recent trend in film narrative have witness the proliferation of multiple petite narrative involve a series of inter relate character who be all inter connect in some way represent pioneer by short cut and follow by the like of pulp fiction and happiness and and the more recent magnolia . in their deliberate and manifest fragmentation and they immediately seem to offer a schizophrenic view of society and the life depict within it . yet to interpret these film a such and only that would be to misunderstand the overall logic of these film . in their very diversity and they seem to offer an overall world view and whether it be clear cut or oblique and in which the character in these film be all part of the same condition . whether damn ( a in happiness ) or redemptive ( a in magnolia ) and their world view be ever present . it be with wonderland that we have a film which play with this tension and i think and more skillfully than the aforementioned film . the film be primarily about the life of three sister ( and their friend and partner and family and etc . ) living in london and who be all disparate in term of their personality and lifestyle . winterbottom message and intimate by the title and be to show that they be all alices in wonderland . it be about come to term with this predicament and express their emotion about it and that the film ably deal with . shoot his film on location with a shaky hand hold camera in brutally realist hue and winterbottom reveals a london full of life a background sharply contrast by the three woman push against it and highlight their increase loneliness and alienation and whether they accept it or not . like magnolia and the first half of the film trace their predicament ( each in powerfully unique way ) a it slowly reach towards a discernible crisis point in which these sister be force to accept fate . not want to laud the film too much on the basis of these humanist ideal and one must understand it with the notion of humanism in mind a this be the level at which it work best . unlike happiness in which solondz wallow in the depravity of social misfit and winterbottom valiantly offer a redemptive glimpse of humankind and in which despite all adversity and there be still hope yet .