(Don't) Let It Go
While I generally liked the recent Disney movie FROZEN, I did not like the showstopper song, "Let It Go."
For one, it used that part of computer animation that is the simplest. Geometric shapes and structures. It may look impressive, but that's the easiest thing to do with computer aided animation. In another movie, a sequence like this might have entailed an evil queen raising her foreboding castle/wall of thorns and this is clearly reminiscent of that and intended to be, but turned around.
It's turned around into a song of female empowerment, and that's great and all. After all, in a way the big villain of the piece is Elsa's father, who goes about trying to protect his daughters exactly half the wrong way. After the accident, he may mean well and he figures out one important matter of convenience thing but everything that happens thereafter is really the fault of his decisions.
But as is clear from Elsa's revealing dress and bodily motions, contrasting from her noble, queenly reserve at the coronation (a queenly reserve whose powers we were taught about in Disney's recent BRAVE, I'll mention), it is also a sexual/emotional/adult awakening. With tragic results!
Elsa realizes her sexual power to build and create! For herself! But ends up harming her country and nearly killing her sister, showing that these powers are ultimately destructive. At least at this point in the film.
Where's Professor X when you need him, I guess. I liked other stuff, especially the Fixer Upper song as it resonated with my personal feelings about us all being humans from the scratch-and-dent pile at the store.
I guess I'll stick with (Don't) Let It End, by Styx.
For one, it used that part of computer animation that is the simplest. Geometric shapes and structures. It may look impressive, but that's the easiest thing to do with computer aided animation. In another movie, a sequence like this might have entailed an evil queen raising her foreboding castle/wall of thorns and this is clearly reminiscent of that and intended to be, but turned around.
It's turned around into a song of female empowerment, and that's great and all. After all, in a way the big villain of the piece is Elsa's father, who goes about trying to protect his daughters exactly half the wrong way. After the accident, he may mean well and he figures out one important matter of convenience thing but everything that happens thereafter is really the fault of his decisions.
But as is clear from Elsa's revealing dress and bodily motions, contrasting from her noble, queenly reserve at the coronation (a queenly reserve whose powers we were taught about in Disney's recent BRAVE, I'll mention), it is also a sexual/emotional/adult awakening. With tragic results!
Elsa realizes her sexual power to build and create! For herself! But ends up harming her country and nearly killing her sister, showing that these powers are ultimately destructive. At least at this point in the film.
Where's Professor X when you need him, I guess. I liked other stuff, especially the Fixer Upper song as it resonated with my personal feelings about us all being humans from the scratch-and-dent pile at the store.
I guess I'll stick with (Don't) Let It End, by Styx.