I fully expected to hate this film.I like Zack Snyder,but do not think 300 is that great,liked Watchmen but didn't love it,and thought his best work was the Dawn Of The Dead remake.This seemed to me to be one of those visually striking films that relied heavily on visuals and was story poor.I was pleasently surprised.The story is basic,young girl suffers tragedy and ends up in a mental institution.She forms a bond with other patients and devises an escape.That is the plot.The mechanics used to convey the plot are what is interesting.As our heroine plots the escape,she burrows herself into a fantasy world where she and the other girls are not patients but prostitues,and the hospital staff is pimps and gunmen.The scenes where the girls complete various missions on their way to escape levels down even futher into unreality,and involves dragons,steam powered zombie German soldiers,trolls and other craziness.These scenes complement the character work by being unrelenting in the action department.In the end,a complete story is told,all of the various levels of reality and imagination line up,and we learn that the story was not really about who we thought it was.4Stars.Fun.
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