Let It Go is an example of Misaimed Fandom at its finest. It's actually NOT ment to convey a positive message at all. It's a Villain Song, plain and simple. Just because it happens to be for an Anti-Villain doesn't make it any less of one.
What? Did we watch the same movie? Let it Go has basically two messages: "you don't have to be afraid of showing your feelings" and "trying to hide who you are only because others say so is bad". Ok, Elsa made a mistake running away just like that, but I don't see how Let it Go is a villain song. In fact, the movie writers decided that Elsa wouldn't be a villain after hearing Let it Go and realising it wasn't her fault.
It does sort-of have those two messages, but it also shows Elsa going too far. "trying to hide who you are only because others say so is bad", yes, but dealing with it by running away, isolating yourself from everyone ("Turn my back and slam the door") and going crazy with your powers completley ignoring the consequences is not.
Also, a major point of the film is that Elsa DID have someone who would have accepted her for who she was (her sister Anna), but she purposfully distanced herself from her, and this is shown to be very unhealthy, something Elsa needs to learn by the end of the film. She's very sympathetic, but not entirely guiltless, at least in my opinion.
I know she wasn't guiltless, I simply don't think that Let it Go is a villain song, and I think you're giving Elsa too much flak. This is just my opinion, but when I heard the song, I didn't got it as a villain song that sort-of throws in good messages: I think the song's suposed to show both points of view.
Like, I'd say it's suposed to convey the two ideas: Elsa is running away instead of talking with her sister, which is bad, but she is also a victim of circumstances who never asked for her ice powers, was manipulated by her father into hiding her feelings from everyone (including her sister), and then loses her parents and the only person she has in the world is someone who she doesn't really knows, because she saw herself forced to isolate from her. Maybe it's just that I really like Elsa's caracters and I'm letting my bias get in the way. I admit that's very probable. But i just found surprising that, acording to you, "It's actually NOT ment to convey a positive message at all".
Sorry if this is a bit long, it's 0:12 where I live and here I am, arguing about a movie on the internet. I'm sure I'm nitpicking a bit too much, but oh well.
People once asked some anime author: -Sir, what do you think about different opinions on messages and subtext in your work? -Well, they areactually all true.
Your opinion depends on your point of view, but the point is - Frozen is a very nice cartoon movie. It's funny, beautiful, partially original and, overall, just cool. Sorry for the pun.
Also, you can't tell people "stop liking this thing". But the pun is appreciated.
I agree with this review. Let it Go as a spng by itself is a pretty strong message but in the context of the movie, it's basically having Elsa sing about "fuck Arendelle and everyone in it!"
Ashley, Elsa's going away was a reasonably heroic thing to do - she couldn't control her powers which hurt people, so she left so as not to hurt her kingdom, and decided to live alone in the mountains -
She just didn't know that winter didn't end with her departure, it's a plot point later in the movie when her sister tells her about it, and Elsa's properly surprised. She didn't leave Arendelle to freeze, it was supposed to thaw out by itself.
"Every conflict could have been prevented, had people properly talked to each other."
Aren't there a ton of stories that do this?
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Xeno, whaddya mean Arendelle is supposed to thaw out by itself? Yeah, it totally looks easy for the snow to melt away caused by an emotionally unstable being of ice powers. What annoys me is that Elsa clearly didn't figure out that Arendelle was frozen - it was shown in the beginning of the movie that there were no signs of snow ANYWHERE not even the mountains. It was also shown when Anna and Kristoff were climbing the mountain, they could see a perfect view of Arendelle. So anybody that's smart can see that Arendelle was CLEARLY frozen, something that Elsa somehow failed to see or wonder about.
And Elsa running away was no heroic in anyway, She was essentially running away from her problems, and leaving a kingdom to the mercy of other foreign countries, no ruler, or absoulutely no forms of leadership to help guide the people. When she sang about it in Let it Go, it felt so WRONG because I felt like she was singing in the song how she can let everything go and forget her responsibilites, rather than having second thoughts of thinking about her people and her sister!
"Aren't there a ton of stories that do this?" Unfortunately yes, and it infuriates me every time it happens since humans tend to talk.
And Ashley, I absolutely agree about Elsa and running from responsibility. The songs in Frozen are nice enough, but no more nice than most other Disney songs that, well you may not like them or the context, you still hum or sing them cause they do kinda stick in your head.
But people singing Let It Go like it's a heroic thing to do is just terrible. Might as well sing Robbie's Come Undone line of "So F*** You Aaaal!!"
Did anyone read what i wrote?
Um, can\'t we blame her parents for what she did? They\'re the ones who encouraged her to hide her powers. Also, she didn\'t know about the winter not stopping after she left. She figured everything went back to normal, but likely with Anna as queen, after she left, since that\'s how it always was before.
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People Need To Let This Movie Go
Everyone says Let It Go is an amazing song and it's wonderful, fantastical and great and what not... I enjoy the song enough, I just don't think it's as great as people make it out to be. Not to mention that it feels like it's giving the terrible message "You messed up majorly and alienated everyone from yourself? Ehhh, who cares, just run away and pretend nothing ever happened!" instead of actually telling someone to take responsibility for what they did.
But overall this movie is being too overhyped by everyone. I don't see why people think it's such an amazing new thing. Granted, it's the first time Disney abandoned the romantic love between man and woman to show that the love (and trust) family members have between each other is just as powerful and important... but just because it took Disney a good 30 years to finally catch up to that message doesn't mean the rest of the world hasn't figured this out themselves.
The story and characters in this movie are terrible. Every conflict could have been prevented, had people properly talked to each other. Your daughter can use magic but that could end up harming someone? Teach her to control it, teach your other daughter to not constantly demand her to "do the magic" and teach your first daughter to damn well say No and not by locking her into a place and telling her what an abomination she is.
Speaking of characters, you might think that Anna would be an interesting character, being a Stepford Smiler who is actually crippingly lonesome and wants to immediately marry a man she meets because then she won't be alone... but the movie seems to not go through with it properly. They try, then forget it for the "Family Love" message.
As for one plot twist in the movie, it feels so painfully shoved in for no good reason. It feels like they did it to prolong the movie for fifteen minutes because they had no idea what else to do or they did it because they realized they have accidently started up a Love Triangle and had to nip it in its bud.
The music in the movie is nice enough, not just Let It Go, but then, it's Disney and I cannot mention one Disney movie that I have seen where I can say I didn't like the music. The music is fine, Let It Go is just being overhyped along with the movie (including the message it seems to convey in my eyes).