"Alice"--The road to innocence never returns

Myrna 2022-03-15 08:01:02

The quiet and comfortable pastoral scenery is no different from the beginning of the original book. The pure sound of water and the faint and constant bird calls easily give people a sense of substitution like a fairyland. The sun was scrambling to escape from the tree cracks, but the two sisters did not enjoy such a coveted view. The faceless sister was flipping through a book that was boring and boring in her eyes (the original explanation was that there were neither pictures nor dialogues), while the younger sister was bored, throwing stones at the water with a look of frustration.

The most thrilling part of the whole film, the girl fights with the rabbit family. The Christmas-like joy dresses up empty skeletons. It is difficult to tell who is alive and who is dead. What the director really wants to express is that the child's inner simplicity is sometimes separated from evil. Not far.

Until the close-up of the sister's lips added dialogue to the story, the strange and bizarre finally started to climb along the calf in an orderly manner. Rotten apples, dead insects, silent everyday objects, dirty toys, gloomy hanging paintings, etc. all remind the audience with a certain state of arrogance in a state of excitement, that this is not the one full of Optimistic exploration, persistent childlike innocence is known for its sleepwalking fantasy, that fairy tale is as old and dead as human physiology. What this film is going to show is its rotting corpse, its lost soul, and swear by the maggots and sap on it, how much I love my youth and ignorance.

The sense of horror brought by this surrealist style is like the marijuana in the movie in the imagination. It starts with a little pain, and begins to try to accept another world in a daze, and then it is an earth-shaking ecstasy and enjoyment. But what is really frightening is the feeling of emptiness and powerlessness after waking up. The director vented his dissatisfaction with reality in fairy tales, even with a certain extreme religious consciousness, to prove true love with destruction, just like a former Catholic finally joined the devil just to prove the existence of angels and purity. This style of Alice travels wildly, dark to the point of incomparable cuteness.

Even the weapon that Mr. Rabbit tried to hurt Alice was a triangle

reason. When Alice first came to the dreamland, the first drawer she entered was full of mathematical measuring instruments such as rulers and compasses, including the long passages filled with such utensils. With mathematics as the boundary, it symbolized that the dreamland was gradually growing. Far from rational, rigorous, scientific, and boring life also indicates that Alice is approaching like some unpredictable danger. The compass hurt Alice, not only because mathematics is almost a nightmare for many people, but also a kind of protection, and then Alice chose to approach danger and rejected the rules and order that blocked the road to freedom. Can't stand curiosity, can't resist temptation, is it not a common problem for children and even adults.

eat. What she eats determines how big Alice's physique is, and it also determines how far Alice's adventure can go and whether her own safety can be guaranteed. All cookies to protest the injustice of the trial. In particular, it is worth pointing out that the ink will make Alice smaller and the biscuits will make Alice larger. It is rationality that binds the activity of people's thoughts, while innocence and enthusiasm will open up a metaphor of a new perspective. Similarly, the animals that Alice encounters are busy eating, rabbits eat sawdust, mice run for their lives to cook porridge and even die on the mousetrap for food, pig babies cry because they want to drink milk, the Duchess spit out The long tongue preys on flies, the caterpillar recommends magic mushrooms, the March Hare and the Hatter are discarded by time for afternoon tea, and the most terrifying thing is that the bunnies grab Alice and throw her away In the storage room, all the food has changed greatly. Every time I think of the countless slender nails on the delicious bread, I will shudder (in the movie version of "When the Cicadas Cry" I used this trick for reference. ). While Mr. Rabbit eats sawdust and the Hatter drinks tea, he adds a sense of disgust to "eating" in a perspective way. It is not difficult to imagine the greed and ugliness of human beings when confronted with self-righteous delicacy. In this world, "eating" can be said to be the source of sin and suffering, a means of ending and revenge, a phenomenon that seems reasonable but no different from being incarcerated, and a phenomenon that ranges from pure simplicity to pure evil. This qualitative desire. With involuntary joy and fear, people who know how to enjoy are like the March Hare and the Hatter who are manipulated by time and experience, mechanically repeating things that are perfectly correct and conform to the rules of their world.

The cutest scene in the whole movie

sex. The snake-like stockings and Alice's elongated neck in the original book point to an animal - a snake. This evil, cunning, intelligent creature has long reigned supreme in mythology about fertility, and its presence signifies some kind of awakening of Alice's sexual consciousness. Of course, every child, when he first realizes or discovers this cognition, thinks it is filthy, and its freshness and fear are in absolute proportion. Dirty socks drilled in and out of countless big holes, and even the two socks under Alice's feet involuntarily broke away from her feet and tried to imitate. But never came back. One of the stockings was a caterpillar in the original book, and also played the role of a caterpillar in the film. After it gave Alice the mushroom, it was ready to go to sleep. The director always only gave a close-up of one eye, and used needle and thread to ruthlessly, The upper and lower eyelids of its eyeballs are sewed together mercilessly. From the perspective of Alice's dreams, this is her self-protection mechanism, with childishness and innocence; from the perspective of "the proud strength of men", it is more like some kind of disgust and self-abandonment, as if to use This decisive approach returns to the simplicity of childhood.

Alice is trying to escape a larger "shell" that surrounds her

Compared. Sad specimens and tyrannical living creatures, the comparison between Alice's size and the woods, the seemingly formal trial is actually absurd, etc. The director changed the seemingly impossible to watch and give life to it, and completed it in a surreal style. A strong indictment of bizarre realities. When Mr. Rabbit's resurrection comes, everyone will not doubt the gloomy feeling of the whole film: the nails on his feet are pulled out from the wooden board and snapped, and the sound of "kaka" is accompanied by the violence of another world. Mystery shatters the viewer's sanity like shattering a glass case. Every life, once alive, is equally terrifying when watching the director treat it like a puppet: it turns out that the tack can be connected to the wound on the stomach (juxtaposed with the needle stitching the eyelid and the thread passing through the belly). When Alice changed between sizes, the director did not use computer technology to change Alice's appearance, but used the size of the opposite tree as a reference to express the change in Alice's body shape. This point can actually be extended to two ways of thinking: one is that the outside world does not actually change with our method or will, we can only change our perspective and logic; the other is that if we decide not to accept any changes, then the passing years will Let us have to witness the changes in the world, and eventually make ourselves unacceptable and go mad. The trial is the end of the story. In the original book, the author made a very sunny statement that "The Queen of Hearts did not kill a person, and the beheading was just her imagination." In the film, not only the guards were actually beheaded, but also three The Moon Rabbit and the Hatter exchanged heads even more. Of course, nothing changed because of the qualitative change in the beheading. When man thinks, God laughs; when man does not think, God catches a cold. The brain stopped thinking, how can society not show a deformed state?

At the end of the film, Alice is not only not frightened by the nightmare, but imitates the style of the Queen of Hearts. In fact, Alice is still in a dream at the moment, because the title and the novel also indicate that she and her sister are by the creek, not in the cold house, but the director did not wake her up. This means that Alice has started the first part of her growth. The precious kindness and innocence are gradually being controlled by her involuntary power and desire, and an infinitely pessimistic but just started life has finally begun.

This rabbit's teeth can bite nails

I'm curious what it feels like to fall on a haystack

Small Alice doll is so ugly

Little life just hatched from eggshell

Seeing this, I want to spit blood, Yang Svanmeier, do you have to make these two goods and the original description so realistic?

The only people in the whole film who were controlled by the line, and the only ones who were really cruelly punished, they endured very thoroughly, sluggishly without any regrets

I changed seats seven times and brought seven watches, but I could not know the time, nor the future. It can be said that it is seven days a week. In real life, people live and work strictly according to the schedule, and they follow the rules like a puppet being pulled on a wire. There are also some close to the watch effect, which shows that a person cannot face life maturely while resenting himself for not being able to. Have fun again

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Extended Reading
  • Ibrahim 2022-03-26 09:01:14

    It was the first time I saw a Swan Mayer film, and it was fun. . .

  • Mckenna 2022-03-19 09:01:11

    Fairy tales are never beautiful, dark gothic weirdness is the core.

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Alice quotes

  • [first lines]

    Alice: Alice thought to herself... Alice thought to herself 'Now you will see a film... made for children... perhaps... ' But, I nearly forgot... you must... close your eyes... otherwise... you won't see anything.

  • [repeated line]

    Alice: Sir, please!