2012 · adventure · fantasy · drama
Snow White and the Huntsman
Directed by Rupert Sanders2h 7m2012
After the Evil Queen marries the King, she performs a violent coup in which the King is murdered and his daughter, Snow White, is taken captive. Almost a decade later, a grown Snow White is still in the clutches of the Queen. In order to obtain immortality, The Evil Queen needs the heart of Snow White. After Snow escapes the castle, the Queen sends the Huntsman to find her in the Dark Forest.
Our read: Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive adventure · fantasy · drama entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured adventure / fantasy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
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