Do you need some visual entertainment to fire up your brain after the tedious summer lessons? Do you want to escape from all the distress-causing elements of your life? I bet those soft tissues need to relax and get some graphic refreshments for a change. If you are the type who likes fantasy, crime, adventure, and suspense, then the following action-fantasy thriller film and television serial drama will totally suit your taste. Plus, both motion pictures present two different worlds where people would commonly want to escape – from the world of fantasy and from the world of reality.
Prison Break
This American television drama created by Paul Scheuring has truly captured the eyes of the audiences that it won the 2005 People’s Choice Award for Favorite New TV Drama. It has also gained an estimated average viewer of 8.2 million from 2005 to 2009 in America alone.
What made this serial drama popular are the cunning ways devised by Michael Scoeld, (Wentworth Miller) a structural engineer, to help his older brother Lincoln Burrows, (Dominic Purcell) a high school drop-out and convicted felon, escape from prison.
This serial drama aired four seasons, which ran 81 episodes. Its first season follows the rescue of Lincoln, who is sentenced to death because of an accused murder, and Michael’s fight to ward o the execution of his brother. The second season focuses mainly on imprisonment of Michael, together with the other seven fugitives, at the Penitenciaria Federal de Sona in Panama. On the other hand, the third season follows Michael in formulating an escape plan out of Sona and the life of Lincoln outside Panama. The last season is somehow distressing since Michael sacrifices his life for his brother, wife, and child upon learning that he is dying from a brain tumor. A side from its
fistfights, stealthy missions, and sly escape plans, the series appeals to many fans because of its story about two brothers who struggle together to help each other.
Sucker Punch
Reality is the worst prison to break away but fantasy is the best place to scheme an escape route. This is what Steve Shibuya (the film writer) and Zack Snyder (the director) want to relay in their 2011 summer film, Sucker Punch.
Snyder brings the film back on the 1960’s and focuses on Babydoll’s (Emily Browning) feat to escape from reality. The film starts with Babydoll’s ordeal with her stepfather who wants t o
claim h er
deceased mother’s fortune. During Babydoll’s ordeal, her stepfather murders her younger sister and blames her for doing it. Then her stepfather institutionalized her at the Lennox House for the Mentally Insane to undergo lobotomy (a neurosurgical procedure to treat mental illness) so that she cannot reveal the truth about her family’s tragedy.
To cope with the hopelessness of her situation, Babydoll retreats to a fantasy world where she arrives in a brothel owned by Blue, whom she envisions as a mobster. There, Babydoll’s journey to another world of fantasy began. Yes, you read it right. Snyder developed a lm somehow similar to the 2010 lm Inception; though this time, the protagonist enters a world of fantasy to collect ve items she needs to escape. Together with the other dancers at the brothel, Babydoll confronts Nazi steam punk zombies, giant demon samurai, robots, orcs, and dragons. Babydoll’s and the dancers’ cute combat out t while holding the machine guns and the swords during combats are bonuses of the film. On top of that, the film’s awesome graphic arts and the characters’ cool stunts have truly delivered visual feast for the eyes
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