Frozen

I’m sure I don’t stand alone when I say that Frozen is one of my favorite Disney movies out there. Highly acclaimed by many, Frozen stole the spotlight and earned a place is many Disney fan’s hearts. This movie not only has a ridiculous score with great songs, but also has an awesome plot that shows a true inner struggle.

To start out with the obvious, this movie’s best lesson is to be yourself. With media and its portrayal of the perfect body image in today’s society, many young girls try to be something they are not. Girls eat unreasonably so they can be as skinny as the models they see on television. Older children sometimes wear revealing clothes to try to be more like the sexy characters they see in books or movies. Another really big problem is peer pressure. Many kids and young adults get trapped into doing things they shouldn’t because of external pressure from friends. What Frozen tells us is that you can be yourself and people will accept you for that. Elsa’s most famous number illustrates this pretty well when she says, “Let it go, let it go, And I'll rise like the break of dawn.” Elsa realizes that she can’t hide her true self anymore and lets it out displaying her immense power. People of all genders, races, or size should let out their true self and not hold back because of what others might think.

Another valuable lesson that is echoed through this movie is that it’s always easier if you have someone in your corner backing you up and helping you out. Elsa shut out everyone and everything in her life and she had all that bottled up on the inside and she released it in a fury of anger. Throughout the movie, Elsa learns that it’s easier to tackle her problems when she has people to talk to and rely on. Kristoff, Sven, and Olaf rely on Elsa to overcome their problems, which prompts Elsa to realize she needs their help too.

There is an abundance of love at first sight relationships in Disney. I strongly dislike this because you can’t really know if you love someone just by seeing them. As the cliché goes, don’t judge a book by its cover. Since you can’t actually know someone for their real self at first sight, I think this instills a false sense of love within children. Frozen helps combat this misunderstanding that love is based of appearances. Anna believes she is madly in love with Hans after first meeting him at Elsa’s coronation. The viewer doesn’t find out until sometime later that Hans is evil and plotting against Elsa and Anna. Since Anna was naïve and saw an attractive man who appeared to be nice, she fell in love. This shows the young viewer that you can’t fall for someone that quickly and you must first get to know them.