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| Toys made me want to see the movie |
Bad criticism ruined Frozen for me. Oddly enough, I became
interested in watching the movie not because of commercials or controversies
(of which I thankfully remained largely ignorant until after my first viewing),
but because of toys. For those of you unfamiliar with videogames (or who don't
have kids), Disney Infinity is a videogame where players buy Disney figures /
toys, places them in a portal, and then use them in the Disney Infinity game
(think Skylanders with Disney). Before I even heard of the movie, I saw the
Frozen figures, and they looked really cool. I didn't know what movie they were
from, but the Elsa and Anna figures were cool enough to get me interested in
the movie. When the movie came out, I took my family to see it, and we had a
great time.
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| Elsa and Anna, sisters. |
The story is about two sisters, one of whom has the power to
control ice (Elsa). Because of an accident, her parents ask her to keep her
powers hidden. The two princesses grow up locked in a castle, with Elsa
practicing how to keep her powers under control, until the day for Elsa's
coronation (at age 21) comes. During the coronation ceremony, she loses control
of her powers and flees to the remote cold of the mountains. There, in
solitude, she discovers her true self and creates magnificent structures using
her powers. The rest of the movie features Anna, the younger princess, trying
to help her sister realize that to control her powers she needs to open up and
that it's all about love. During the journey, Anna meets a prince, a commoner
with a reindeer, a talking snowman who wants to live in summer, and a host of
other memorable characters, both good and bad. At the end of the movie, Anna
discovers that love for her family (sister) is far truer and more important
than any kind of romantic love.
When it boils down to it, Frozen is all about love between
siblings. The movie explores romantic love in the form of Anna and the prince
(and later Anna and reindeer man), and judges it wanting when compared to the
love shared between family.
But not everyone saw the movie that way..
