Kung Fu and Love

Kung Fu and Love
A great gift for Valentine's day or Chinese New Year

Sunday, February 16, 2014

Disney's Frozen and the power of true love

If you haven't seen Frozen yet, go watch it before you read this.
Disney is really good at story telling and they are getting better and better at it. You would think that watching this movie once is all you need to get everything out of it, except maybe some hidden scenes of people here and there that are fun, but not really that important. But a lot of these movies, including Frozen are really re-watchable.
One thing I got on the last view of this movie on You tube, was that Anna has magical powers too. Not special powers, because as Hans says, "she is completely ordinary" Well maybe she has a special ability to love more than normal people do. She is really loving and lovable isn't she? But the point is that ordinary people all have that power, or the ability to produce that power, True Love.
When Elsa says, "what power do you have that can stop this winter" or "me" or something like that. Of course in the end Anna does have the power to control Elsa's power, to protect Elsa, and to break Hans's sword and even blow him back in an act of true love that both freezes Anna and cures her of her Frozen heart a few minutes later. She dies in Sacrifice to Save Elsa, and then comes back to life. Much like the Jesus story. It's great I love it.
Even more than this is that the whole time Elsa has been trying to protect Anna through isolation, because that's what her parents thought would be best. Out of love, they isolated her and themselves, but that made it worse because it was a lack of human contact and lack of the expression of that love that made the evil part of Elsa's power come out instead of the beautiful fun of it.

We've watched this movie several times on You tube in a boot leg version. And honestly we might have to buy it anyway, because I would love to listen to the kids watching it in the car on road trips, or watch it on the big screen. The money the thing costs would be worth it as a payment for the story that these many many people worked on and created.

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