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* When Anna is trying to convince the soldiers to help her destroy the dam, she reveals that Elsa, the Queen, is dead. That means Anna is now Queen of Arendelle, so her request isn't just a request, it's now an order from their Queen.
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* There is a bit of symbolism relating to birth or motherhood in the Ahtohallan scene. For example, the entrance to the cave appears a bit yonic[[note]]shaped like the female genitalia[[/note]]. There are a couple ways to interpret this. One is that Elsa is reconnecting with her mother by returning to the source of her magic, i.e. "reentering the womb (the main chamber where she views her memories)." It's also foreshadowing that Elsa will soon be "reborn" when she unfreezes, as well as perhaps suggesting her ascension to womanhood.
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* Elsa has to leave Anna behind to reach Ahtohallan and realise her destiny. However, when she pushes too far into Ahtohallan, she ends up turning to ice. This reinforces the symbolism of Anna and Elsa as the two ends of a bridge, as well as the relationship between the sisters at the end of the movie - they aren't meant to be in the same place, but they are also not meant to be ''too'' far apart.
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* Elsa, with her ice magic and supernatural tolerance of cold, is the only one who can get to Ahtohallan. Anna almost certainly cannot. Perhaps Iduna knows this, either subconsciously or otherwise, because as she sings "All Is Found", she puts Anna to sleep right away and sings the song to Elsa almost exclusively. It foreshadows who will eventually get to see Ahtohallan.
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* As Honeymaren is telling Elsa about the fifth spirit, she mentions that some people say they "heard it call out the day the forest fell." They were hearing Iduna, calling for Gale's help.
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* "Some Things Never Change" has the cast singing about things they think will last forever. But the song is not called "Nothing Ever Changes", and true to the actual title, ''some'' things really do never change - but some things do, and there's an important message in what changes and what doesn't. The things they sing about that actually don't change all deal with love, family, relationships, people, etc., such as, "Like how we get along just fine," or "Like the love that I feel for her." But some things do change; for example:
** "We'll always live in a kingdom of plenty" - and the townsfolk are ejected from the kingdom that night.
** "The flag of Arendelle will always fly" - that night the flag is ripped off its flagpole, and by the end of the movie, the flagpole has been replaced with a statue of Agnarr and Iduna to represent the regained friendship between Arendelle and the Northuldrans. (Yes, it's the same plinth.)
* While Elsa is singing "Show Yourself", she makes a new ice-dress (or else Ahtohallan makes one for her - it's not totally clear) with a split train. The train appears while she sings "Grow yourself into something new" - and it looks a lot like butterfly wings.
** "We'll always live in a kingdom of plenty" - and the townsfolk are ejected from the kingdom that night.
** "The flag of Arendelle will always fly" - that night the flag is ripped off its flagpole, and by the end of the movie, the flagpole has been replaced with a statue of Agnarr and Iduna to represent the regained friendship between Arendelle and the Northuldrans. (Yes, it's the same plinth.)
* While Elsa is singing "Show Yourself", she makes a new ice-dress (or else Ahtohallan makes one for her - it's not totally clear) with a split train. The train appears while she sings "Grow yourself into something new" - and it looks a lot like butterfly wings.
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* The look on Elsa's face makes it clear that she feels terrible about tricking Anna and Olaf into getting pushed down her ice slide. Elsa's already pretty emotional from confronting the truth about their parents' deaths. But while Anna's just sad, Elsa is certainly both sad and guilt-ridden - and not just about feeling like she caused their deaths. She also forced her 15-year-old sister to be the chief mourner at their parents' funeral, with all the royal duties and emotional baggage that come with that chore, while she - the elder sister, and queen to boot - locked herself in her room and hid. And even after that, ''Anna'' came to ''her'' and sang, "I'm right out here for you," and begged Elsa to open the door - which she didn't do. Elsa's feelings of guilt were strong enough to cause her to spend weeks planning a surprise birthday party for Anna - and now, after all those memories come flooding back, Elsa feels like the only path forward is to do the ''one thing'' Anna begged her for years not to do, and the one thing Elsa feels worst about. There are a lot more awful emotions going on for Elsa than she even shows on her despairing face.
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* Anna's fear that Kristoff is going to break up with her when he uses poor word choices is PlayedForLaughs, but it makes sense when you think about what's happened to people she loves during Anna's life. Her parents left on a trip and died suddenly and unexpectedly on it, Elsa stopped talking to her and shut her out for years before nearly in front of Anna (and only survived because Anna threw herself in front of the sword), and her fiance broke things off without warning by ''telling her no one loved her'' before leaving her to die. It makes a lot of sense that she'd have abandonment issues, and it looks like she does. She followed Elsa up a frozen mountain into an enchanted forest, and then a section of that forest that was ''on fire'' just to avoid being separated from her sister. Her abandonment issues actually make her jumping to conclusions quite realistic.
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* Anna's fear that Kristoff is going to break up with her when he uses poor word choices is PlayedForLaughs, but it makes sense when you think about what's happened to people she loves during Anna's life. Her parents left on a trip and died suddenly and unexpectedly on it, Elsa stopped talking to her and shut her out for years before nearly dying in front of Anna (and only survived because Anna threw herself in front of the sword), and her fiance broke things off without warning by ''telling her no one loved her'' before leaving her to die. It makes a lot of sense that she'd have abandonment issues, and it looks like she does. She followed Elsa up a frozen mountain into an enchanted forest, and then a section of that forest that was ''on fire'' just to avoid being separated from her sister. Her abandonment issues actually make her jumping to conclusions quite realistic.
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* One of Elsa's reasons for not wanting to follow the Voice into the unknown is that "everyone I've ever loved is here within these walls." But that's not really true....and Elsa's "secret siren" knows that.
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* There's an aurora as Agnarr and Iduna tell the girls the story of the enchanted forest and sing about Ahtohallan, and there's an aurora the night Elsa strikes Anna in the head with ice magic. And their parents are wearing the same clothes in both instances. It's probably the same night.[[note]]and during a bonus feature, the co-director, Jennifer Lee, says she thinks it is.[[/note]] It's rather sad to think that such a poignant scene is also Elsa's last night as "herself", and Anna's last night with her sister's companionship, for 13 years.
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* Queen Anna has the exact same hairstyle as her mother. If Elsa's gradually loosening hairstyles signify her growing freedom, Anna adopting Iduna's style as queen can signify a greater and more permanent acceptance of the role than Elsa had.
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** The Nokk repeatedly allows Elsa to swim to the surface and breathe, before attacking. He does try to pin her down underwater, but only after she's taken a breath, and it's likely this is once again only to force her to use her ice.
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** The Nokk repeatedly allows Elsa to swim to the surface and breathe, before attacking. He does try to pin her down underwater, but only after she's taken a breath, and it's likely this is once again only to force her to use her ice. And if he were really trying to kill Elsa or stop her from getting to Ahtohallan, he need not have even appeared at all - the Dark Sea was doing a fine job of stopping Elsa on its own.
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* Anna's song "The Next Right Thing" has an odd rhyme scheme that seems a bit scattershot at first. The first stanza has nine lines and only two of them rhyme - it's something like ABCDEFGHE. The next one seems equally random, with only two sets of rhymes in nine lines that goes ABCDECFFG. It throws off the listener, who is used to hearing songs and being able to fall into a rhythm and perhaps even able to fill in a rhyming word. But the song slowly coalesces, and rhymes become closer together, until the last stanza, when the lines get sorted into rhyming pairs: AABCCDDB. We are given the chance to feel, like Anna, that we cannot see what comes next - we cannot easily see "the next right thing" in the song. But as Anna sorts things out in her mind, and the next right thing for her to do becomes clearer and clearer, so too does the song, and by the end, we, like Anna, can start once again to mentally fill in the blanks.
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* While eventually, it's more or less explicitly stated that the spirits were trying to force everyone out of Arendelle rather than harm anyone, this is hinted at during the evacuation scene: the wind blows everyone toward the mountains and nobody has to force their way into it; also, the earth moves in waves in the same direction - but only up the streets. Fire and water could destroy the town or hurt someone, so they're merely shut off.
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** Inside Gale's tornado, Elsa rescues Anna from a flying branch, after which Gale interferes with Elsa's powers, and ejects the rest of the gang out of the vortex while Elsa is distracted so that Elsa will use her ice powers against the vortex. Use of the ice powers leads to some memories and a hint about the past.
** Bruni could burn the whole forest if he wanted, but backs himself into a corner and allows Elsa the chance to prove she's using her powers defensively (by putting out a flame he starts on a tree.)
** The Nokk repeatedly allows Elsa to swim to the surface and breathe, before attacking. He does try pin her down underwater, but only after she's taken a breath, and it's likely this is once again only to force her to use her ice.
** Anna doesn't ''fight'' the earth spirits, but they sure do miss her with their boulders a lot. In particular, while Anna is on the dam, one boulder comes crashing down in front of her, forcing her to turn back - she would otherwise have been cut off from Kristoff and Mattias. And the giants stop throwing boulders as soon as they notice the dam is breaking, which suggests they knew all along they weren't aiming for Anna specifically.
** Bruni could burn the whole forest if he wanted, but backs himself into a corner and allows Elsa the chance to prove she's using her powers defensively (by putting out a flame he starts on a tree.)
** The Nokk repeatedly allows Elsa to swim to the surface and breathe, before attacking. He does try pin her down underwater, but only after she's taken a breath, and it's likely this is once again only to force her to use her ice.
** Anna doesn't ''fight'' the earth spirits, but they sure do miss her with their boulders a lot. In particular, while Anna is on the dam, one boulder comes crashing down in front of her, forcing her to turn back - she would otherwise have been cut off from Kristoff and Mattias. And the giants stop throwing boulders as soon as they notice the dam is breaking, which suggests they knew all along they weren't aiming for Anna specifically.
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** Inside Gale's tornado, Elsa rescues Anna from a flying branch, after which Gale interferes with Elsa's powers, and ejects the rest of the gang out of the vortex while Elsa is distracted distracted, then frees Elsa so that Elsa she will use her ice powers against the vortex. Use of the ice powers leads to some memories and a hint about the past.
** Bruni could burn the whole forest if he wanted, but never actually attacks anyone, backs himself into a corner and allows Elsa the chance to prove she's using her powers defensively (by putting out a flame he starts on a tree.)
** The Nokk repeatedly allows Elsa to swim to the surface and breathe, before attacking. He does try to pin her down underwater, but only after she's taken a breath, and it's likely this is once again only to force her to use her ice.
** Anna doesn't ''fight'' the earth spirits, but they sure do miss her with their boulders a lot. In particular, while Anna is on the dam, one boulder comes crashing down in front of her, forcing her to turn back - she would otherwise have been cut off from Kristoff and Mattias. And the giants stop throwing boulders as soon as they notice the dam is breaking, which suggests they knew all along they weren't aiming for Anna.
** In all cases, the spirits are trying to help, but in a way that forces Elsa and Annaspecifically.
to figure things out on their own, and never in a way that suggests (to the viewers, but also to the characters) that they'll simply act as a deus ex machina to clean up the world's messes.
** Bruni could burn the whole forest if he wanted, but never actually attacks anyone, backs himself into a corner and allows Elsa the chance to prove she's using her powers defensively (by putting out a flame he starts on a tree.)
** The Nokk repeatedly allows Elsa to swim to the surface and breathe, before attacking. He does try to pin her down underwater, but only after she's taken a breath, and it's likely this is once again only to force her to use her ice.
** Anna doesn't ''fight'' the earth spirits, but they sure do miss her with their boulders a lot. In particular, while Anna is on the dam, one boulder comes crashing down in front of her, forcing her to turn back - she would otherwise have been cut off from Kristoff and Mattias. And the giants stop throwing boulders as soon as they notice the dam is breaking, which suggests they knew all along they weren't aiming for Anna.
** In all cases, the spirits are trying to help, but in a way that forces Elsa and Anna
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* All of Elsa and Anna's battles with the four spirits make more sense with the perspective that the spirits are trying to lose. We know they're not really malicious, since they could've destroyed Arendelle but instead forced everyone out in anticipation it might be destroyed. Each time a spirit is "tamed", however, that spirit is only fighting just hard enough to make Elsa earn it.
** Inside Gale's tornado, Elsa rescues Anna from a flying branch, after which Gale interferes with Elsa's powers, and ejects the rest of the gang out of the vortex while Elsa is distracted so that Elsa will use her ice powers against the vortex. Use of the ice powers leads to some memories and a hint about the past.
** Bruni could burn the whole forest if he wanted, but backs himself into a corner and allows Elsa the chance to prove she's using her powers defensively (by putting out a flame he starts on a tree.)
** The Nokk repeatedly allows Elsa to swim to the surface and breathe, before attacking. He does try pin her down underwater, but only after she's taken a breath, and it's likely this is once again only to force her to use her ice.
** Anna doesn't ''fight'' the earth spirits, but they sure do miss her with their boulders a lot. In particular, while Anna is on the dam, one boulder comes crashing down in front of her, forcing her to turn back - she would otherwise have been cut off from Kristoff and Mattias. And the giants stop throwing boulders as soon as they notice the dam is breaking, which suggests they knew all along they weren't aiming for Anna specifically.
** Inside Gale's tornado, Elsa rescues Anna from a flying branch, after which Gale interferes with Elsa's powers, and ejects the rest of the gang out of the vortex while Elsa is distracted so that Elsa will use her ice powers against the vortex. Use of the ice powers leads to some memories and a hint about the past.
** Bruni could burn the whole forest if he wanted, but backs himself into a corner and allows Elsa the chance to prove she's using her powers defensively (by putting out a flame he starts on a tree.)
** The Nokk repeatedly allows Elsa to swim to the surface and breathe, before attacking. He does try pin her down underwater, but only after she's taken a breath, and it's likely this is once again only to force her to use her ice.
** Anna doesn't ''fight'' the earth spirits, but they sure do miss her with their boulders a lot. In particular, while Anna is on the dam, one boulder comes crashing down in front of her, forcing her to turn back - she would otherwise have been cut off from Kristoff and Mattias. And the giants stop throwing boulders as soon as they notice the dam is breaking, which suggests they knew all along they weren't aiming for Anna specifically.
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* It’s no wonder that Anna and Elsa are so shocked and disgusted when learning what their grandfather did, [[NotSoDifferent considering their past experience]] with [[ManipulativeBastard Hans]] and the [[FantasticRacism Duke of Weselton]]. The reveal is likely especially shocking from Anna’s perspective, as the shot where Runeard attacks the Northuldra leader from behind is disturbingly similar to when Hans did the same to Elsa.
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* It’s no wonder that Anna and Elsa are so shocked and disgusted when learning what their grandfather did, [[NotSoDifferent considering their past experience]] experience with [[ManipulativeBastard Hans]] and the [[FantasticRacism Duke of Weselton]]. The reveal is likely especially shocking from Anna’s perspective, as the shot where Runeard attacks the Northuldra leader from behind is disturbingly similar to when Hans did the same to Elsa.
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* The number of Arendelle soldiers seems small compared to Northuldra, especially when you notice how large the Arendelle squadron was in the beginning of the movie and how many were remaining when the Frozen group enter the forest. It's because when the mist descended, the entire tribe was trapped along with their men, women, and children, while the soldiers had just left their families or romantic partners back in Arendelle, and there don't seem to be many women in the army anyway. Also, the forest was already the Northuldran's home so they already had the necessary supplies and knew how to survive in the forest, even with the angry spirits. The soldiers most likely only had their rations and had to learn how to survive in the forest. Imagine just how many soldiers died in that forest during those 34 years.
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* The number of Arendelle soldiers seems small compared to Northuldra, especially when you notice how large the Arendelle squadron troop contingent was in the beginning of the movie and how many were remaining when the Frozen group enter the forest. It's because when the mist descended, the entire tribe was trapped along with their men, women, and children, while the soldiers had just left their families or romantic partners back in Arendelle, and there don't seem to be many women in the army anyway. Also, the forest was already the Northuldran's home so they already had the necessary supplies and knew how to survive in the forest, even with the angry spirits. The soldiers most likely only had their rations and had to learn how to survive in the forest. Imagine just how many soldiers died in that forest during those 34 years.
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** Additionally, the part of the brain responsible for storing memories is the hippocampus, which physically resembles a sea horse and was thus named after the sea horse of Greek mythology. [[GenuisBonus What does the water spirit manifest as, again?]]
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** Additionally, the part of the brain responsible for storing memories is the hippocampus, which physically resembles a sea horse and was thus named after the sea horse of Greek mythology. [[GenuisBonus [[GeniusBonus What does the water spirit manifest as, again?]]
