The thing about Indian film director Tarsem Singh is that he’s very much a visual filmmaker; take a look at his 2000 debut “The Cell” or last year’s “Immortals” and his keen dedication to catering to the viewer’s eyeballs is all too clear. And the thing about classical fairy tale “Snow White,” as written by the Brothers Grimm, is that it’s very much a traditional piece of storytelling, as was understood when Disney famously and faultlessly tackled the tale all the way back in 1937.
Combine the two (a narratively-challenged filmmaker and a good old-fashioned story), and that doesn’t seem like a very bright idea, although Relativity Media would beg to differ; the result, as evidenced in the newly released “Mirror Mirror,” is a film in dire need of both a sense of narrative coherency and a director who thinks in terms of telling a story, and telling it properly, not in terms of, “oh yeah, look at that gorgeous palace” and “ooh, those trees look rather lovely, don’t they?” (Continue Reading…)
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