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...height of the Vietnam War, Arlo Guthrie wrote a song about littering. The song, “Alice??s Restaurant,” tells the story of a young man who is called before the draft board only to discover that an arrest for littering a few years back makes him ineligible to serve in the Vietnam War, a war he detests. The narrator, asked if he’s rehabilitated himself after his crime, loses his cool. “You got a lot a damn gall,” he explodes...
...very queer!” Alice??s reaction to Wonderland appropriately sums up the aftertaste of Hal Harltey’s new film, No Such Thing. Whereas the usual Hollywood fare aims for gargantuan laughs, chilling fear or blubbering tears, No Such Thing offers hard-edged dreaminess and bemused chuckles. Experienced through the fatalistic eyes of young Beatrice, played by Canadian Sarah Polley, our world is scarily believable as a topsy-turvy purgatory...
...monster. (You’ve seen these bad scientist/ good scientist types before, consider E.T. and A Beautiful Mind, respectively.) Overall, there is nothing particularly original about these stereotyped characters, but in the context of this monster fable, they seem as surreal and whimsical as the creatures from Alice??s Adventures in Wonderland...
...addition, Rockwell Church’s melodies are complex and incredibly diverse, making it difficult to pigeon-hole them as pure acoustic folk-rock: “Steady, Ready, Strong” could be Ben Folds Five tune, while a bridge of “I See Alice?? is reminiscent of the Beatles...
...phone, and hot water probably isn’t an issue, as they also lack a working bathtub. When it’s shower time, they pack their towels and deodorant into tote bags and head out to the public bathhouse for three yuan a visit. Alice??s reward for standing in front of a classroom about nine hours each week and sitting probably twice as long in an office is less than 1500 yuan per month...