Rapunzel Let Down Your Hair
Rapunzel Let Down Your Hair (film: UK, 1978),a feminist discourse on the images of female enslavement created by cinema and television. Using the Grimms' tale as a jumping‐off point, it starts with a plain acting‐out of the original text, as read by a mother to a child. A woodsman's daughter, Rapunzel, has for years been imprisoned by a witch in a room at the top of a high tower in which there are no stairs. A passing prince, attracted by her singing, gets up by climbing her long hair. When the witch finds out, she strikes the prince blind and exiles him, but her triumph is cut short when Rapunzel bears twins. Exiled herself, Rapunzel takes her babies, seeks the prince, finds him, and cures his blindness with her tears.
The film then goes on to present four different perceptions of what the tale could be about in relation to the 1970s. The first, from the child's...
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