The much misunderstood Tideland

Too many people are too quick to judge Terry Gilliams latest adventure into the obscure, slamming it as being sickening, gratuitously disturbing and altogether bleak.
there is a case for describing the film as being all of the above, granted, however, until the intent of Gilliams depictive Alice in Wonderland tale is acknowledged, I believe the film remains massively misconstrued.
Its a dark and disturbing tale of a little girl from a treacherously broken home where she resides with her two junkie parents and escapes mostly through her imagination. The life she leads is one that stirrs emotions and disgust amongst the audience, with graphic and disturbing images of her preparing the needles for her Daddy's "Vacations" and painfully enduring her chocoholic junkie Mother's grotesque moodswings. Events lead to her Father (Bridges) taking her with him to live in a run down old house in the middle of nowhere. Here. her imagination is set loose like it never has been before.
Here's the catch with all the naysaying...
If you're watching this movie through adult eyes, then you're watching it with completely the wrong kind of eyes. Gilliam's intention here was not to placate the audience by spoonfeeding a fairytale life of an imaginitive young girl with a start middle and end, rather, the film is a depiction of the events that transpire in Jeliza-Rose's (Jodelle Ferland) life through her own eyes. To this end, although he never openly asks it of us, Gilliam intends for audiences to cast off the adult eyes they see with every day, and adopt the childs eyes that are still inside every one of us.
You simply cannot enjoy this film to its full potential unless you adhere to the idea that we're looking at things the way a child would see them - flowered with imagination that can be blunt and often difficult to stomach, but so inherant of the way children behave naturally through their very innocence.
I for one, although often troubled by the imagery within the film, am glad to be challenged by cinema, and challenging is a sedate way of describing what Gilliam delivers here.
I couldn't recommend this to very many people, but I would advise that anyone going to see it be as open and non judgemental as feasibly possible. I can't call it an enjoyable film, but a necessary film most definately it is.
Peace...