I must confess that I have never read/watched the original/complete "Alice in Wonderland," so my knowledge of the place is based on abridged stories and hearsay.
That said, Quentin, like Alice, is a displaced individual in a foreign land, in which his rules (Southern chivalry codes) do not apply. Besides the fact that it does not play by his rules, it is also quite surreal - there are meaningless arguments about fish, creepy Italian girls, and nonsensical police officers. While they are all portrayed in a real world setting, each encounter is strange and somewhat unnatural. Alice, I believe, escapes this odd alternate reality by killing its tyrant, the Queen of Hearts, while Quentin attempts and fails to defeat time, which I suppose could be the tyrant of reality.
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