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Švankmajer's excellent Surrealist adaptation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Něco z Alenky (1988), really exposes the adherence to logic and narrative cohesion in both the Disney and Burton film versions of the story.
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Where Burton and Disney are fairy tales, Švankmajer's Alice is a dream tinged with nightmare complete with the horrifying dream-logic of the unconscious.
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It's also quietly subversive in its depiction of the stuffed animals and 'living' taxidermy slowly leaking stuffing throughout: life as a continual process of decay. Even the food in the film is tied to images of corruption and necrosis.