Fairy tales are good to think with.
Compact yet also capacious, with
roots in myth, they were engineered
to accommodate changes in cultural
values and conflicts. “Snow White”
is no exception. Rupert Sanders’s
film “Snow White and the
Huntsman” the latest version of the
tale, takes us into a wilderness of
environmental depredations and
dynastic conflict. Charlize Theron’s
fair-haired wicked queen presides
over subjects with ravaged faces in
landscapes that resemble toxic oil
spills; in her shape-shifting magic,
she reconstitutes herself at one point
from what looks like a flock of crows
caught in...
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