Snow White, Rewritten in a Minor Key
Despite the film’s efforts to reframe its heroine with modern complexity, a certain emotional distance lingers.

An irresistible desire for a card game turned out to be the lot of a poor man, a father of two children. Every time, he grits his teeth and tells himself: I won't play, I won't play… But the excitement turns out to be stronger than remorse and guilt in front of his wife and hungry children. "It's obvious that my fate is like this and I can't get away from it," he justifies himself to himself and ... loses his last bull.
Despite the film’s efforts to reframe its heroine with modern complexity, a certain emotional distance lingers.
This year, in light of the pandemic and the inability to gather with our loved ones, a few of our staff members reviewed their favorite holiday films with the hope of recreating some of the sentimentality that reminds us of home.
Disney has cleverly managed to dance around the misdeeds of their past by scraping by with an insincere action that does very little to incite any long-lasting positive changes.
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Seeing that the film was essentially his first big, mainstream feature, and with garnering a leading role — portraying the revolutionary ball-player Jackie Robinson — Boseman, without question, delivered a performance that is still so incredibly moving, respectful, genuine, and true to the core of his obviously sincere, artistic heart; and with that, it is indeed so saddening to see him pass.