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WONDERFUL March 8 2010
There’s a saying by Albert Einstein that goes like this: “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
When I first saw the movie stills of Disney/Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, I was immediately reminded of that quote. Burton took the beloved characters we know so well and tweaked them far beyond our imaginations. Given my excitement over it, you can guess that I took time to see the film during its opening weekend. I’ve since read mixed reviews about it - it didn’t live up to the hype, the movie falls flat, it’s visually stunning, etc. I’m more on the “like” side of the spectrum. I enjoyed it.
Tim Burton outdoes himself. The hybrid cinematography of live action and animation is fantastic. Helen Bonham Carter steals the show (and your head). I will admit, however, that this is the first time I’ve really paid attention to Alice and Wonderland, and maybe that’s the reason why I liked it. I never cared for the Disney version, I can’t remember if I even read the Lewis Carroll books, and when Jon named “Alice through the Looking Glass” as one of his favorite childhood movies, I was like “What??”. I knew the general idea and the characters involved, but Burton really made it all come to life. It gave me an unforgettable vision of Underland, and a continuation of a lesson that Einstein had already ingrained. Go mad, dream up far away places, and resist the norm. All the best people do it, anyway.
Photos courtesy of Disney
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