You know, when I first saw the trailer all the years back, I wanted to watch this movie, because who would, as I remember advertising, not want to see girls dressed in skimpy outfits fighting giant monsters? And, having watched it, let me tell you, boy, this is not the premise of the movie. Sure, it is there, but that's not it entirely. This movie is weird alright? It's about an evil step-parent, who abused his step-daughters, and one of them wanted to fight back against him, but only was capable of injuring him and accidentally murdering her sister. So, the evil step-father does not waste any time and commits her to an insane asylum wherein he has an under-the-table deal with one of the orderlies to falsify the signature of a head doctor and to do a lobotomy on his step-daughter, so she would not be able to tell the police anything.
So, when the time of lobotomy comes, I guess, she enters her own little world, where all of the persons she saw in the mental institution play certain roles. For some reason, she created a world where a priest has dropped her in to a, I don't know, I would call it a whorehouse, but kinda Disneyish whorehouse, where the clients choose their girls as per their singing and dancing (I'm telling you, the movie is weird). So, when the time comes for her to show her skills, every-time she dances, she imagines another scenario (so, a delusion-within-a-delusion), wherein she alone and sometimes with unlikely friends are fighting against giant monsters, nazi zombies etc. (you know, the video-game tropes of finding five items to proceed, e.g. And this is the exact same reason why I would not want a video-game to be transferred in to movie genres 1-on-1; I know that many dislike video-game-transferred-to-movies, but these scenes are so much worse). When she finishes her delusion cycles, everyone in her first delusion is left astounded; "Wow, you danced so sexilly etc.".
So, she figures out a plan to escape via using this "new found power of hers". And, well, the movie for the main character does not end well - in the end she is still lobotomized, but she manages, in the real world, to "help" one of her asylum friends escaping. And the movie is weird not only because of that, but some of the characters from her delusions, which (presumably) she never saw in her real-life, are in there (for example, the sensei-swordsmaster (who is also playing that blind martial-artist, who trained Daredevil, in Daredevil Marvel series, BTW) helps that one friend escape. What is that?).
So, when the time of lobotomy comes, I guess, she enters her own little world, where all of the persons she saw in the mental institution play certain roles. For some reason, she created a world where a priest has dropped her in to a, I don't know, I would call it a whorehouse, but kinda Disneyish whorehouse, where the clients choose their girls as per their singing and dancing (I'm telling you, the movie is weird). So, when the time comes for her to show her skills, every-time she dances, she imagines another scenario (so, a delusion-within-a-delusion), wherein she alone and sometimes with unlikely friends are fighting against giant monsters, nazi zombies etc. (you know, the video-game tropes of finding five items to proceed, e.g. And this is the exact same reason why I would not want a video-game to be transferred in to movie genres 1-on-1; I know that many dislike video-game-transferred-to-movies, but these scenes are so much worse). When she finishes her delusion cycles, everyone in her first delusion is left astounded; "Wow, you danced so sexilly etc.".
So, she figures out a plan to escape via using this "new found power of hers". And, well, the movie for the main character does not end well - in the end she is still lobotomized, but she manages, in the real world, to "help" one of her asylum friends escaping. And the movie is weird not only because of that, but some of the characters from her delusions, which (presumably) she never saw in her real-life, are in there (for example, the sensei-swordsmaster (who is also playing that blind martial-artist, who trained Daredevil, in Daredevil Marvel series, BTW) helps that one friend escape. What is that?).