Lennos was amazing in this episode XD
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lol wtf I meant Lennox**
Best Snyder movie so far. Sadly it is deeply misunderstood. Movie is way more deeper and complex than it looks like on first glance.
People don't realize Sweet Pea is the protagonist, Babydoll is a figment of Sweet Pea’s imagination. Babydoll does not exist. Babydoll's story is Sweet Pea’s story. Sweet Pea was sexually abused, killed her sister and is in psychiatric hospital in therapy. Babydoll is Sweet Pea's avatar. Way of dealing with grief, with guilt, and way to manage her current situation and overcome it. Babydoll is also Sweet Pea's guardian angel.
Sweet Pea is the only fully rounded character, other girls represent aspects of her psyche. Babydoll represents strength and courage, Amber loyalty, Blondie fear, and Rocket represents guilt. In the third level reality her psyche fights for the things to get her free from her current state. Second guardian angel (the Wise Man) guides her through. To fully recover she needs to get over her guilt (Rocket dies as a symbol), also other girls represent things which she needs to leave behind to fully recover .
Babydoll is one of those things. She is the fifth thing (“The fifth is a mystery. It is the reason. It is the goal. It will be a deep sacrifice and a perfect victory.”). Lobotomy of Babydoll represents Sweet Pea’s mind of taking control. Sweet Pea needs to sacrifice Babydoll to be “cured”. Escape at the end is a symbol of that process of being cured. That’s why the driver is the Wise Man, he guides her further.
Sucker Punch is Sweet Pea’s journey from “madness” to “sanity”. Movie is philosophical / psychological investigation wrapped in a special effects action-fantasy. As the movie changes realities (mostly in the third reality), Snyder uses more fetishized image of the girls. He uses clichés and cluttered iconography (nazi zombies, sexy schoolgirls). It is a way to detached and disconnected characters from second reality. Second reality, the brothel, is the “main” reality. In which everything happens.
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Brilliant! I didn't quite understand the movie but your analysis and insights made it clear and better!
The third season is better than the second.
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@pasq25 Way better! The second season was mainly boring because they spent so much time looking for Sophia and so much Shane drama..
Watching Nick and Winston busking made me feel so uncomfortable
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@90sstyle Me too! It's the only part of the episode that I didn't like at all.
Wasn't Figgis supposed to have a gigantic hand scar? Or am I thinking of someone else?
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@paranormalcy No, that was the corrupt FBI agent who works for him.
I tried to enjoy it as much as I could but it just wasn't that good; only a few episodes were truly funny but the rest is just blah and too hard to sit through. I just don't see what the hype is all about and I thought I was the only one but apparently there are others that think Seinfeld is overrated, it really is. I just watched the final episode of the third season and finally decided to drop it.
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@ner0p I agree. That's why I couldn't force myself to watch it because I actually want to enjoy it. So, naturally, I had high expectations since I've been hearing people talk about how awesome it is, but when I started watching it I was shocked, maybe it is good but not as good as I expected and that's why I wasn't able to truly enjoy it.
Even though I dropped it now, I think one day I might change my mind and pick up where I left and enjoy it because my sense of humour would have changed and grown accustomed to such humour by then.
The background music for Barry getting off the train and trying to catch a cab is so Harry Potter, it's distracting. :D
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@dgw Oh my god, I thought the same!! XD
So they place this season in the 60ies or something but then they let the character play Nirvana on stage. Yeah, right...
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@hagbard I wondered the same so I looked it up and found this:
"Though the fourth season of 'American Horror Story' is set in 1952, the show has bent time to feature modern music. So far, Jessica Lange has performed David Bowie's 'Life on Mars?' and Lana Del Rey's 'Gods and Monsters,' while Sarah Paulson sang a silky-smooth version of 'Criminal' by Fiona Apple.
The bizarre use of music written decades after the 'American Horror Story: Freak Show' setting delivers an added creepiness to the series, with Nirvana's 'Come as You Are' acting as the latest example."
