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"Alice in Wonderland 2: The cast of "Encounters in the Looking Glass" basically continues the lineup that Tim Burton pulled up for the first film, and is also the group of people who often collaborated with him - please observe three minutes' silence for the late Alan Rickman - - If you change the director, this pot of soup will not have the same taste. If you remove the director whose form is greater than the content, the content will naturally lose points. Gloomy Dark Fairy Tale's visuals are gone, although this one has a darker undertone.
Exploring the childhood shadows of the Queen of Hearts (Helena Bonham Carter) and the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) are two story threads that intersect with each other. The childhood shadow of the Mad Hatter was awakened by the first paper cap he made when he was a child, so he fell into the obsession of needing others to believe that his family was still alive, and he was dying of depression. Alice steals the ball of time and goes back to the past again and again, and slowly discovers the shadow of his childhood, that his father who is not good at expressing "doesn't admit" his creative hat-making talent. What Alice didn't realize, and what the audience realized, was that the Queen of Hearts that caused the Mad Hatter and her family to say goodbye was a paranoid who was caught in the question of "why no one loves me". Caused by the chain of consequences that happened when her younger sister stole biscuits and framed her when she was a child. Behind the two clues, stood two children who were not trusted by their parents.
There is another layer of reality to the Alice story that continues from the last episode. The death of her father who respected fantasy and loved adventure Apart from this, we can find many realistic counterparts in the colorful dreams. For example, the Mad Hatter is obviously Alice's self-projection. Where "time" is is the key. When she was fighting with the doctor in the mental hospital, her mother's "Run!" was the first opportunity for her mother to reach an understanding with her. In the end, she decided to take over the shipping business left by her husband together with Alice. The modern feminine gesture of women living in harmony and finding a new self. In the hallucinations and dreams that overlapped with reality, Alice was sometimes firm, sometimes vague, and the Mad Hatter taught her that there is no need to distinguish between reality and reality, just live.
This is also a common problem faced by modern people who cannot distinguish between true and false in the virtual and real world jointly constructed by movies, books, games, the Internet, fantasy, memories, dreams, self-creation and other channels. Life is not only one way of living. But Alice is still just a child in a children's story. Even in the dream world, her thinking pattern is limited to the time that she will mess up the entire closed world for a single individual, almost destroying the world. This pattern is very easy to appear in fantasy and science fiction stories with female protagonists, which is one of the reasons why it is difficult for us to see a convincing heroine in recent years.
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