Is Alice in Wonderland really about drugs? I was talking about it the other day and some things in there made me wonder. Like how she follows the white rabbit into the hole, when the white rabbit is code for LSD. Then she goes on a 'trip' to wonderland! Has anyone else saw this movie like that? I haven't seen the movie since I was a kid, what are the other things that happen that could be taken as associated with drugs? Thanks!
2007-05-25 20:36:18 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
hmmm? while i have a different view of the movie, it would take too much to explain. Let me just say that contrary to popular belief, wonderland is the real world, the other "real" world above is her childhood naive ity. the illusion, the shadows, the matrix whatever you want to call it. Wonderland see's through the illusion. It is through the looking glass.
One thing; few people have been able to give meaning to the Mad Hatter "it's always tea time." similar to 'we're all mad here' by cheshire cat
The mad hatter is an addict he can't stop and repeatedly does the same thing over and over. It's always tea time, always time for a hit, to party, to lie; always time to do that voodoo that you do.
2007-05-25 20:41:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is more about sex than drugs. The symbolism in that "The Walrus And The Carpenter" scene really reflects Lewis Carrol's desires to have sex with his 13-year-old lover. Certainly there was a lot of drug stuff in the movie and the books, but that just reflected the times the story was written in.
Back when Carrol was writing, morphine, heroin, and cocaine were sold legally over the counter. BTW that stuff about the white rabbit is only due to Jefferson Airplane's song which came out a decade after the movie was released.
2007-05-26 03:50:00 · answer #2 · answered by Kevin k 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No it was just a story to entertain some little girls that Lewis Carrol helped watch over. Is Whinie the Pooh about alcoholism? People read too much into things like that! Alice was written way before LSD was created!
2007-05-26 03:43:26 · answer #3 · answered by Matthew E 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When Alice in Wonderland was written LSD did not exist. Cocaine however was a popular "snuff" for English artstocrats. And Opium was also quite popular among the poor and elites alike during the Victorian era in England. Here is an url you can check: http://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/explain/alice816.html
2007-05-26 03:58:22 · answer #4 · answered by Looneytooner 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alice in wonderland was a book first. A children's book. It is only a children's movie and book that someone out there decided to make more out of it than there really was. You could take any book in the world and spin your own interpretation on it.
2007-05-26 03:45:57 · answer #5 · answered by Virginia C 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, the man who wrote the book, Lewis Carroll (or in acutallity, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) is said to have been doing drugs while writing the original book.
2007-05-26 03:49:30 · answer #6 · answered by thephalkinparadox 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
The author, Lewis Carroll was a mathematician, and a clergyman.
The drug myths appeared in the 60's.
2007-05-26 03:54:20 · answer #7 · answered by GambitGrrl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is a kids movie
please dont change the idea of the whole movie into something bad
it is a good movie when you dont think about that stuf i mean yah there are some weird and little odd parts but all together it is a good movie
2007-05-26 03:41:18 · answer #8 · answered by Kayline 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
no i think she got a bang on the head with an apple, that can make me go a bit crazy.
2007-05-26 03:39:18 · answer #9 · answered by Applecrumble 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the catapillar smokes out of a hooka
2007-05-26 03:38:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋