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Apologies; I thought I spelled out very clearly why they were abusive parents. And considering it all occurs in the first ten minutes of the movie, I wasn\'t sure how deeply I needed a recap.
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Apologies; I thought I spelled out very clearly why they were abusive parents. And considering it all occurs in the first ten minutes of the movie, I wasn\\\'t sure how extensively I needed to recap.
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Prevailing opinion here seems to be that the King and Queen can\'t be abusive -- they love their daughters and the writer/direction has stated that they were just \
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Prevailing opinion here seems to be that the King and Queen can\\\'t be abusive -- they love their daughters and the writer/direction has stated that they were just \\\"misinformed.\\\" Which is true. They did love their children; they were misinformed, irrational, and probably dealing with a fair amount of fear. Up to a certain point, it\\\'s all very understandable and human, if not necessarily helping an already difficult situation.
And then they make the decision to isolate Elsa. They remove her from the room she shares with Anna, limit her contact with others, and place at least a moderate degree of confinement on her. They bar her from Anna, the closest relationship she apparently has, and never do anything to discourage her very visible shame and terror. In fact, they encourage it.
They proceed do this for \\\'\\\'years.\\\'\\\' A decade at the very least. All while the relationship between their daughters is completely crumbling and Elsa is becoming increasingly petrified of any and all human contact. If the two of them notice this, it never seems to strike them as a concern.
And \\\'\\\'that\\\'\\\' is abusive. Completely objective abuse. Remove the good intentions and I don\\\'t believe anyone would be debating this.
The fact that people \\\'\\\'are\\\'\\\' debating this and quickly jumping in to excuse the King and Queen on the grounds that they were nice enough people/leaders/never chained Elsa to the wall disturbs me a little. The entire movie is centered around undoing the damage her parents inflicted on her...let\\\'s call it what it was.
And then they make the decision to isolate Elsa. They remove her from the room she shares with Anna, limit her contact with others, and place at least a moderate degree of confinement on her. They bar her from Anna, the closest relationship she apparently has, and never do anything to discourage her very visible shame and terror. In fact, they encourage it.
They proceed do this for \\\'\\\'years.\\\'\\\' A decade at the very least. All while the relationship between their daughters is completely crumbling and Elsa is becoming increasingly petrified of any and all human contact. If the two of them notice this, it never seems to strike them as a concern.
And \\\'\\\'that\\\'\\\' is abusive. Completely objective abuse. Remove the good intentions and I don\\\'t believe anyone would be debating this.
The fact that people \\\'\\\'are\\\'\\\' debating this and quickly jumping in to excuse the King and Queen on the grounds that they were nice enough people/leaders/never chained Elsa to the wall disturbs me a little. The entire movie is centered around undoing the damage her parents inflicted on her...let\\\'s call it what it was.
