HaVe YoU lOsT yOuR MuChNeSS??

How could I possible know if I’ve lost it or not when I actually don’t know what muchness means? I know this might be the first question that crosses your mind, so let’s start from the beginning by clarifying what muchness means or at least get close to it.

Tim Burton has become a legend for the movies world by his dark, mysterious, tricky, twisted, different way to tell us a story. And yes, I’m his fan too. So as a good fan I just couldn’t lose the chance to see his version of this classic fable Alice in Wonderland.

My expectations were totally high towards this movie; I just couldn’t wait for the premier day. And the day finally came!!! So, I went to see the movie. And for my very own surprised I found not only what I was expecting to see, but even more. As the original story was meant to be, it’s full of metaphors of our life, or at least I want to think it was like that.

Now, what does it have to do with the muchness?? Alright, that was one of my favorite phrases in the movie. In this scene where the Hatter meets Alice for the second time, he asks her a serie of question concerning her abilities, and at the end of the conversation, quite disappointed by her answers, he just says: “You used to be much muchier before. Yes you were much more Alice the last time we met. You have lost your muchness” … Alright, i forgot to mention it before, but this Alice we’re talking about now is a 19 years old young lady now and about to marriage a guy she dislikes for her family health. It’s not the girl that was once at Wonderland, taking with the flowers, following a rabbit and singing the very merry unbirthday just for fun. Now she thinks that was just a dream… ‘cuz real life, that’s another stuff.

So, what’s real life?? How do we lose ourselves to sometimes unrecognizable people? How do we lose our muchness??? I think I found the answers hidden in the movie as well… One scene present those who belong to the court of the Red Queen with some anomalies, and that’s why they were accepted in that place, but at the end all these things were as false as the own red kingdom. Now, my question is, do we lose our muchness to become strangers even to ourselves just to be accepted in a false kingdom too?? Sometimes we do, sometimes we do!!

I hate Stilettos… I really do!! I mean they’re lovely, and we look totally different by wearing them, the right ones of course, but it darm hurts while wearing them… do you think we don’t know that?? Ohh we do, but still do it because because… and the same goes to surgeries, some clothes, hair styles and make up… all that is part of a “beautifying” process, beautifying to whom?? To you? To someone else? To the false kingdom? Why? Honestly, I have not the answer to that question. I’m a fan of makeup and fashion, so I’m part of that “beauty” world; and still I couldn’t avoid to feel at some point like that woman with the fake nose in her hand trying to justify why she was wearing it and pointing the others to “save” herself at the same time… quite disappointing feeling!

What am I going to do about it?? That’s another hard question to answer. Probably nothing, because at some point I just can’t deny I like that girl on the stilettos, suffering for the cause… the cause of feeling accepted, part of the group, admired, and sometimes just sometimes love too. But what I can do, it’s also bring this tennis shoes on my Versace bag and switch my shoes right just when the DJ plays the first song, and ENJOY the rest of the party getting back my muchness again… what do you think???