What does it take for us to realize our true identity? What forces us to confront the real world? In Tim Burton's take on Lewis Carroll's classic, it takes falling into an entirely different world. The people and creatures that Alice encounters in Underland are exaggerations of human characteristics; anger, madness, intolerance, and the like. Alice must navigate a realm that is hurtling towards chaos, in an attempt to save what is good and right. In determining what she must do in Underland, Alice builds for herself the courage to face the chaos that waits for her upon the return to her real world, where she is faced with an unappetizing marriage and future. Alice has to prove to herself that she does possess power to change her world; that she alone can say yes, or no.
Personal responsibility is an intriguing theme in this film. Why have the residents of Underland bowed to a prophecy, and waited for a savior, instead of taking it upon themselves to do what is right? They are faced with the same conundrum that Alice is in her own world.
I staunchly believe that indifference (or waiting for someone else to do the right thing), is a grave ill. I despise people who wait to follow the first person to say no; and I loathe those who would rather swallow their tongue then stick their neck out for the moral good.
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