Ketaru
Well-Known Member
Frozen is so overrated that it's getting ridiculous.
I think my biggest problem with Frozen- and the one thing I had trouble shaking after seeing it- was how Elsa's powers receive little to no exposition or explanation. They're just there and people lap it up for surface oppression allegory. But it's a messy comparison.
Elsa truly is a dangerous person when not in control of her powers. It seems to be completely without explanation. It nearly kills her sister...twice. It throws an entire kingdom into an unnatural winter. When she returns, she does pretty neato things with them like create year-round ice skating rinks and insta-ice sculptures. But Arendelle will never want for an army again, because she is a one-woman army. She can freeze enemies at her borders, destroy their agriculture, and leave whole nations in a state of famine and poverty. And nobody thinks to look into this a little further, like is the family lineage under some curse? Or maybe she's an X-Man.
Speaking of overthinking Disney, I find this interpretation of The Little Mermaid agreeable.
http://salexanderphd.tumblr.com/post/58639402338/poor-unfortunate-souls-a-quick-meta-on-the-little
EDIT: For all this talk about Disney movies becoming more progressive, one wonders why nobody is talking about how great Lilo & Stitch was. That one was very progressive without being so ham-handed about it. Lilo was certainly no princess (and had an admirably dark sense of humor). It dealt with very real problems like unemployment. And- forget simply breaking tradition- Stitch is an outright non-sequitur among other Disney characters.
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