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hen a movie poster trumpets
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“From the producers of Alice
in Wonderland,” we should see that as
a bright and telling signpost: The fi lm to
come will be full of brief fl ashes and thin
shadows, hollowness and pretty costumes,
a mass-produced print hung in an antique
frame.
Snow White and the Huntsman looks
like the dark, capital-S Serious fl ipside to
March’s Mirror, Mirror, though Tarsem
Singh had a better handle on the story’s
emotional complexities. This one opts for a
rather more Narnian take: Early in the fi lm,
poor Snow (Kristen Stewart), locked away
in a tower for something like a decade,
recites the Lord’s Prayer as she lights
her fi re. This is your cue, darlings. Snow
White is totally Jesus. She’s the chosen
one, the spirit of life, the very embodiment
of purity, and all will be in her kingdom as
it is in heaven.
There is, actually, something to be said
for someone — someone more creative and
brave than the makers of this fi lm — wildly
reinterpreting “Snow White” as a feminist
Jesus, but this movie doesn’t do that. It just
sloppily crosses the streams of myth and
fairy tale with no regard for logic, sense or
good storytelling. The nonsensical things in
Snow White and the Huntsman range from
the silly (how does a girl locked in a tower
for so long know how to stay on a galloping
horse?) to the borderline offensive: There’s
something deeply uncomfortable about the
sight of Ian McShane, Toby Jones, Nick
Frost and others done up as dwarves. Was
their relative star power really so vital to the
fi lm?
Charlize Theron growls and shouts and
glowers as an underwritten evil queen;
Stewart is a passable Snow, but Snow is a
blank slate of innocence. It’s hard to attach
anything to her other than a ribbon sash
proclaiming her goodness. Evil wants her
heart, good wants her on the throne and
the Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) gives
her the advantage. Hemsworth, playing
a drunken lout with stubbly, sensitive
abandon, swings an axe and lets his hair get
greasy with equal enthusiasm, and it’s not
his fault the fi lm is so certain it’s getting a
sequel that it doesn’t fi nish his story.
It barely fi nishes its own story, for that
matter. Director Rupert Sanders, in his
fi rst feature fi lm, is perfectly competent at
pretty, Lord of the Rings-infl uenced shots
of travelers traipsing across the land (these
shots make little sense unless you assume it
always takes twice as long to leave a Dark
Forest as it does to enter it). He does a nice
thing or two with a bridge troll and some
CGI birds, but much of the fi lm — action
sequences and otherwise — is repetitive
and choppy, and never more so than at
the end, when good defeats evil, puts on
a pretty dress and calls it a day without so
much as a graceful speech. When you’re
Jesus/Aslan/the Chosen One, I guess you
assume we’ve heard it all before.
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Directed by Rupert Sanders. Screenplay by
Evan Daugherty; screen story by Daugherty,
John Lee Hancock and Hossein Amini.
Cinematography, Greig Fraser. Editors,
Conrad Buff IV and Neil Smith. Music, James
Newton Howard. Starring Kristen Stewart,
Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth.
Universal Pictures, 2012. PG-13. 127 minutes.
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