Analysis of 'Alice in Wonderland' by Tim Burton

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Alice in Wonderland New Disney movie,"Alice in wonderland" is directed by Tim Burton, and written by Linda Woolverton. In the movie, Johnny Depp stars as the Mad Hatter, which gathered fans of Depp's fan to go into the cinema. Mia Wasikowska stars as 19-year-old Alice. The movie was different from the fairytale that we have known it really well. Alice was going to be proposed by a guy who can help her family establish their social status on a planned surprising engagement party without noticing her. Underneath family expectation and social pressure, she was hesitated if she could make a choice for herself or fulfill her family expectation to marry the guy. Suddenly, she saw the White Rabbit who was a rush, so she left the guy who was still waiting for her respond, and chased the White Rabbit to a rabbit hole which lead her into an underland. Miraculously, Alice returns to whimsical world that she was familiar with when she was a young girl. She met the White Rabbit, Tweedledee and Tweedleum, the Caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat, and Dormouse. Alice starts a magic and unrealistic journey to seek for who she really is and in order to find true herself during the adventure. Alice said, "From the moment I fell down the rabbit hole, I've been told what I must do and who I must be. I've been shrunk, stretched, scratched, and stuffed inside a teapot. I've been accused of being Alice and of not being Alice."("Alice in Wonderland") After Alice entered into the underland, people there kept arguing about if she was "the" Alice. She was also started to question herself who she really was. Woolverton was trying to associate the reality of Alice's with the imagination of Alice's. People who were at her engagement party were somehow connected to people that she met in underland. They have been telling what she should have behaved. Jeanette Winterson who is the
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