No movie release in 2011 was more misunderstood and unfairly maligned as a result of misunderstanding than Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch. Odds are you’ll disagree with that statement. An indication of the movie’s reception by “audiences” (non-professional reviewers) and the critics can be found on Rotten Tomatoes, where audience approval is calculated to be 47%,…

Rather than giving a blow-by-blow breakdown of the narrative I’ll end with some pointers to what I think is going on. Reference to a few scenes should suffice, starting, as is only proper, with the very first scene. [This article is in two parts, the first part a look at the critical response to Sucker…