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Boy, Snow, Bird, and Blancanieves
The endings of both Boy, Snow, Bird and Blancanieves share a similar sense of ambiguity and equivocation that ties back to the themes and motifs of the Snow White story.
In the Snow White story, the ending is usually portrayed as a clear victory of good over evil, with Snow White being saved by the prince's kiss and the wicked queen getting her comeuppance. However, both Boy, Snow, Bird and Blancanieves subvert this traditional ending by introducing complexities and ambiguities that leave the reader/viewer with unanswered questions.
In Boy, Snow, Bird, the titular character must come to terms with her own complicity in perpetuating systems of racism and prejudice, and the ending suggests that there may be no clear solution or redemption for her (Oyeyemi, 2014). Similarly, in Blancanieves, the ending is left open to interpretation, with the fate of the main character unclear and the themes of sacrifice and redemption complicated by the darker elements of the story (Latorre, 2014). Blancanieves sheds a tear after being kissed by a dwarfbut is she alive? Is she dead? Is the tear merely symbolic? The film fades to black without answering a single question.
Nonetheless, these ambiguous endings serve to highlight the complex and often contradictory nature of human behavior and morality, as well as the limitations of traditional fairy tale endings that offer neat resolutions and clear moral messages....…Snow White fairy tale at all. It did not need this reference, in my opinion. As for Blancanieves, I found the updated adaptation to be interesting on the surface level, but underneath it wanted to be something much different from what Snow White was about, so I am not particularly fond of it on the whole. I like the look of the filmbut the overall completion is just not really what Snow White is aboutso I dont see why either wanted to use this fairy tale since it was not going to really try to be the fairy tale. It almost feels like a robber putting on someone elses coat to enter into polite societyonly to cause a big…
References
Deveny, T. (2016). Blancanieves: a Film Adaptation of “Snow White” with a Spanish Twist. Marvels & Tales, 30(2), 328-354.
Latorre, J. (2014). Pablo Berger’s Blancanieves and Modern Spain. Retrieved from http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2014/feature-articles/pablo-bergers-blancanieves-and-modern-spain/
Oyeyemi, H. (2014). Boy, Snow, Bird. Picador.
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