Alice in Wonderland demanded a sequel. Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016, USA) begins where Wonderland left off.

The connection with the past isn’t left there.

There’s a whole story about the past. After again escaping the real world, Alice is back in Underland. Her mission is to save the Mad Hatter’s family because the Hatter is depressed about losing them all those years ago. So she time travels, trying to change the past for the Mad Hatter’s benefit.

The point is to change the past so the future can be better, if Alice can turn back time. If being the imperative word.  We know she can’t, though trying to change what happened in the past is her mode of operation in this film.

Is the impossible possible?

Human beings live in the one world with all its facets and problems.

Will Alice Through the Looking Glass commit to following through on its premise of being able to change the past?

In real life, people cannot change the past, as life happens.

People tend to make changes when they must, such as when life spirals out of control.

Yet wouldn’t it be great if some things could have been prevented before they got out of control, or decisions which weren’t that good were stalled until something better was thought of.

This is why the message of Alice Through the Looking Glass and another time travel film Back to the Future is really a good one. They show us that if we make changes before it’s too late, life could be better. Therefore this message is to “think twice”.

If that can’t be done, there’s a catchy phrase in the film: “The impossible is possible!”

Alice Through the Looking Glass is released to DVD on October 18, 2016, in the USA/Canada