Scott Mendelson: In Defense of Sucker Punch: Why the Flawed Film Is Worth Fighting for

It is more than a little ironic that Sucker Punch (review) is taking a critical beating for merely being an example of the very things that it's actually most critical of. At heart, it's a critical deconstruction of the casual sexualization of young women in pop culture, the inexplicable acceptance of institutional sexism and lechery, and whether or not images of empowered females on film can be disassociated with the sexual undercurrent ...

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