Elsa loosens “her blond hair as if in precoital pounce. Who can understand it?’ ”ĭuring Elsa’s big number “Let It Go,” “I looked over at my partner in the theater and audibly gasped,” writes Elizabeth Wallace at Redbook. “Jeremiah 17:9 tells us ‘The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. “Proverbs 4:23 tells us to ‘guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.’”
While ‘don’t follow your heart’ lunchboxes might not sell well at Walmart, it’s actually a biblical principle.
Garbarino also compares the movie to Dante’s “Inferno” (noting that the bottom of hell is ice, not fire, in the Italian classic) and gave an interview about Christian themes in “Frozen.” Meanwhile, adds Nancy French at, “Frozen uses Anna’s quick engagement to demonstrate exactly what is wrong with the ubiquitous ‘listen to your heart’ advice found in traditional Disney movies. And then she’s resurrected, which kind of proves the strength of her love, and it brings reconciliation, and Elsa is saved because her sister dies.” Anna comes and pursues, and when she pursues her, she has to die. for like, the next 30 years.”įrozen “might be the most Christian movie I have seen this year,” opines Collin Garbarino, assistant history professor at Houston Baptist University, at “Elsa has broken relationships, and she has guilt, and she pushes people away - and her sister is sort of like a Christ figure who pursues her. Seriously, expect a whole gaggle of musical-theater kids to belt this number out in audition after audition. “Disney’s gayest animated movie yet,” says Eric Diaz at Topless Robotmovie, who adds, “Queen Elsa’s big number, the Oscar-nominated ‘Let It Go,’ is pretty much the gay kid’s coming-out anthem for a generation. “It isn’t like she has a girlfriend - or any romance at all - but the idea that she was born different (it’s explicitly specified that she was born this way, not cursed) and that her difference makes her not a ‘good girl’ (a phrase repeated) lends itself to that interpretation.” “Is Elsa gay? I think there’s certainly a valid queer reading to be found in the film,” says Devin Faraci at Badass Digest.
All of this is, again, merely allegory for a young woman’s coming of age - the inexplicable new feelings and our sudden appeal to the opposite sex, both of which could be described as having ‘powers.’ ‘Frozen’ is a (much, much) gentler version of ‘ Carrie.’ ” Coming out Elsa, the sister with the magical power to whip up a snowstorm, has been told to conceal her supernatural ability from everyone, but “the more she suppresses it, the worse it comes out.
“‘Frozen’ uses the idea of magic powers as a metaphor for coming of age, a time when feelings are raw, unpredictable, terrifying and new,” writes Britt Hayes at ScreenCrush. (It’s taken in $360 million in the US already.) But is it just a heartwarming parable of sisterhood with knockout songs, or does it have a deeper meaning? Here are seven theories of what “Frozen” is really all about. Disney’s “Frozen” is the studio’s biggest hit since “Toy Story 3” and is about to hit the list of the top-25 highest-grossing films of all time.