Alice is Wonderland has had numerous versions recreated spanning over the years since the original work by Lewis Carroll. The most famous of these is probably the animated Disney feature film version which has been improved and re-released along with digital improvement using modern techniques to improve its quality.
The film begins as Alice is being given tutoring when here sister is reading a book to her, Alice quickly grow bored and manages to sneak away deeper into the park where she see’s a white rabbit, peculiarly wearing clothes and muttering to himself. Curiously she follows the bizarre animal until he reaches a rabbit hole, she follows him into the hole and thus her wacky and wonderful adventure begins in one of the most psychedelic films of all time.
The animation, considering the film is made decades ago, is pleasant, colourful and gorgeous and the voice acting within the film take you back to a time of older England with the well-spoken accents and strange language used, which just adds to the quirkiness of the entire movie.
Although I can’t completely comment on the storyline, as the most of it is a credit to Lewis Carroll, I will still give my opinions on how it is embodied in the duration of the movie. The movie has become synonymous with psychedelic and hallucinogenic drugs in modern times and weather Carroll was actually under the influence of such substances remains a divided issue among spectators but despite the circumstances of how these ideas came about, they remain to be creative, out-of-the-box and mind-blowing.
Throughout the movie there are many strange characters, events and scenarios which challenge the idea of ‘normal’ movies and ‘regular’ thought patterns, from talking flowers, to random appearances from chimney-sweeping lizards, cigar-smoking walrus’s and countless other unique characters which are very unlikely to be seen anywhere else.
The characters seen in the course of the movie have become cult icons in their own right due to their uniqueness and odd qualities they hold. The general atmosphere of the movie is one of an abnormal dream with the keyword being on ‘surreal’.
The cult-status movie has been shrouded in controversy not just due to it’s apparently links to drugs but Lewis Carroll’s apparent unhealthy ‘obsession’ to young girls which supposedly explained the protagonist in the story. The movie was also very hounded by critics in England very heavily for ‘Americanising’ a classic work by an English novelist. Despite these potentially negative set backs for the movie, it can’t be argued that it has gone down in history as one of the finest ever animated by Walt Disney.
This is a movie which should be watched if not already, in my opinion, although I wouldn’t say that this is one of the best all time, it is still watch to view just for the simple reason of experiencing the surrealist, abnormal mood, tone and all together ambience of the movie, which can provide an alternate view to be witnessed by a new generation of on-lookers in perhaps the .outlandish Disney movie of all time.
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