Lindsay Conrad - Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland was a great different video from what we have been watching in class. I loved the relationship between the Mad Hatter and Alice, and the parallel to her father. The Mad Hatter was the crazy man that her father told her it was ok to be. The HAtter also had little pieces of wisdom as her father did. For example "There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger! Some say to survive it: You need to be as mad as a hatter." This is suggesting a world outside of what is. The transcendent and even mysterium are apparent in the words of the Mad Hatter.
There was also a sense of mysterium and wonder with the cat. Cheshire was speaking in riddles and rhymes and tended to appear when he was needed. He has God-like qualities. The riddles reminded me of the parables of Jesus and the smile turning into the moon and tendency to show up to amaze the crowds reminded me of a Holy Spirit type of figure. He is transparent and available, of the world and not of the world. Cheshire is mostly difficult to completely grasp which is a common difficulty in any faith, grasping the truth and other things that are transcendent.
Alice also seems to have a knack for that which is other-worldly. Like The Chronicles or Narnia, the other world is something that Alice does not know when she is to enter, but the twist is that she didn't know that she had been before. She also had a gift of making her dreams an reality for her. The rabbit hole was real, but there is no way that she can get it to come back on command. That would be like people requesting answers for prayers getting to decide when they are going to come true. Isn't it interesting that we can make things in our dreams come true, but more often than not people leave their prayers for the Almighty to swoop down and answer whenever.