Thursday, February 9, 2012

Svankmajer's ALICE by Carroll

As spirit guides go this rabbit is not a good totem animal. It has a watch for a heart and serves a queen worse than Narnia's or the West's. Alice has largely resisted Disnification. Nonetheless we have lost much of its original strangeness, with the possible exception of a psychadelic song. This film is originally strange. No consciousness enhancing substances necessary.

It largely takes place in a real room, in stop time. Small Alice is a creeepy doll. The taxidermic rabbit pulls itself off its stand and stares at you with its big glass eyes and bares its big teeth. Later is pours stuffing out of its chest into a cereal bowl. Are you sure you want to go through the little door? 

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