In theatres March 21, Snow White is a live-action reimagining of Walt Disney’s 1937 animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Snow White (Rachel Zegler, West Side Story) is a beautiful young princess who shows kindness to everyone. After her mother dies, her father, the king, remarries a cold-hearted woman (Gal Gadot, Wonder Woman). Not long after, her father dies unexpectedly, leaving her in the care of her stepmother, the Evil Queen, who is desperately jealous of Snow White’s beauty.

“Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?” the Evil Queen asks her talking mirror each morning. When the mirror responds with her stepdaughter’s name, the Evil Queen decides that Snow White must die. Snow White flees into the woods, where she meets and befriends the seven dwarfs.

Snow White is happy living with the dwarfs, but she is worried for her people. Her father was a benevolent king, but the Evil Queen is heartless. “This was my father’s kingdom, but the queen changed everything,” Snow White says. “The queen stole everything from all of us. It’s time to restore our kingdom.”

But to do that, Snow White will not only have to contend with her stepmother’s trickery and cruelty but with a poisoned apple that could spell her very end.

Just One Bite

Snow White is not the first story in which an apple gets people into trouble.

Thousands of years ago, God created Adam and Eve, and He intended for them to live in the Garden of Eden and commune with Him every day. Everything was perfect until Adam and Eve broke the only rule God gave them. A serpent convinced Eve to eat an apple from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and then Eve gave it to Adam to eat.

The decision introduced sin into the world, and that changed everything. Adam and Eve had to leave the garden and were not allowed to return. Falling for the serpent’s scheme—one bite of forbidden fruit—cost Adam and Eve the beautiful life God had intended for them. That one sin created a rift between God and man.

 “The queen stole everything from all of us. It’s time to restore our kingdom.” Snow White

As White as Snow

Just as Snow White couldn’t change her situation after she ate the poisoned apple, there was nothing we—as flawed human beings—could do to repair the damage our sin had caused. But despite that, God still loved us and wanted a relationship with us. This meant that He had to bridge the gap with the ultimate act of love.

But it wasn’t a kiss from a prince, as in Snow White. No, fixing our sin problem required a sacrifice from the only perfect person who ever lived. The Prince of Peace, God’s only Son, Jesus, died a violent, painful death on a cross. It was a punishment that we deserved, but He took it on our behalf.

Jesus died and then rose from the dead three days later. His Resurrection defeated death and sin and created a path back to God for each of us. All we have to do is accept Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross. When we do, God gives us a clean slate. It’s like our sin is erased and never happened. Because of Jesus, we can have a relationship with God and spend eternity with Him in heaven.

Our own Prince washes away our sins and leaves us white as snow (see Isaiah 1:18).

Photo: Courtesy of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

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