Sucker Punch analysis

Firstly if you haven't seen Sucker Punch I strongly recomend you do! It's an amazing film that is full of action and has an mind blowing plot twist. It is cleverly manipulated and includes a lot of the main codes and conventions you would expect to see in a thriller. For those reasons we decided to look to this film for inspiriation.

Just a little background information:

Sucker Punch is a 2011 fantasy thriller directed by  Zack Snyder and co-written by Steve Shibuya..  The opening of this film is jsut over 5 minutes long and Zack uses many techniques to immediately engage the audience.The film stars Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, and Carla Gugino. The storyline follows the fantasies of a young woman who is committed to a mental institution, as she makes a plan to escape the hospital before suffering a lobotomy.
Sucker Punch opening

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The opening of this thriller shows off some very interesting visual effects and intense character play which grabs the attention of the audience and builds up an air of tension and mystery which gets the viewers asking questions before any main dialougue has even started.

The establishing shot of this film is of a theatre stage which straight away puts the veiws in the audience seat and involves them in the film by showing that they are spectatiors. Not spectators of the film but rather spectators of what is to come. By placing them in the theatre seats of the scene it creates a fourth wall making the audience imedietly get drawn in.

The opening fits a lot of the thriller conventions. It creates tension, there is an over voice narrative, there's low key lighting and fast editing. There is also a variaty of camera angles including high angle shots which show the vaunrability of the characters causing the audience to feel connected with the characters.