Alice in Wonderland

Ophelia Zhao

Alice in Wonderland

  Before seeing this movie, I have never seen any film that is directed by Tim Burton. So, at first I thought this is just a regular Alice in Wonderland, which I’ve been told since I was 2 or 3 years old.

  But, as the story goes on, this becomes a totally different story than I thought. This happens when Alice is 18, about 10 years after her first visit of this place. Now, her mission is to side with the White Queen and to take down the evil Red Queen. On the way of to the White Queen’s Palace, Alice kind of lost herself. Because since the first time she as ever step on this land, she has been questioned whether she is the Alice that they are looking for.

  By the time the independent day comes, she met the Caterpillar once again and once more Caterpillar asks who she is and this time Alice’s memory has come back to her and she finds the courage that she lost previously.

  By this adventure, she has gains the courage. Then by the time she goes back to the normal world, where she is suppose to marry somebody that she doesn’t love, she stands up against the marriage and says no. This time, she has become herself again and she really has the courage to face that who she is and what she really wants. She lost her innocence before, but by the adventure that she has, she kind of gain her innocence back.

  Also, between the Red Queen and the White Queen just like one is evil and the other one is good. Because Red Queen envies her sister’s pretty looking and adored by everyone, she comes and ruined everything. But, good always defeat the evil. At last, the Red Queen has been banished and no one is allowed to talk to her. And sadly the guy always around the Red Queen looks like he really doesn’t like her and he wants to suicide, but Header prevents him. So, at last there’s a betrayal going on.

  I like this movie because it taught me to be brave and stand against things that I don’t like. I know I can’t be Alice and I don’t want to be her, but still, I admire her courage of refusing the marriage and she can faces the monster and finally kills it. I can somehow see my shadow in her. When I’m growing up, I know I really lost some innocence and those things may never come back to me. But, Alice shows me that do not give up and one day I will find the innocence that I had lost.

   rated 5/5