Ever have one of those days when no
matter how hard you try to be rational, pleasant, and productive, the universe
seems to hate you? You walk out the door and a pigeon poops on your head? You cross the street and a cab
splashes you? You show up for work and everyone blames you for every snafu?
Relax. At least you are not the 2025 film Snow White.
Snow White is a musical fantasy produced by Walt
Disney Pictures. Marc Webb directs. Erin Cressida Wilson wrote the screenplay.
Her best-known work is Secretary, an explicit exploration of a
sadomasochistic relationship between a submissive secretary and her dominant
boss. The songs "Heigh ho," and "Whistle While You Work,"
from the 1937 Snow White, but with new lyrics, re-appear. The song "Someday
My Prince Will Come" is cut. Lyrics to new songs in the film are by EGOT-winners
Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. Snow White is 109 minutes long. It opened in
the U.S. on March 21, 2025.
Some scenes in Snow White put a smile on my face and made me laugh out loud. I'd rate the film three out of five stars. What handicaps Snow White is not so much Woke, as it is the Disneyfication of the source material. More on that, below, after a bit of background.
