I was never interested before
about fairy tales, especially that of intended for the pleasure of most kids.
But now I started to change my very perception towards it and thus beginning to
fall in love.
The change of mind set was
brought about by certain influences mainly number one from our little daughter
Althea, who loves watching fairy tales. I am not supposed to see it, but
because I was inside the house while she was viewing it, I was left with a
choice but to see it.
It came to my senses that every
fairy tales has a wonderful story to tell, not to mention the valuable lessons
it leaves us all. When I was young I am more familiar with “Mga Kuwento ni Lola
Basyang”, (fairy tales of Lola Basyang), mainly because it was all in Tagalog.
Another reason for that happens
after seeing the movie “Mirror, Mirror”, it was a foreign film that attempted
to narrate the story in a different manner.
Obviously, the movie is not in
cartoon, it features Oscar winner Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen and newcomer
Lily Collins as Princess Snow White, and the handsome Prince Alcott, played by
Armie Hammer.
At first, what I have in mind it
was a film intended only for kids. But I was happy to see that it was a well
act and well written film.
I was completely out of my usual
thinking that “Snow White’s “ queen step-mother is just mad at her because
she’s at all more gorgeous than her. But more than that…the Evil Queen freaked
out to know that the handsome prince fell-in love with Snow White, plus the
fact that she’s the right successor for the thrown, and she cared more enough
for her subjects.
In the film, Mirror is not just a
simple hanging mirror on the wall, they’ve re-created a portal that leads to a
more beautiful mirror. It was also the beautiful Julia Roberts in the
reflection she was just dressed in white. Very wise, enchanting and has a
powerful spell. It was revealed here that the queen’s wishes to the mirror will
persecute her beauty at the end.
The story started to tell an
interesting fairy tales when the Prince appeared. He was tall, handsome, and a
little funny here. The Evil Queen Julia is broke here, and the only way she
could save her selfish self-drowning palace into poverty is by marrying the
prince.
This gave Julia a perfect reason
to kill Snow. But her trusted servants showed cowardness and run as fast as he
can when they were in the forest. That led Snow White to get to know the Seven Dwarfs.
There was a big lift to Dwarfs character here, they were all represented here
as bandits and thieves not miners along with their names as well.
This is not just a typical
timeless Snow White Fairy Tales since each characters has a twist you will
never see here Snow White eating an apple and later on fell into sleep and thus
follow the old fashioned way of story telling the Prince will arrived and will
soon be awaken with his kiss.
Costumes were great especially
that of Snow White and the Evil Queen Julia Roberts. The writer of the story
has an interesting way of showing how was beautification done during the era. Believe
me, I have never seen something like it before.
Over-all the movie Mirror Mirror,
were able to tell a beautiful story in comedy and light drama. Thus I am highly
recommending this to movie goers of all ages.
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