After seeing Snow White and the Huntsman four years ago, I again realised that the days of temperate fantasy — of weepy princesses and noble princes — had been tossed out the back of the truck. Censorship had almost been abandoned except for the very young. Everywhere there sprouted movies in which teen girls fell in love with vampires; Marvel and DC Comics introduced moral ambiguity into their narratives; and, in general, rowdy scripts and amazing cinematic legerdemain reigned.Many influences were at work, feminism among them. Then there was the addictive immersion in computer games — a new way to evade reality. Still, the great shift in what is allowable in cinema has far to go. Kids now know all about sex, violence sifts through the planet, heroes are abjectly innocent of the consequences of their acts.The Huntsman: Winter’s War is not exactly a sequel to Snow White, though a number of big players in that film return to live out what happened before the killing of Queen Ravenna (...
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