A fantasy blending a number of well tried themes. Doing magic with drops of blood. Knights in shining armour charging around on horses. Wicked step mothers (above left) in league with evil brothers. Dominant ladies who stab their husbands to death on their wedding bed. Beautiful ladies of a certain age who want to be beautiful for ever and who are prepared, to that end, to do very bad things (I associated both to the film 'She' of reference 5 and to the 'White Witch' of Narnia). Mirror, mirror on the wall. Clouds of ravens doing strange things. Fancy castles. Sieges and battles. Dark woods with magic, monsters and dwarves. Tall, dark strangers who start bad and end good. Virgin queens - a sort of blending of the young Elizabeth I and Joan of Arc.
A certain amount of plastic sex and rather more plastic violence, which I thought more or less neutralised by being plastic, but BH was not so sure about that. Lots of computer action.
Some agitation from the 'Little People of America' organisation about using the faces of full sized actors on small bodies. See reference 4.
A film which cost getting on for $200 million to make and which grossed getting on for $400 million. So a serious bit of speculation, but a speculation which came up trumps. Must need a long pocket and strong nerves to go in for this sort of thing.
Visually attractive and more or less content free in the sense of learning anything about the real world. But it plays well to all kinds of subterranean drives (see Freud). That said, I very much doubt if we will ever watch it again.
Reference 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White. The story according to the Brothers Grimm.
Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_and_the_Huntsman. The story of the film according to Wikipedia.
Reference 3: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1735898/. The story of the film according to IMDB.
Reference 4: https://www.lpaonline.org/.
Reference 5: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059710/. She and Ursula Undress.
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