A Swift, Heavy Blow, Felling One's Foe Immediately (For Preference)

Went to see an interesting film this evening. It was called Sucker Punch, and was, as has been said, rather interesting. The premise can be boiled down to two things.
1) The Key to Freedom is in ones own mind.
2) Each Person has whatever weapons they will need for whatever they need to do.

I will also point out that throughout the entire film, there are naught more than perhaps seven of the major characters I would not cheerfully carve the Blood-Eagle into. And even one of those is questionable. That is roughly half the cast...

Anyway, basically, this woman dies. She leaves everything to her two daughters. Their guardian does not like this. Bad things happen. They end with younger daughter dead, and older daughter placed in a psych ward. A rather dodgy one. Like to the point where one of the orderly's is willing to take two grand in exchange for making those arrangements to have poor little daughter, referred to as Baby Doll, Lobotomized. Including forging the Doctor's signature.

Anyway, poor little baby doll takes refuge in her own mind, creating a fantasy world. And then, in that rather dark world, she proceeds to create even more fantasy worlds. And she drags her fellow inmates into them. They are rather fantastical ones too. Very Steampunkish, and one has shades of Final Fantasy in it. There be a very well done Dragon at some point. She is given a quest to do by someone in her dream, in order to win freedom. And the film follows that quest.

The ending was not how I'd have done it, and there were a few loose ends they neglected to tie up, but it was a fairly decent film, all things considered. My biggest quibble was that the lovely disk-pommeled Zweihander (it looked like a Zweihander hilt at least) remained in its scabbard the entire time... I mean seriously. On the other hand, they countered this with a Mammen-headed hatchet. And a very nice Flintlock pistol and Stilleto combo. And I suppose in theory, loathe as I am to admit it, There was a rather nice Katana. Which was fairly well used. I'd still have rather seen the Zweihander.