Blog Post 8: Frozen Barriers Broken:

           

            Over the weekend, I was conned into watching a movie by my fiancé that I thought I would never watch in a million years. Being the Disney freak that she is she wanted to watch frozen with me. When I sat down to watch it I couldn’t help but think that feeling of “Awwww here we go again.” The feeling that I have gotten from watching any Disney princess movie. The feeling that of course the girl is going to find the prince and live happily ever after. But with this movie, I was in for a rude awakening.

            The movie is about a young princess Elsa, who takes the seat of her parents’ throne following a tragic event with their parents. When this happens, she is forced to come out of hiding and ends up showing a secret that she never wanted to have known about her.

            This movie was revolutionizing in the ideas that were conveyed. First of all whenever I watch a movie like this it always has the same premise. That being the girl finds prince charming and the whole happily ever after takes place. Well the first part dose in fact take place but… The latter never occurs. It comes to be found out that the prince is all smoke and mirrors. He is deceiving, a liar, and many other things. In my opinion this teaches girls a valuable lesson. That lesson is that this idea of running off with the “perfect one” may not be all it is cracked up to be. There may be a case where instead of the frog turning into a prince, it is the other way around. This is a good thing because it dose not say that there is no perfect one, but what it does say is that girls should wait and see if the guy is all that they are cracked up to be. 

            The second thing is that true love is not just what the prince expresses to the girl in order to save her. True love can come from a number of different places. This one in particular is the love of a sibling. At the end of the movie as a result of the cold feelings that she has the princess acts out in rage and strikes her sister. When this happens, her sister’s heart is turned cold and it ends up resulting her sister being frozen solid. The only way out of this is that there must be an act of true love that can break the curse. Someone very unexpected breaks the curse. That person being the very one that placed the curse on her. This was interesting because unlike other Disney movies, this one dose not have a prince saving the day, but instead the sister. This in my opinion shows that it is not always the love of the prince that saves the day but the love someone that can be someone you are with everyday and would do anything for you.

            Lastly, the one thing that this movie did that no other Disney movie has ever done before. That is the fact that there was a hint of a same-sex relationship. Following the movie’s release, there was criticism that this was an issue that was a little too complex for kids to understand. But the way I see it, it would be better for kids to learn about it in an environment that is controlled rather than see it in the way that the biased news channels can show it to be. It goes on to show that times are changing and that from early on kids should be tolerant to the ideas of any relationship.

            I think that this movie has broken many barriers and because of this there is evidence based in this movie that supports the idea that there is a change in the style of Disney movies that are going to be produced. So I have to say that overall this movie really opened my eyes to these situations and after looking into it farther has led me to understand these ideas better.