Lesbian Undertone?
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Barbara-4 — 17 years ago(November 03, 2008 07:41 AM)
This is always the lot of women in film. It can never be that one woman wants what another has - power, a business, money. No, it's all about beauty, or lack of it.
Well, that's because when these fairy tales were first written, that's all women had, their looks. They weren't allowed to work and were totally unintersting because they knew nothing of the world.
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dnnn1 — 13 years ago(March 15, 2013 08:39 AM)
Beauty, the mother (not stepmother) and cannibalism, it's in the original tale.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White#Variations
'Now the queen, believing that she had eaten Snow White's heart, could only think that she was again the first and the most beautiful woman of all. She stepped before her mirror and said: -
ricky_says_hi — 12 years ago(December 29, 2013 07:14 PM)
Actually I sensed more of an
incest
vibe from it. Lilli wears her mother's gown to the ball and does herself up to resemble her mother's portrait. Friederich reacts a little weirdly to it. He says "you look so like her" and immediately requests a dance. The way it's presented makes it look like he sees his late wife and is trying to recreate memories of her, using Lilli as a substitute because they look so similar. And Claudia takes it as if Friederich had danced with another woman rather than his daughter. There's also the subtext that makes it seem like Claudia and Lilli are competing for his affections as two romantic rivals. The scene where the young Lilli catches them kissing, the girl looks a little jealous. And she throws the oil at Claudia when she is in the marriage bed.
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mference123 — 11 years ago(August 09, 2014 09:00 AM)
^this.
I enjoy homoerotic subtext, but I'm not seeing it at all in this movie.
But seeing how Daddy reacts to the Lilli wearing Mom's dress creeped me out a lot.
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