Alice

I saw "Alice In Wonderland," the new Tim Burton one, last night. Being a Tim Burton movie, the visuals were excellent. The story was... interesting. Why, exactly, does Alice need to take up a sword and kill something? Why does a story which is a struggle involving three females have to end in a battle? Why does Alice have to settle for being your typical male fantasy world protagonist, instead of something much curioser? Why does she have to settle for being a man in a man's world?
Also, the White Queen seemed... troublesome. She yanks Alice in to do the dirty work (killing) and then reaps the benefits. You see, it's against the Queen's values to kill. So the next time something like this happens, she yanks in another champion, and another, and another... The moral consequences of war are farmed off to a warrior class. If Alice had to slay a person in order to save Wonderland instead of a dragon I think this issue would have become much more apparent.
I think, maybe, it has some real world relevance. Then again, maybe not.