Response to Snow White

It has been a long time since I watched the full version of Snow White, and it is quite different than how I remember it. Sure, I remembered the basics that Snow White was supposed to be killed by the huntsman, he could not do it, so he told her to hide in the forest, she comes upon the dwarves' house and cleans it.  She then meets the dwarves and tells her story, and she promises to cook and clean for them; then the evil queen finds out that Snow White is alive and puts herself in disguise to give the poison apple to Snow White. She eats it, Snow White falls into a slumber, the evil queen is killed, and the prince comes and restores Snow White with a kiss. I knew the basics of the story, but a lot of the songs and scenes I really didn't remember.  For example the opening scene Snow White was a maid cleaning the castle and she sings the song about making a wish, and then the prince comes in.  I never remembered that the prince was in the beginning of the story at all. Or that they had a love song in the beginning. I also did not remember that all the animals had helped her find the dwarves' house. I thought of the animals always on the sidelines helping her clean and cook. I also did not remember that they were the ones who got the dwarves to come back because the evil queen was trying to convince Snow White to eat the poisoned apple.  By watching this movie again, my view of Snow White has changed again.  Before I knew about the misogynistic viewpoints of Snow White and how the movie was trying to portray a patriarchal society.  However, just seeing the movie illustrates how much this opinion influences the movie.  Snow White is 14 years old in the movie and she is singing about finding true love. She is very young and illustrates the misconception of the time that in order for a woman to be worthy she has to be domestically talented and marry a successful man. The dwarves also let her stay with them in her house because she is domestically talented as well.  This perception that women are only good for cooking and cleaning, is an idea I saw more clearly and more defining with every scene that happened in the movie.  Snow White absolutely does nothing of importance in this movie, neither do really any of the other characters.  None of the characters have defining personalities or characteristics that makes them even remotely similar to any of the audience.  The only possible argument to make to that is the seven dwarves, but even then, their personalities are just one characteristic that defines any normal human being. Sleepy, Happy, Sneezy, Grumpy, Bashful, and Dopey are all version of what we feel or a characteristic we could have at one point of our lives. Doc, the dwarf that has a different type of name, is the voice of reason of the movie and illustrates what a child should do, listen to their mother.  This film is very simplistic and ideal and trying to portray the characteristics of an ideal American family.

Now I realize why after my childhood I never watched Snow White again.  It is a very bad Disney movie for any individual to watch who is not a child. There are just so many things wrong with the film, with the ideas they portray and just with the animation.  Even though for when it was created, the animation was beyond its time, to the current generation, it seems very lame and very simple animation. Honestly, I would never watch this film again because even after two minutes of rewetting Snow White, I was so very bored, and the movie just seemed dull. Snow White's high pitched voice also seemed very annoying during the film and is not what like anyone I know sounds like. Although it was good to watch Snow White again when I am old enough to understand what all the subtext is in the movie, I would honestly never watch this movie again