I’ve been pretty behind on the whole Frozen hype. A few years behind, really. Now I know what all of the 6-10 year-old girls were raving about. The music is ridiculously catchy, the plot twist is really intriguing, and the moral of the story has some good old sisterly love (which I know nothing about because I’m an only child… but that’s beside the point).



Anyways, from listening to my friends talk about the movie and from hearing about it in class, I knew Hans was bad, though everything would work out in the end (as it always does). I mean, at the beginning of the movie, he seemed like the stereotypical “old Disney” prince.

He sweeps Ana off her feet at the ball, promises to love her, etc. But, as most other characters (and I hope other kids) pick up on… this is preeeeeetttty sketchy. Even knowing it was gonna happen, his betrayal made me so angry. That power-hungry son of a Sven. But I LOVED Ana’s clapback at the end- “The only one with a cold heart here is you.” Pretty sure I screamed “YES” at my laptop…

I’m still kind of confused about the old Weaselton guy… Why exactly does he get so much screen time? He isn’t really that integral to the plot except for the fact that he sends men to kill Elsa. He just complains a lot… Maybe it’s for comedic relief, but that’s just not my type of humor. I do love, though, that Zootopia has a few Frozen references… including one about Weaselton.

That being said… I know there’s a whole “Disney-Pixar universe theory” out there- that all of the movies are connected in some way. What really struck me while watching Frozen was that all of the characters seem to be familiar with the concept of true love’s kiss. Now, I don’t exactly know if the concept of true love’s kiss is really a thing outside of the Disney bubble, but I do know it’s especially important in Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and, hey! Maleficent. Are the Frozen characters familiar with these stories? They seem to think true love’s kiss is necessary to break the spell… Hm. Just something to think about.

Side note on the whole space-time conflation thing: I really appreciate the scene where Ana is jumping up around famous artworks. I’ve seen some of the paintings in real life!

Disney version:

Real version:

On a completely different note, did anyone else think Elsa’s ice powers were kinda a metaphor for depression at the beginning? I mean, it kinda falls apart with the whole “brb building an ice castle now I can be myself” thing… But in the beginning, she doesn’t tell people what’s going on because she doesn’t want to hurt anyone. Her parents tell her to conceal everything, that it’s not ok to openly show her powers (in keeping with the modern stigma around mental illness). And her powers literally involve ice… I imagine some people with depression might consider it a lack of warmth, or a cold state of being. She spends a lot of time in isolation, not participating in fun events with her sister. If a doctor had to diagnose her with a condition, I almost guarantee it would be depression.

But in the end, she learns to control her powers so she can be with her sister and benefit her kingdom. Ah yes, the happy Disney ending I was promised.