Disney’s movie Frozen
is available for purchase today and I wonder if there will be enough copies of this sensation that has swept the nation.
Everywhere you go you hear kids belting out the songs...Let It Go, Do You Wanna Build a Snowman, For The First Time in Forever...
Frozen products were in such demand, when
I was at Disney in Orlando in January it was impossible to find a single Frozen item for purchase, and they had been sold out for weeks. Obviously
Disney did not expect the movie to be the sensation it has become. Why has this quirky Disney movie hit such a
cord? I think it has to do with the underlying theme…shame.
Have you seen the movie?
We have two sisters, Elsa and Anna, who are as close as two sisters can be. Elsa is ‘special’, and accidentally
harms Anna. Her parents are warned not to let others see her ‘gifts’.
So Elsa is separated from her sister and society is kept away from both. Elsa spends years hidden in her room, ashamed of who she is, and what she can do. Fighting daily to be someone different than she was meant to be. Anna longs for the days of old, where she and her sister frolic and play. She is confused and doesn't understand, as the truth has been hidden from her.
Eventually Elsa is forced out of exile to face her destiny. Her fear is all consuming and she can't hold back. Suddenly everyone knows the truth of
what/who she is. Instead of standing strong and being proud, she runs away. She spends a few euphoric moments feeling free, but she has really done is traded one prison cell for the other and become even more isolated then before.
In the end, Elsa unwavering love for her little sister Anna will bring her out of that cell and break the binding chains of shame, allowing her to be exactly who she was meant to be.
We have all felt shame at some point in our lives. Someone of us have gotten past that shame, and it no longer holds us prisoner. Others have not been so lucky. So is it really any wonder why this movie has been so popular?
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