This 1988 adaptation of "Alice" by legendary stop-motion director Jan Svanmeier differs from Lewis Carroll's original, and Svanmeier reinterprets it in a very unique, even dark, style. This highly original, unforgettable "Alice in Wonderland."
In 1971, Swan Mayer had adapted the works of Louis Carroll in the short film "Zvahlav aneb Saticky Slameného Huberta", and this "Alice" is a complete film work combining live-action and stop-motion animation. In many of these scenes, the plot is completely faithful to the original, but it is different from any other film adaptation. Whether it's Mr. Rabbit with crumbs falling from his chest, weird big teeth and a pocket watch pulled out of his stomach, or a caterpillar made of socks and denture eyeballs, or even a man who fell into a bucket after burrowing into a desk." Rabbit Hole", these common objects, environments, and even animals in the film create the closest thing to a real dream.
Different from the general director "Apollo" who looks at the fire from the other side, by imagining the air-to-air handling of dreams, Svanmeier's dream interpretation is closer to Freud's analysis of dreams, and ordinary people's nightmares - everything is It comes from ordinary life, but it has a different daily logic. The lines and even the animal dialogues in the film are completely dictated or dubbed by the little girl "Alice", the protagonist. All are our own inner monologues or portrayals. And it's this horribly real detail, combined with the distorted world of stop-motion animation, that makes the film so absurd and disturbing, creating one impressively surreal scene after another.
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