"Sleep, my darling, safe and sound"
As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.The Movie:
- The flashback scene is one adorable scene after the other. We get to see the two sisters playing together, then their parents taking care of them quite lovingly and Iduna putting Anna to bed after she falls asleep and holding Elsa.
- On top of the adorableness of the scenes themselves, it's generally sweet to see the king and queen fleshed out as being something other than overprotective. They may not have been perfect parents, but they were indeed good parents to their best extent.
- Elsa making ice toys for children, even constructing a perfect ice sextant for one child despite a moment of doubt.
- When Elsa hears the voice while playing Charades, Anna manages to nail her feelings perfectly. Elsa may be terrible at pantomime, but Anna does indeed know her sister well.
- When Elsa retreats to her room after the Voice upsets her during charades, Anna follows her and knocks, and Elsa says "come in". It's a tiny moment that shows a huge positive shift since the last film, where Elsa grew up keeping Anna away while she suffered. Given all the times we saw Anna knock with no success before, it's powerful to see Elsa let her in so easily.
- Anna assumes she accidentally hurt Elsa's feelings about the game of charades and immediately tries to help her not feel embarrassed.
- When Anna asks "When will you see yourself the way I do?", reaffirming how much she loves and idolises her older sister and wants Elsa to believe in herself.
- Anna trying to help Elsa sleep by singing their mother's lullaby to her, including using Iduna's 'stroke a finger down the nose' technique. Elsa even calls her out on this, but still lets her do it.
- "Into The Unknown" gives us a heartwarming look at a side of Elsa that she rarely ever lets herself express. Elsa's magic lives in her and has always been a large part of who she is: it's basically a sixth sense. She spent so long fearing it and repressing it, and now (thanks to Anna) that she's begun to embrace it again and entertain the idea that it might be a force for good, there's so much that she wants to see, to learn, to explore. She's worried about what might happen if she follows the alluring siren song, but she also craves a connection with someone who's like her, who knows what it's like to be unique in the world. She's positively giddy as she harmonizes with the Voice and watches the spirits of the Enchanted Forest dance to life around her, and by the end of the song, she's practically begging the Voice to take her with it into the unknown. This is a large part of the reason why Elsa is fine with staying in the Enchanted Forest at the film's end: her new responsibilities give her an opportunity to learn more about her heritage and continue to get in touch with the magical side of her that she's neglected for so long.Elsa: Every day's a little harder as I feel my power grow, don't you know there's part of me that longs to go... into the unknown! Into the unknown! Into the unknown! Are you out there, do you know me, can you feel me, can you show me?!
- Elsa insists that the Voice that she hears calling out to her is something good despite the chaos the other spirits have caused. She turns out to be right.
- Even though it's played for laughs, Kristoff's reaction to Elsa's request to take his wagon and Sven into the Enchanted Forest can count as this. Elsa wants to take his wagon and best friend alone into a magical forest full of angry and seemly hostile entities but he doesn't call her crazy, reckless, or stupid. His reaction is a mild "I'm not very comfortable with the idea of that" before inviting himself along.
- As the group passes through the fog and Olaf gives his ominous speech about transformation, you can see Elsa and Anna's clasped hands at the edge of the screen. And you can see Anna nervously adjusting her hold to which Elsa reacts by stroking her knuckles gently.
- The mutual freakout from Anna and Elsa over the "leaping into fire" incident. Each sister is worried about the other getting hurt. Although the two sisters have different personalities, it demonstrates that they deeply care about each other."If you don't want me to follow you into fire, don't run into fire!"
- Despite over three decades of hostilities between the Northuldra and Arendelle, the former instantly welcomes Anna and Elsa (Arendelle's royal family) into their tribe upon learning that the royal sisters are half-Northuldran through their late mother.
- An even greater note, they do so with the ''opening song of the movies!'' The song we've heard at the beginning of ever Frozen movie was more than a ritual chant, it was a welcoming song for two daughters of the tribe coming home for the first time.
- Despite the initial hostility between the Northuldra and Arendelle, Matthias is shown standing over and trying to calm down some of the Northuldra children when an Earth Giant passes over the village.
- Kristoff finding a kindred spirit in Ryder, who even gives “voices” to the reindeer.
- When Matthias says that he can see King Agnarr in the faces of Anna and Elsa, Anna gets so happy. She returns the favor for Matthias when she tells him her father would be happy he's still alive.
- The fact that Agnarr and Iduna became friends after Iduna saved Agnarr's life, even without Agnarr knowing Iduna was the one who saved him. They soon became the King and Queen of Arendelle.
- As another reward for Iduna's kindness, the spirits gifted her with two daughters, Elsa and Anna. Together they form the fifth spirit, the bridge between magic and the ordinary; Elsa has ice powers thanks to her mother's family.
- In the prologue, Anna announces that she loves the person who saved Agnarr. Indeed she does.
- The fact that Iduna is willing to risk her life to save a complete stranger, the prince no less, who for all she is knows, is part of the group that is attacking her people.
- The fact that, despite being the son of an evil and genocidal tyrant, Agnarr became a good man and a well-intentioned king.
- When Elsa feels guilty about her parents' deaths and blames herself, Anna is quick to assure her she isn't responsible for their parents' choices and their reason for going on the trip (to learn more about Elsa's powers) does not make their deaths Elsa's fault.
- A small moment. When Olaf tells Anna he thinks he's angry because Elsa pushed them away, Anna tells Olaf he has every right to be "very, very mad" at her. While Anna is upset too, she understands why Elsa pushed them away, whereas Olaf may not understand the way she does. But instead of trying to justify it in that moment, she's telling him it's okay to be angry. Probably a good thing for real life kids to hear, too. Especially if we think of Elsa as essentially being Olaf's mother; it's good for kids to hear that sometimes your parents make mistakes, and even if they thought they were doing what was best for you, your anger and hurt are still valid.
- Show Yourself was already a heartwarming song with Elsa eagerly looking to meet the source of the voice and encouraging it to show itself. And then it's revealed that the voice was from a memory of Iduna calling for Gale as she saved Agnarr.Iduna: Come my darling, homeward bound...
Elsa: I am found!- The vision of Iduna singing to Elsa that Elsa is, in fact, the person she's sought all her life and to fully embrace her power, all the while Elsa's outfit is transformed into a flowing white gown by her power seemingly to Elsa's surprise.
- Many dubs have different lyrics particular on the "I am found!" line, often going strongly with Elsa's emotional reaction to seeing her mother again.
Cantonese: Is that you?French: Nothing ever dies!Tamil: You are my life!- And while this is going on, Iduna is watching her daughter with such an expression of love and affection with Elsa barely maintaining control of her emotions as she sees her mother one last time realizing the unconditional love Iduna held for her and the pride she still has for her.
- Out of context, it comes across as a passionate love song. Come the moment Elsa realizes her purpose it becomes clear that it is indeed a love song: self-love. And much like "Let It Go" before it, "Show Yourself" has a wide range of Applicability.Iduna: You are the one you've been waiting for all of your life.
- Elsa discovering the true identity of the Voice is a moment of incredible emotional catharsis for her. Deep down, ever since that night when she accidentally hurt Anna with her magic as a child, Elsa has always felt like she's a burden on her family, who's brought them nothing but trouble. She's admitted to feeling this way multiple times in not only the main films, but the Lighter and Softer short films as well. A part of her also feels like she's fallen short of her parents' expectations of her. So discovering that her mother is the one who's been calling her to her destiny and her birthright all along - that even after death, Induna never stopped loving her and is so proud of the woman she grew up to be - would mean so much to Elsa, and gave her some much-needed closure over her parents’ deaths.
- What little we can see of young Iduna and Agnarr's relationship is quite sweet, with her emerging from a tree above him to perkily ask how he's doing and Agnarr reacting quite happily.
- Right before the memory above, Elsa sees Agnarr and Iduna as adults. Agnarr tells her he loves her and Iduna tells him that she has to tell him about her heritage. It's clear she's scared (and with good reason) that Agnarr would reject her at best or even result in her death at worst. What does Agnarr do? Touch her face and tell her "I'm listening." Given the result...it's clear he not only accepted the truth but married her and had two daughters with her.
- Anna holding Olaf in her arms the way Iduna held young Elsa in hers.
- Anna holding Olaf during his Disney Death scene is both heartwarming and a Tear Jerker, especially as Olaf says his catchphrase, "I like warm hugs," and tells Anna that he's realized that amid all the things in the world that change, love is permanent.
- While Anna is risking her life to lure the earth giants to the dam, she gets saved by Kristoff returning out of nowhere. Instead of chatting or trying to catch up with or scold her, he simply recognizes that Anna's trying to do something important, asks "what do you need?", and follows her instructions, no questions asked. Despite his anguish over trying to propose to her and her hurt with him leaving, these two truly love and trust each other and are able to put everything aside when it's important.
- Also, when Kristoff rescues her, Anna sounds like she's about to cry Tears of Joy when she cries out his name. Before then, Anna believed that she lost the only people she loved, but Kristoff saving her proved that even though at the time she lost Elsa and Olaf, she still has Kristoff and Sven.
- When Anna apologizes to Kristoff for not finding him after he and Elsa each took off on their own and she had to choose which one to try to follow, the latter simply forgives her.Kristoff: My love is not fragile.
- Anna, despite her serious abandonment issues, shows no resentment for him leaving her and Elsa behind.
- Elsa's last word before being frozen? "Anna." Her first word after being freed? Also "Anna."
- Anna and Elsa's reunion.
- Anna asks "Is that really you?" to Elsa when she first sees her. The poor girl had really lost hope to see her sister alive again and did not want to be disappointed again.
- They hug each other and Anna sheds tears of joy to the point of Inelegant Blubbering. Then Kristoff comes along and hugs Elsa as well since he is happy to see her. After that, Kristoff finally proposes to Anna and she immediately accepts, as Sven now sheds tears of joy.
- Do you wanna build a snowman?
- Anna is shown to have kept all of Olaf's body parts in her bag.
- We also get to see Olaf's rebirth in full detail. While in the first film this was more of a Blink-and-You-Miss-It moment and indeed, Olaf's creation was entirely accidental by Elsa coming out of her subconscious. But this time it's very deliberate and the sisters are doing it together. It's a final triumphant repudiation of the night when Elsa and Anna were building Olaf, where Anna had her tragic accident that set all this into motion. Again they build him, together, with Elsa reforming his body and Anna putting all of his body parts into place and Olaf coming back to life as soon as she puts his nose in. For the first time since that day, the two sisters have built a snowman - their snowman - and it is a glorious moment of heartwarming.
- On a related note is why it’s possible: Gale picked up Olaf’s snow and put it in a cold cave, keeping it from melting and then evaporating.
- A deleted scene shows that Anna & Elsa's parents were planning on telling Anna the truth about Elsa when they returned, the two realizing that Anna brings out the best in Elsa, and would be the most likely one to help Elsa learn to control her abilities.
- In this same scene, Elsa shows Anna the conversation and King Agnarr says Anna's love could hold up the world. After it's over, Elsa tells Anna their parents believed in her and so does she.
- When Elsa says that, Anna, showing the same perception and understanding as she did in the charades scene, realizes that Elsa isn't returning to Arendelle. Elsa confirms, and Anna, despite her abandonment issues, emotionally responds that it's good she found her place and assures her that she'll be okay, having found her own, as they look out over Arendelle, implying her new queenhood.
- Elsa explains that the spirits agreed Arendelle should continue to live, meaning the spirits weren't going to hold an entire kingdom responsible for King Runeard's manipulations.
- Likewise, the spirits don't exact any punishment on Mattias and the other soldiers who were there that day. Unaware of the king's plan, they acted in good faith and defended themselves against what they saw as an unprovoked attack by the Northuldra.
- Why did the spirits seemingly attack Arendelle and force everyone out of the kingdom? It turns out they were trying to get the Arendellians to safety so no one would perish when the fjord flooded. Even at the start, they bore no ill will to the people themselves, just the actions of their king and those who fought with him.
- Kristoff finally gets to propose to Anna at the end of the movie and the latter happily accepts it.Kristoff: Anna...you are the most extraordinary person I've ever known. (Anna realizes what Kristoff is doing and covers her mouth, crying Tears of Joy) I love you with all I am. (He pulls out the ring) Will you marry me?
Anna: (in happy tears) YES!- The way she reacts to the proposal is downright adorable. She covers her mouth as she cries Tears of Joy and then fans herself with her hands before saying yes and rushing to Kristoff's arms. What makes this even more heartwarming is that this is actually Truth in Television.
- The way Kristoff twirls Anna around in his arms before leaning in to kiss her. The pure joy in both their voices as they laugh is just heart-meltingly sweet.
- Also, compare Anna's reaction to the way she accepted Hans's proposal in the first film. She was happy there, but not ecstatic and overwhelmed the way she is here. It says volumes about the difference between the shallow, In Love with Love infatuation she felt for Hans and the true, deep love she shares with Kristoff. She knew Hans for hours, but Kristoff for three years.
- There's also Elsa's touched reaction too. You can definitely tell that she's more than happy to have Kristoff as a sibling-in-law, considering their growing friendship throughout the films that came after the first film.
- Matthias and Halima being reunited after well over 30 years. What's more, the bit where he marvels that they look good in their new photograph (despite how much older they are) is a beautiful indication of his smoldering love for her.
- Matthias quickly asking about her after he meets other Arendellians from outside the mist for the first time in decades, showing how true his feelings are.
- Then, when he asks if Halima is married and Anna says she is not, Matthias realizes that did not make him feel better. It shows how much he cares about Halima; rather than hoping that she was lonely and without love so he could have a chance with her, Matthias was hoping she found happiness and love with another even if that love was not him.
- Kristoff dressing up in formal attire for Anna's coronation. While he makes it clear that this is outside his comfort zone, he still puts in the effort to look presentable for her. Anna clearly appreciates the gesture, and assures him by playfully ruffling his hair that she loves him just as he is.Kristoff: One hour. You get this for one hour.Anna: That's okay. (kisses him on the cheek and ruffles his hair) I prefer you in leather anyway.
- Even though the sisters no longer live together as of the epilogue, they still send messages to each other and Elsa still visits Arendelle occasionally. The ending has Elsa receiving a letter Anna sent asking her to come over to play charades.
- Near the end of the movie, Elsa says that she loves her sister (though not to her face), for the first time onscreen. Even though we’ve always known she loves her, it’s still heartwarming to hear her actually say the words “Love you, too, sis.”
- The post-credits scene is this and funny as it shows Olaf recapping the movie to Marshmallow and the Snowgies, ending his recap with: "I live...and so do you." It might seem like he's just telling it for the sake of it, but Olaf died and was resurrected in the film and probably went all the way to Elsa's ice palace where his siblings were and explained why they also died and came back to life too. He was probably letting them know that they were all okay. Marshmallow's happiness and the Snowgies silently cheering at the end wraps the film up in a cozy moment.
- After the mist over the forest is lifted, Matthias and the Leader of the Northauldra look on in amazement and comment on how it had been over thirty years since they had been imprisoned. Then Matthias offers his arm to the Leader with a smile. She takes it and they step out together, finally free.
