I went to see Alice in Wonderland at last; it was quite entertaining & MUCH more enjoyable than any stuffy Lewis Carroll tome I was ever forced to read during my youth. (Johnny Depp reciting the opening lines of Jabberwocky was fun to hear!) Upon leaving the theater with my youngest, I recalled that the book was originally interpreted as a satire on Victorian society & politics (e.g. "jolly caucus races," a decapitation-crazed female monarch obsessed with red roses vs white ones, interminable tea parties featuring a loopy milliner, a randy rabbit, & a ditzy rodent). I had to explain to her that the queen in question at the time was Victoria, not Elizabeth (who actually DID live in the era of decapitation as punishment, which was carried out on her own mum!).
Glad we are quite far removed from some of the Victorian social conventions that are presented as "fashionable" in the film (to say nothing of the decapitation if you screw up bit!).
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