The princess of always spruces herself up with woke cosmetics

Disney is once again making its catalog profitable with a new image version. real of Snow White with the corresponding songs and narratives adapted to the current times and the economic needs of the project. Sinister witches and chilling moments aside, the 1937 film was very much geared towards children. The most concrete romantic plot incorporated into the remake It lends a certain dramatic weight to the inexplicable infatuation of the previous work, while also injecting elements aimed at an audience approaching adolescence (while providing a vision of love as a more egalitarian process of mutual improvement and inspiration). Boys who aren't inclined to be interested in princesses will be able to identify with a kind of imperfect Robin Hood immersed in a struggle against tyranny. This plot livens up (or slows down?) an otherwise well-formed narrative that moves along at a somewhat ponderous pace and is unlikely to be memorable.

The process of modernization has its limits. Snow White It is still a fairy tale that speaks of good aristocrats who collaborate with their subjects (Frozen 2, at least, questioned the mythologizing of history). Given the American political context, it seems like another highly commercial Hollywood film criticizing an evil authoritarian with a Trumpian air (like Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes). The paradox is that the narrative assumes an inertia that Trump might agree with: arguing that the solution is to restore idealized pasts. Let's make the monarchy absolute. great again?