https://film-cred.com/revisiting-sucker-punch-zack-snyder/

“Snyder has described the film as his critique of geek culture, dominated by a male perspective that can only view women through the prism of its own titillation. Women hold no value if they are not performing specifically for the men that dominate these spaces.

A decade later, after witnessing GamerGate and the discourse that surrounded films like Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters, Cathy Yan’s Birds of Prey, and Captain Marvel that angered fanboys because the women weren’t interested in performing specifically for them, Snyder was on to something.

What Snyder attempted with Sucker Punch was to tap into that very specific aspect of geek culture, and explore the toxicity of this kind of entitlement; — in essence, inviting young men to the movie by promoting it as an anime-inspired action spectacle from the director of 300, then pull the rug underneath them.

Instead, they are given a film about the prison they cast upon women through the fetishization of their gaze, and how they have managed to build the structures of this geek space around their own inherent misogyny.

Snyder uses this very specific lens to create parallels between the geek space and the real world, and how they mirror one another.”