Talk:Magic Mirror/@comment-16379457-20151112092951

To me, the mirror is the most interesting character in the film. The Queen clearly believed it to be some sort of all seeing force without any form of bias, but if this was truly the case, then Snow White's beauty couldn't have suddenly surpassed the Queen, because she was still dressed as a chambermaid, which, according to the introduction, is what prevented her from being the fairest. And if this wasn't the case, and dressing her like that was a worthless attempt by the Queen to supress her beauty, then the mirror was actually lying to the Queen the entire time by telling her what she wanted to hear, which suggests the entity in the mirror can form its own judgment. Whichever was the case, the mirror's decision to tell the Queen she wasn't the fairest any more is what triggered the events of the film; perhaps it not only has a degree of omniscience, but the capacity to see into, or at least, predict a future which would be directly caused by it saying what it said, and decided to even out the hierarchy of the kingdom. And if all of this is credible, then it raises the question of why it chose that day and not another; well, I guess it was because that was the day a prince was passing by.

Before you suspect I have no life because I'm theorising Disney films, this is just what happens when your niece forces you to watch them with her, repeatedly, and my mind is really just trying to entertain itself.