I thought I found a lot of symbolism, however, I don't wish to say what I think it was until someone else posts their ideas, so as not to make a fool out of myself by having other people think I hyperanalyzed this movie.
So...
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Symbolism in the movie Snow Day
Is Snow Day really an armageddon tale? That is the question serious viewers must ask. The snow day and its resulting close of the school represents the downfall of establishment and sructural society, as the children are loosed upon a world without confinements, an anarchical domain in which the many must overpower the bullies. The revolt agains the plowman is that of the opposition to taht force which atempts to restore order.
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It's a smart idea it just... is WAYYY too smart for this movie.
shareSnowPlowMan = The Devil. TOTALLY.
That plow, that guy, what a MONSTER. Trying to ruin all the goodness and essence of a pure, white snowfall with that ugly, horrid machine. Trying to ruin the magical wonder of a SnowDay. What more could one ask of IL DIABLO???
Think about it...
They call this a kiddie show??????
Are you all crazy??? - what is the relevance of analysing an easy watching kid's movie with crude theory - The plowman is simply one of the antagonists in a formulaic (not a negative comment) script.
As for the anarchist theory, this film is meant for kids & is playing up to a fanatsy of being free from the restraints of childhood.
Just because the film doesn't have deep underlying symbolism doesn't make it any less of a sucessful attempt at a christmas kid's movie. It does what it says on the tin, from the first scene to the last.
Reading it in any other way is just a process of grafting on and skewing theory in an attempt to analyise what isn't there in the first place.
All stories, from the simplest of nursery rhymes to Homer's odyssey have morals, whether constructive or destructive. Therefore ALL narrative structures must have what you are classifying as 'Symbolism'. The use of Symbolic signifiers is a very different process & should not be confused for good STORYTELLING.
The snow is like cocaine,
and all the kids are hip to it, derr..
you need to get a life!
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