her past and accepting her fate, to be lobotomized. The whole scene of Sweet pea escaping, taking the bus and running home to her mother takes place in babydoll's mind after she has been lobotomized.
In the real world yes, Gorski says BabyDoll has been quite a handful, started a fire, stabbed an orderly and helped one girl escape, but does she ever mention 3 dead girls? I don't remember, and if so, were they just random girls Blue killed? Perhaps we never met the girl that she helped escape. We only know her as Sweet Pea because that is the personality Babydoll envisioned for her. And perhaps the other girls in the real world are nothing like the characters that BabyDoll sees in her head during her fantasies in level 1 (burlesque) or level 2 (off the wall craziness worlds). Or maybe I'm digging too deep for something that isn't there . . .
Also, from another member on here:
chameleon said:
Yeah, but think about it....SweetPea is who the story is really about. (Even BabyDoll tells her so) I have a further theory: In the beginning, SweetPea is in the lobotomy chair. The Lobotomy is going ON ALL DURING THE MOVIE. That needle is penetrating into SweetPea's brain and as it goes deeper and deeper.... SweetPea's alters (Amber, Rocket, Blondie, BabyDoll) die off, don't they? Needle hits that part of the brain, and they die off. (Symbolism: That racing train getting ready to blow up the city? Looks like that Lobotomy needle racing through her brain. It'll ruin her brain alright...) BabyDoll gives herself up (makes herself go away) to "free" SweetPea. Then, SweetPea finally gets to mentally go home alone - cuz she's the CORE personality, and who's driving the bus? WiseMan (think: Inner Wisdom) Don't we all have that? Some kind of inner wisdom?
What do you guys think?
