OPINION:
Disney’s new, live-action reconceptualization of the 1937 animated “Snow White” has spawned numerous commentaries regarding the film’s eagerness to accommodate a hypersensitive, thin-skinned, politically correct society antipathetic to multiperspectivity.
As Peter Suderman writes in a recent Reason Magazine piece: “The long-delayed remake is a flat, limp, relentlessly boring film, strung along by bland, uninspiring songs. … The entire movie is as if the screenplay was given a write-through by Sen. Bernie Sanders … The problem isn’t that it’s woke. It’s that it’s awful — and lamely, bluntly socialist.”
The creativity, talent and imagination of Disney films past have been replaced by virtual, artificial visualization, and perhaps that’s why the movie industry can’t steer clear of plagiarizing from the classics of the Golden Age of Hollywood. The latest “Snow White” is just another disappointing, mediocre redo.
RICK KNIGHT
Henrico, Virginia
Please read our comment policy before commenting.