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I’m in Wonderland
Once again I’m ready to recall happy pages from my childhood as i find them scattered around my brain. When other girls played with barbies and washed their hair, I never played with mine, I would put them up as trophies idolizing my “Feminity” and burning the ones I didn’t like.
I loads of books, I hated the books that came with pictures because I didn’t give my mind anything to do, from the beginning of time my reality made room for my active imagination. Alice in Wonderland was my favorite book, then came Beauty and The Beast i liked how cruel he was to her before he got kind, but that’s a different blog.
When I was asked to plan the Launch party For Club Privilege i thought immediately I could live out my childhood fantasy as my grown up Fantasy wasn’t fit for a club Opening, :). I had the wait staff dressed in costumes from the book and had patrons drinking from tiny tea cups, i felt like a little girl who had fallen down a rabbit hole.
But the more I understand the story the more I realize I’m nothing like Alice at all but very similar to the mad hatter, sane in my own Insanity and completely misunderstood. Essentially the Mad Hatter is painted to be a character who is stuck in time, tea time. He is unaware of his reality around him and engages in a ever going tea party with a bunch of other characters who seem to have their own mental issues. So it seems to the public, but reading the story over and over you realize the Mad Hatter is a character with many different woes and he hides in his insanity even though he is well aware of whats happening around him. The book to kill a Mocking Bird, had a character with similar attributes in it, a man who would drink a coca cola camouflaged in a brown paper bag, which the public assumed to be alcohol thus allowing him the freedom to say whatever he wanted under the false pretense of being drunk.
I haven’t watched the movie yet but I cant wait to see how the writer interprets the whole thing.
