The Cactus created Wonderland with Alice in it

in OCD4 years ago (edited)

It was about time...

Relax mode: Physically
Mad mode: Mentally

Not that I've been exercising lately; Relax mode mostly last so many weeks; Yet tired body of all the work stress I suppose.

Mentally? Well! That one needed some overhaul to allow some happy vibes going through my veins again.

What better than to finally - after skipping it for more then a few times - watch the movie "Alice in Wonderland". Not just one of the versions: Nope! The One by the great Tim Burton! This guy is always good for some out of the ordinary visuals.

I never read the story of miss Alice. Never watched any version cartoon or movie. Seems about time I had a peak into the magical Wonderland. Lewis Carroll - the writer - must have thought the same. After she gets a proposal to marry some Lord, he sends Alice into the woods where she finds herself falling into a seemingly endless tunnel ending up right in the middle of Wonderland. A world in which everything seems to be different but still kinda the same as where Alice, Lewis, you and I come from.

Is Wonderland real? Or is it merely a dream?

Alice thinks the later. But is she right? Some cat showed not to be so fond of her and Alice ends up with a couple large scratches to her upper arm. I think Alice was not dreaming; Instead...

Alice was tripping!

Though Tim - and likely also Lewis - didn't mention any cactus, Alice must have tripped over a gigantic cactus when running through the woods. By accident - or simply coincidence - she must have consumed some of the cactus fluid to allow the imagination to run wild as hell. No boundaries at all! ...Of course, the scratches!

I can tell you: I've had some weird dreams, but never as weird as Wonderland. That said: A can recall a few that comes close, but thats a totally different topic for another post.


The magic of the Cactus - image: published at Stocksy (source)

Anyways... When Alice was created in mind and put down on paper back in the 1860's, my theory is that it was not just the imagination of Lewis gone wild. It must have been a cactus that added the extra dimension to the imagination. How else can one come up with such out-of-the-ordinary story? More than one and half century later, master Tim must have had the same 'accident'.

I do wonder how Tim was able to copy his mind trip onto screen. Did he had his hands on a brain machine that reads the mind and transforms whatever it reads to visuals coded by a seemingly endless stream of zero and ones?

I know, I know, I sound silly.

Or?


Can you imagine? Maybe it wasn't a cactus? Maybe Lewis and Tim ate a little bit too many mushrooms? - image: published at IGN Southeast Asia (source)


Throughout the trip, Alice constantly grows bigger and smaller, induced by some drink or food. As big as the eyes of Mad Hatter (great performance by Johnny Depp), as little Alice is when she is finding her ways through Wonderland - image: published at One Room with a View (source)


The evil queen with a gigantic head with her entire staff also having some body parts being totally out of proportion. Cactus at work! - image: published at Popsugar Australia (source)

7 and half out of 10 I give it. IMDB downplays it a bit though: 6,4 out of 10. But who cares! Only a few 100's of thousands contributors to the rating; Easily manipulated! The 6,4 is simply "Fake News". It's not real. It's imaginative. Applying Schrödinger's Cat, the IMDB rating doesn't exist when one doesn't look at it. So....don't look at it!

NJOY the TRIP

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