^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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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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I never got a lesbian vibe. This sounds like your projecting your own fantasies onto it.

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:

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Actually, it's kind of the opposite.
Claudia wanted Lili's beauty so that she could keep her husband's favor. She felt (probably correctly) that he preferred Lili to her.

Trying to make something out of nothing

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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"sinister element of a Lesbian undertone"
May be the greatest thing I've ever read
and no.

Yeah no, I didn't get that. And I'm a lesbian.

You're reading away too much.
She wanted to kill Lilly and destroy everything Lilly cared about.

If indeed people "lusting after the beauty of another woman" was consided a sign of homosexuality then we'd all be homosexuals, which in my eyes is not a bad thing personaly i dont mind. I'm pro-homosexuals! i think their cool, and I'm not a hater
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I think it was more of a jealousy thing. The stepmother wanted so much to be as beautiful as Lilly. Lilly could always gain her father's attention at the drop of a hat because of her likeness to her mother, while Claudia had to scrape for every bit of attention. I think that people read WAY too much into trying to make something homosexual when it is not.

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lusting after the beauty of another woman? that's not homosexual at all.
i don't think it says anything bad about lesbians if there's a lesbian undertone to the charactersno need to be defensive.

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I think you're reading way too much into it.