Movies: Alice in Wonderland

             Movies can sometimes transport your mind to a place where all your problems vanish. For those two hours or so, you forget the world exists and concentrate on that story line.

               

           You can all deny it, but everybody has a childhood movie. You can be 80 years old but you’ll still scream at the top of your lungs when the first song of that Disney or Pixar movie plays. I do it… More often than I should honestly. Without realizing it, there was a movie that marked me as a child and until this day I get on my pajamas, lock myself up in my room and watch Alice in Wonderland over and over all day long. Since the “movie” topic is too extended I’m going to emphasize on that particular movie.

               

         

      When I was little, my grandmother bought me the Alice in Wonderland book by Lewis Caroll and after that I found out about the movie. At that age I loved it because of the colors and all the weird species that lived together in harmony (except for the Red Queen of course). The amazing Cheshire cat always appearing in just the right moment, The White Rabbit so… weird, The Mad Hatter so innocent and loyal, and the forever lost but hopeful Alice. I looked at the movie hoping to be Alice, one day living an ordinary life and out of the blue a bunny comes to the rescue and turning my life into an adventure.

               

        

      I stopped watching it for a while but when I watched it again it was another story. It changed me forever since I got another perspective of it besides the colors and weird creatures. It showed me that I should not be afraid to express my own personality and I should challenge my creativity, like the Cheshire cat said: “The imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality”. I’ve always been a weirdo in the eyes of the world but that doesn’t stop me from expressing it in my art work.

                

       

     

      Sometimes the little things in life are the ones who give us the motivation, courage and strength to continue with our daily lives. This is not my case, I honestly have another reason to live, but movies like this one definitely give me that extra push I need to be the person I wish to become.