The Brilliance of Frozen

Rating: 10/10 (20 January 2015)

The Brilliance of Frozen
This isn't a review so much as it is a homage. I loved this movie almost as much as my 5 year old, but, clearly, for different reasons. It's a good, fresh story, good songs, gorgeous visuals, and a great message if you look for it.
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The crucial moment in Frozen is when princess Ana searches for true love - for only an act of true love can save her from a frozen heart. She searches wide and far - first for prince Hans, but it turns out he doesn't love her. Then for Christoph - surely this good man can save her! He is all too happy to try.
But as she is waiting for him to run across the ice and save her life with a kiss of true love, she sees her sister in moral danger. In an act of true love, putting her sister before her own interest, her own life even, she runs over and stops the sword of Hans. With this act of true love, she cures her own frozen heart.
We learn that true love is not something to seek out; it's not something coming to you from the outside, like a knight in shining armor. True love is something to give. Something you have inside of you, and something you must give to cure your own frozen heart.
Kind of deep for an animated kids movie.
Disclaimer: My five year old son loves Frozen. it's his favorite film. He repeatedly tried to get us to buy him a Frozen dress. I wonder why Disney doesn't make Frozen branded clothing for boys - seems like a missed opportunity. I am not sure it's the visuals, or the song, or the message that makes him love the movie so much. Probably all of them.