Down The Rabbit Hole And Through The Looking Glass

Last night I caught the midnight premiere of Alice In Wonderland.

Let’s just start off by saying it was by far THE best telling of Alice In Wonderland to date. Tim Burton is literally a demented genius. I dunno how that dude thinks of all these crazy looking characters and then brings them to life so fluently. Kudos to that dude.

However, I went to go see Alice In Wonderland to try and see what kind over message the movie delivered. I’m also going to talk about some details in the film so if you haven’t seen it yet then you might not want to read all of this…

The Rabbit Hole

This part of the film is fascinating, the CG animation throughout is absolutely stunning. But that’s not what I wanted to talk about here. The rabbit hole in Alice In Wonderland represents something far deeper than just a “rabbit hole.”

It represents a portal into the depths of your own imagination where ANYTHING becomes possible.

Imagine what YOUR Wonderland would be like if you fell down The Rabbit Hole. I’d probably subconsciously create some kind of mutated skate park with concrete pirates trying to rob me of my steez all over the place. But that’s besides the point, I want you to think about what yours would look like.

Some weird people (like me) believe that your subconscious is responsible for creating your own reality. If that’s true, that would mean that anything you imagine could essentially become true.

When you stop and think about it for a moment it really does make sense. Before anything becomes physically real it ALWAYS starts as an idea in somebody’s mind.

I’m not saying that rabbit holes are real, but I’m not saying their not either.

Maybe I’m just talking about it metaphorically or maybe I’m dead serious, draw your own conclusions.

Characters In Wonderland

We are all familiar with Disney’s Alice In Wonderland story right? The first one. So you remember all the crazy characters from that story right. Well just imagine those characters 100 times more developed and create with some of the best CG artists around and that is the new Alice In Wonderland.

I like to look at the characters representing different aspects of my own mind. For instance, the red queen would represent your evil side and the white queen would represent your good side. Or in this particular case, Alice’s good and evil sides.

The Mad Hatter (played perfectly by Johnny Deep) could represent how you bounce back and forth from side to side depending on the situations you get faced with. If you remember, the Mad Hatter tends to go from calm and sane to ludicrous and violent in a split second sometimes. I know I’ve snapped a few times in my life when I was faced with a crazy situation. It happens, and Mad Hatter represents that state of mind for Alice.

The Cheshire Cat cat could possibly represent your mysterious side (if you got one) or it could represent those times when you just don’t feel like socializing with people and want to disappear just like the Cheshire Cat does when he doesn’t want to be somewhere.

The smoking blue caterpillar might represent you voice of concerns or words of wisdom. He is the one that helps Alice see her true potential within herself by questioning the very fact that she is herself to begin with. This forces her to question who she is and thus rediscovers herself as the champion that defeats the Jabberwocky later on in the film.

For you, this could mean questioning who YOU are. Most people don’t really know what the heck they want out of life until they are lying on their death beds regretting not doing. Therefore, let’s not be one of those poor souls and make the best out of everyday you’ve got. Ascend to your true potential by questioning EVERYTHING and never leaving a stone under turned. (or a rabbit hole unexplored)

Alice In Wonderland is about discovering who you really are like Alice does in the movie. I’ll touch on that really quick.

When Alice was a girl, she really looked up to her father. He was an outstanding successful business man who’s associates always thought was crazy because he was ALWAYS out of the box. Alice thinks the same way until she is confronted with an arranged marrage to some dweeb who can’t stop picking his nose and pretty much just walks around with a frown on all day.

(side note: It takes more muscles to frown then it does to smile, something tells me that was intentional…)

When dweebazoid proposes to her in front of her whole extended family she almost says yes but instead runs off chasing the white rabbit holding a watch which he very curiously keeps referencing. Then she falls down the rabbit hole and the journey begins.

Are Dreams Real?

Here’s just a little twist I thought I would throw in here. Have you ever had a dream SO real that you could have sworn it happened once you woke up?

I know I have, I’ve had hundreds. Some of my best ideas even come to me in dreams, then I go apply them to real life.

In Alice In Wonderland, Alice thinks she is dreaming throughout the whole movie. Even when she takes the white queens potion at the end to wake back up she just climbs out of the rabbit hole like nothing happened. It’s not until she is talking to her no-longer-to-be father in law that you see the claw marks on her arm from the beast that attacked her.

What if things that you did in your dreams effected you in real life. Not directly like claw marks on your arm but indirectly like the decisions you’re going to make the next day.

Another theory on dreaming is OBE (out of body experiences) meaning that you actually leave your earthy body during sleep and visit other dimensions of the universe.

I dunno how I feel about that yet but I will say that it sure feels like ya do when your in a dream where you’re battling midevil monsters by casting spells and extremely cool looking sword fights. (just one of my crazy dreams)

Oh, here’s a creepy one. I was watching 1000 Ways To Die to other night and I saw how some chick died in her sleep. Every night she would have the same recurring dream where a demonic figure would visit her in her sleep and strangle her until she suffocated. She actually died of a heart attack in her sleep, but it was supposed to be caused by the “dream trauma”.

People say that if you die in your dreams then you die in real life…

Alice In Wonderland 2 Cents

Overall, Alice In Wonderland was a fantastic movie. It had everything you need. Good action, suspense, mystery, weird love and all kinds of other stuff.

I haven’t seen it in 3D yet though, I heard that is off the hook.

I highly recommend seeing this movie. You won’t regret it. And if you got the chance, go see it in 3D.

Have you seen Alice In Wonderland yet? I would love to hear what you thought. I would also love to hear what you thought about my ramblings in this post and maybe some other metaphysical nonsense that you got going on. Share it with me, I’m crazy too.

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