Mussafer Snow White Film (Disney)

I was surprised by how similar the Grimms story is to Disney's version. Before I rewatched the movie, I thought that the stories would be similar but Disney's version would be much less dark, however, this was not the case. The film may have seemed less dark to me when I first watched this movie as a 7 or 8 year old, but there are many references that I am only now seeing. When the evil queen is making the apple poisonous, there is a skeleton reaching for water. I don't know if there is much significance to it but it was just a little offputting. Also, the queen repeats that if Snow White is not kissed, then she will be buried alive. This is a very horrifying thought and seems pretty intense for a children's movie.
The queen says that in order for Snow White to be revived, she must receive "loves first kiss". This seems to refer to the importance of virginity and purity. Snow White is the essence of innocence and purity and she is seen as the most beautiful in the land. The story references the fact that beauty is connected to purity and seems to imply that if one is not pure/innocent anymore (premarital sex), then they are no longer beautiful. Snow White is put in a case to be shown off so everyone can see her untouched, pure beauty. While the glass case acts as a coffin, in society it could symbolize the want to keep girls locked away, unable to be touched, leaving girls innocent and pure.

Throughout the entire film, Mother Nature helps Snow White: the animals are constantly helping her clean, cook, and try to warn Snow White and the dwarves of the Queen disguised as an old woman. In the end, when the dwarves are chasing after the Queen, the Queen is about to throw a boulder onto the dwarves, lightning strikes, sending the evil Queen into the abyss. As I have just written about, Snow White symbolizes purity, and just as she is pure, so is Nature. Nature helps Snow White and the dwarves because they are all innocent and pure.

Overall I enjoyed the movie but I definitely thought it was a little slow. When you are little you would never pick up on something like that but I think I lost interest a little faster when I rewatched it as I knew what was going to happen. I also thought that while the movie was slow, the ending was very fast. The prince kissed her and the next thing you know she is riding away into the sunset with him. I know that I could go into a lot of detail about how unrealistic it is and how wrong it is for her to go with this stranger that she had barely even spoken to... but this film and text are very old and times have now changed.