POOR Alice Liddell. A little one of four sisters allowed to paddle down a stream with a bona fide mathematician (who chose the pen name Lewis Carroll), she found herself in 1865 immortalised in Alice in Wonderland.Those were innocent days. Carroll would probably today find himself in prison (he loved taking photographs of naked young girls, with the parents’ permission rarely withheld) as a paedophile.The Alice book made its namesake more famous than she wished. Then in years to come she was hailed as a precursor of surrealism, her adventures scoured for Freudian symbols. And Carroll was worshipped as a precursor of psychedelic trippiness and for his “nonsense” verse — imitated, parodied and recycled into the mad lyrics of John Lennon.Now Burton and Depp return to weirdness and a bizarre cinematic fable. Their stars are waning.The director of this excursion is Bobin, but he has learnt from Burton and Depp and woven in visions that could have sprung from the recent science fiction fi...
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