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I haven't seen the film, and have no plans to see it. The NYT review
just butchered it.
This is about the book, which I love.
The book is satire. When Alice falls down the well, he is poking fun at the British rote education system. She knew facts, but had not the slightest idea what to do with them.
The line, 'you have to go twice as fast just to stay in the same place' describes the fate of people living in an aging empire quite nicely, as does the Mad Hatters tea party.
The book is full of, well, stuff. You need to know what he's talking about, since he's doing (among other things) topical satire. But there are ruminations about philosophy and math, as well.
What the book doesn't have is developed characters. You could update it,
and do contemporary satire using the book as a sort of template.
But that would whittle the audience down to me and JR.
Oh well.
read the book, skip the movie.
the book is one of the great gifts of literature.
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