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| | Jan Svankmajer: Alice [Neco z Alenky] (1987) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20) |
 | | In a room cluttered with domestic objects, her attention is drawn to the glass cabinet containing a stuffed white rabbit, who comes to life, smashes his way out, and runs off across an adjoining field. |
 | | For his first feature-length film, Svankmajer's humour has been interestingly tested: at times it goes freewheeling off, one bizarre joke after another (although often cued by Carroll), like the wild inventiveness of the Hatter's tea party, in which an endless series of watches is swathed in butter. |
 | | But the ending, with Alice waiting to snip off the head of her treacherous 'teacher', is also balefully personal: she is now free from the tyranny of her elders, but the only power this realisation has given her is the power of destruction. |
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