Alice and Alice

Abstract

Two Alices. One follows a rabbit and falls into a hole that seems to have no end, enters into another world, a world out of control, out of context, a world never seen before. The other does not fall anywhere, she only exists in the world. In this world. A world under control? Within the context? It would appear so. But Alice is only ten years old, what would she know about the control and the context of the world, besides the reference that those older and supposedly wiser give her? However, for the adults surrounding her, the world is not under control, their own lives are not. Alice, far from being naive knows that, and thus, her world turns confused, or rather, it turns confused by the complexity of adult relationships that she must undergo. The Alices and their small bodies immersed in these uncontrolled worlds turn their problematic situation into a ludic situation, a game, a playing, within the ease of doing this kind of reversal that only children and the so called crazy have. Thus, Alice and Alice makes a crossing between these two distant worlds characters, but close at the same time. One Alice literature, the other film. One Lewis Carroll, the other Wim Wenders. This essay investigates the relation regarding to the similarities and the discrepancies between the two forms of language, but mainly, the relation between the conditions of the two girls. Based on Deleuze's thought on the reversal of Cartesian thought examined on Carroll’s book, this work will ponder the situations experienced by Wenders’ Alice and consider the possibility that real life can be full of paradoxes, games and situations that move away from reasoning.