How far Disney has come.

So Frozen is sweeping the world, and it seems like everyone except people who don't know what they're talking about love this thing. What people who don't know what they're talking about you ask? Well this is exactly the point of this post, as you will soon find out.

So the second time a saw Frozen I overheard a conversion of the couple behind me after the movie was over. The guy was saying how he didn't really like the movie because they had some poor advertising for the movie. Which I can agree with, because when I say the teaser trailer and saw Olaf running around I was saying to myself, "What have they done?"

But then the guy said that he also didn't like how it was a "chick" movie that was advertised as a musical. Now I don't really know what was going on with this guy, but if that was what he thinks the movie is about then I have concluded that we saw to very different movies.

First of all despite popular belief this is not a "chick" movie. This is a movie about sisterhood, which is something disney hasn't really tackled before. Now you could argue with me and say "But Lilo and Stitch was about sisterhood" and while I do agree with you Lilo and Stitch was more about families in the end, because you know ohana means family.

That isn't the only thing this movie is about, it's also about...

SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!

... how the sisters save each other, instead of the one of the two main male characters saving the girls. Well you may also say that this isn't the first disney movie to do this, and again you would be right.

But if those are the only two things you find when you watch this movie, then you my friends have sadly missed the two most important points of the movie.

This movie is really about the two main characters arcs which I will now examine in more detail.

So Elsa's story arc is about being who you really are. She has this power which the people find dangerous and she must go and live on her own, and decides to live with the fact that she has this power.

While the story seems to react it's climax a little while before the end of the movie it is an important one. Elsa lives on her own because the people don't except her, and she doesn't want to hurt anyone.

By the end of the story she learns to control her powers, and the people learn to except her for who she is. It's a story about being different from everyone else, but still being yourself, and for that I like it a lot.

But while Elsa's story arc is main plot that drives the movie, we must also look at Anna's arc because it is very important. At the beginning of the movie Anna is separated from her sister because of her parents, talk about emotional abuse. After years of having no love in her life, she thinks that to be happy by finding a man.

And this is important because of what her sister says after she wants to marry Prince Hans after they just met.

Wait what? Remember this is coming from Disney the same company that for years keep trying to push the whole love at first sight crap. I mean almost all of their animated movies feel like their shoving this down our throat. It's kinda like disney thought that women were stupid, and weren't really happy without a man.

Here is an example, the little mermaid. I used to really like this story but I see now that this story is about a woman who can't (more like won't) be happy without the perfect man.

So what happens? Well she gets the guy and lives happily ever after. But guess what that's not what happens in the actual story. In the actual story the prince turns out to be shallow, or as I like to think not ready to fall in love with someone he just met. And then Ariel runs out of time and dies.

More accurately turns to sea foam.

So for a Disney movie to do something like say that you can't marry someone you just met is AWESOME!

So Anna's arc is about learning that you don't need someone else to be happy. And without this arc we couldn't have this awesome moment at the end of the movie.

So yeah next time you hear someone disliking Frozen for "chick" movie, remind them how far Disney has come.

Have fun.