Alice (1988 film)

Alice is a 1988 fantasy film written and directed by Jan vankmajer. Its original Czech title is Nco z Alenky, which means Something from Alice. It is a loose adaptation of Lewis Carrolls first Alice book, Alices Adventures in Wonderland 1865, about a girl who follows a white rabbit into a bizarre fantasy land. Alice is played by Kristna Kohoutov. The film combines live action with stop motion animation, and is distinguished by its dark and uncompromising production design.

Alice appears to be in her own bedroom, when a taxidermically stuffed rabbit comes to life and breaks out of its glass case. Alice follows the rabbit through the drawer of a desk into a cavern. She subsequently falls through a bucket and seemingly down an elevator shaft. Wonderland itself is a mix of drab householdlike areas with incongruous relationships of space and size. The Queens execution sentences are carried out by the White Rabbit with a pair of scissors. At the films end, Alice wakes in her room, discovers that the rabbit is still missing from his glass case, and finds a secret compartment where he keeps scissors. She ponders whether or not she will cut his head off. The film is ambiguous about whether this room is Alices real world or Wonderland.Jan vankmajer, who had been making short films since the mid1960s, says he got the confidence to make a featurelength film due to finishing the shorts Jabberwocky and Down to the Cellar. He described Lewis Carrolls Alices Adventures in Wonderland, a work which had followed him since he was a child, as one of the most important and amazing books produced by this civilisation. He argued that other film adaptations of the story had interpreted it as a fairy tale, but that Carroll had written it like a dream, and that was what he wanted to transmit While a fairy tale has got an educational aspect it works with the moral of the lifted forefinger good overcomes evil, dream, as an expression of our unconscious, uncompromisingly pursues the realisation of our most secret wishes without considering rational and moral inhibitions, because it is driven by the principle of pleasure. My Alice is a realised dream. ........

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