Švankmajer's film Something from Alice is a tribute to Carroll's immense imagination, but at the same time an excuse to develop his own imagination to a lesser degree. It is the author's recollection of his childhood, and at the same time an attempt to evoke the experience of childhood in the audience. Surrealists have always equated infantile perception of the world with poetic intuition or the thinking of members of indigenous cultures. All these forms of human mentality are far from the shackles of a logical and conceptual understanding of reality, in which there is no place for imagery, which is a much needed means of counteracting the corruption of the human spirit. If the director has reserved for the character of Alice the space of a child's room for her games, the space he has reserved for his imagination in the film is a dream. That is, the phenomenon on which the surrealists decided to prove that the reality that surrounds man is only a fragment of his life, which is supplemented by unexplored areas of the unconscious into a full-fledged whole - surreality. Something from Alice demonstrates the connection between reality and dream very eloquently. When the girl wakes up at the end of the film, we realise that the whole adventure took place during her sleep. Except for one small detail: the terrarium is really broken and the rabbit is really gone - the dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream. André Breton, the founder of surrealism, defined this state of interpenetration in terms of "continuous vessels".
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