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Is it about forgetting or never actually understanding until the end?

posted 8 years ago by blakkdog
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Did Alice never really get what it was Dodgson was trying to convey to her about never losing touch with the child in you and how much he cared for her? Or is it that she just forgot as she got older and is finally reminded in the build up to the speech and during the speech itself? Was the flashback we see where she goes up to him and hugs him after laughing at him and seems to genuinely appreciate what he did for her in creating an entire world for her actually something that the audience is to assume happened to Alice or was it a fantasy memory of her reaching into the past to show her genuine appreciation? I wasnt sure how to interpret that scene really. As a true memory or as a way of conveying that she (the awakened child Alice) appreciated Dodgson's love and effort.

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[–] PenTheater 8 years ago

I always took it as she is realizing HE was genuine and this is what she wished she had really done. She realized he really did love her, perhaps more than anyone else in the world loved her.

Ephemeron.