byis a modern
revisitation of the fairy tale "Snow White." Bianca de Nevada and her father, the
widowed Vincente, live on a Tuscan farm. There is a magic mirror in their home, found by
Vincente at the bottom of a pond, and it can be seen to symbolize discovery throughout the
story. It serves as the eye of the narrative; just as eyes are used to see and discover, so is
the magic mirror in Mirror Mirror.
The mirror was made
by dwarves, and its intended use was their discovery of and assimilation into the human world.
They wanted to watch how humans viewed themselves to learn how they, the dwarves, should view
themselves.
Upon the arrival of Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia, a deeply
disturbed brother and sister, Lucrezia takes possession of the mirror, and the depth of her
depravity is discovered through her selfish and vengeful use of the mirror. Out of jealousy,
Lucrezia hires a hunter named Ranuccio to kill Bianca. Instead, he sets her free, and Lucrezia
uses the mirror to discover that Bianca is still alive and living with the dwarves. The mirror
is later placed in the coffin with Bianca, allowing people walking by to discover her
beautyleading to her subsequent awakening through a kiss from Ranuccio, the same hunter who had
failed to kill her.
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