Besides the obvious fact that "Alice in Wonderland" makes little coherent sense, Alice is the only Disney female lead to be even more absent-minded than Snow White.
Alice’s choices are questionable, and watching her make these choices throughout "Alice in Wonderland" is painful. As college students, we may forget this is how our parents feel while watching us make questionably poor decisions throughout our lives. They have about as much power with our debatable decisions as we do while screaming at Alice through the television screen, “Don’t eat the cakes that say “Eat Me!” on them! It’s a bad idea!”
Throughout the whole story, Alice is either too big or too small. The whole story is obsessed with size. If size doesn’t matter for boys, then it shouldn’t matter for girls. No wonder girls have a poor body image. When Alice falls into the rabbit hole, she finds herself in a room with a small door. When she realized she was too big to fit into the door, the doorknob told her to drink the bottle that said, “Drink Me!” and she would shrink into size that would make her small enough to fit through the door. Who is this guy? Bill Cosby? Why would you drink something a stranger told you to drink? Or better yet, why would you want to get deeper into the rabbit hole? Oh, I can’t get through the door? Oh sweet, I actually don’t care! How about a ladder to go back up through the rabbit hole and get the freak outta here!
But since Alice had a wild
she decided to drink the mystery potion. It’s only a deep, dark rabbit hole. What’s the harm? Predators don’t normally try to lure their prey into a secluded place.
Then when the potion makes her small enough to get through the door, she’s too big. Luckily, she approaches a caterpillar smoking something questionable while atop a mushroom. Alice was confused as usual and asking around for something to make her big again. The caterpillar rudely blows smoke into her face while asking, “Who. Are. Youuuuu? And why do you want to be any bigger than you are?” Then Alice was all, “Because I am not any good being three inches tall!” Then the caterpillar retorts back with, “What’s wrong with being three inches tall? Seems to be a perfectly reasonable size to me.”
Thank you, Mr. Caterpillar!
The caterpillar is the smartest character in this crazy tale.
Then when the caterpillar offers a piece of his mushroom for Alice to eat to make her big again, she takes it. Cosby strikes again! Not only is it not normally a good idea to take snack and/or beverages from strangers, his ass crack has been spread-eagle on this thing for who knows how long!
Why does every new scene of this movie begin with Alice being the wrong size? Who wrote this? And what is their deal? Poor Alice can’t go anywhere without someone telling her that she’s too big or too small, much like contemporary society! Aye!
Alice is ridiculed and bullied by various animals throughout the story. "Alice in Wonderland" is a story of growing up, reminding us that the mistakes we make are just as important as victories. And when it’s all said and done, everything turns out alright, and as it was always meant to be.
