Snow White

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is the first animated feature film produced by Walt Disney and the first included in the canon of Walt Disney Classics. It premiered on December 21, 1937, and is an adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale of the same name.

In 1989, the film was considered “cultural, historical, and aesthetically significant” by the Library of Congress of the United States and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

In the film we see the protagonist, Snow White, a teenage girl of barely 13 years old, innocent and a bit naive, but she never loses faith in her longing that true love will one day come looking for her. She remains cheerful and kind, no matter how badly her evil stepmother treats her.

She is kind and gentle by nature, and does what she feels is right, even if that may bring her trouble. For example, when she helps a suspicious, ugly old woman by taking her to the house after the dwarfs told her not to let anyone in.

About this scene where the witch appears in disguise offering her the apple, I have to tell you that it personally impacted me; that lady made me jump the first and the second and the third time I saw her, and my younger sister was terrified of her.

Snow White did not know it was the stepmother, nor did she know that this stranger’s intentions were bad, very bad; in fact, they were so bad that she wanted to kill her.

If I were her, I would have asked myself the following:

Why is a stranger insisting so much on something that is apparently good?

I do not know about you, but to me that scene reminds me of the scene in Eden (Gen. 3:1–6).

“And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate.”

We all know how Snow White ended, poisoned, just as Eve ended. The prince saved Snow White and our Prince of Peace, Jesus, saved us.

Even today, after so many years since Eden, the enemy of our souls continues appearing in our lives with the same tactic “...the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life” (1 John 2:16 NBLA) which do not come from God, but from the world; and the prince of this world is the devil (John 16:11).

Snow White saw the good side of everything and everyone, but to the point of exaggeration. And we MUST NOT be like that. We must be balanced and careful with that. That you have a good heart does not mean that others have it, and we are clearly seeing it through this example.

We are like sheep in the midst of wolves; therefore, we must be as shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves (Matthew 10:16 LBLA).

Shrewdness can be a device or a trick. We must be skillful not to deceive, but to avoid a deception. When Jesus told us that we should be as innocent as doves, he was not speaking of innocence in the sense of being a silly or foolish person, but of someone full of goodness, gentleness, benevolence.

Let us not be naive like Snow White; here the only one who is not going to poison you is called Jesus Christ. In him we truly will have our HAPPILY EVER AFTER.