summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden

[extemporanea]

I do enjoy going to movies with friends, honest I do, but there's a completely separate and idiosyncratic pleasure in going to movies by myself. Sunday mornings are my favourite time: if I'm lucky I'll be the only person in the theatre, and can dangle my feet over the chairs in front of me and comment on the action at the top of my voice without

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[strawberryfrog]

Britomart? I've never shopped there.

I always thought that a raven like a writing desk because Edgar Allen Poe wrote on both of them.

[extemporanea]

It's a general pastime of Western civilisation to invent possible answers to the raven/writing desk bit. Even Carroll himself did it, more or less in self-defense: "Because it can produce a few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is nevar put with the wrong end in front!" He says, though, that properly the riddle has no answer.

Re Britomart: smartarse. Have glossed it, just for you.

[strawberryfrog]

On the whole, I thought that it was an interesting but somehow flawed film. You, of course explained how it is flawed. And I agree, Alice was good in Armour.

[extemporanea]

I explained some of the ways I thought it was flawed. I'm happy if you agree, but I cheerfully admit that my narrative fetish does tend to render my reviews somewhat monotone in theme. If it ain't story structure, I ain't talking about it. Mostly.

[anonymous]

Yes, what you said, mostly. It's a worrying sign that the things I liked best were all technical; Alice's evolving costume (the armour was wonderful), the blending of animation and live action, the slow growing vegetation over the end credits.

scroob

[extemporanea]

I did love the costumes, and the way that Alice's shrinking/growing allowed them to play games with the clothes. I also loved those end credits, you think they're boring for the first little while, and then suddenly realise they've been growing on you...