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For a while now, my friends have been urging me to talk about "Frozen 2", and I will make it up for you today.
Originally, I watched it with the mood of watching the MV mix, but I found that although the second song is good, it is not like the previous one. Almost every song is catchy.
Only "All is found", "Into the unknown" and "Show yourself" are outstanding, and Xiao Shen personally prefers the latter.
As for "Let it go", it may be destined to be an eternal classic.
What surprised me was actually the characterization, it did a little bit of depth.
Especially after watching "Maleficent 2" Princess Aurora, you will be more aware of "Frozen 2".
The film does feature two of Disney's greatest female characters to date.
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Let's talk about Elsa.
Elsa is a very depressing character.
Her restraint on magic, her affection for her sister, her restraint on missing her parents, her dodging from strangers... Almost everyone could not see the overflow of Elsa's emotions.
Whether it was her dearest sister Anna, her pet Xuebao, or the subjects of the kingdom, they seldom noticed what Elsa was thinking and feeling.
In "Maleficent", Maleficent is also a person who suppresses emotions, but we can still see Maleficent's maternal love for Aurora.
She maintains a dignified and cold attitude on the surface, but she cares for all those who treat her well.
Compared with Maleficent, Elsa's feelings are more restrained. It seems that Disney's queen who can play magic is this arrogant character.
Elsa and Maleficent, the two witches, one has hurt the person they love, the other has been hurt by the person they love. Different experiences and similar mentality make them...
The more you care about someone, the less willing you are to approach them.
The biggest difference between Elsa and Maleficent is that her sense of self-identity is extremely weak, not as free and easy as Maleficent.
Ai Luo does not believe in Maleficent, Malene will be sad, but she will not lose herself and be lost.
But if Anna questions Elsa, then Elsa is basically autistic.
Aisha has a weak sense of self-identity, lost the love of her parents early, and even took the initiative to reject the love of her sister, and gradually developed an avoidant personality.
In "Frozen 2", although Elsa is in complete control of her magic, her withdrawn personality has not improved much.
When it comes to family games, Elsa is also cramped. It can be seen that she is not good at dealing with people, especially her family.
Even though she has full control over ice magic, she is still afraid of hurting her loved ones.
However, it is human nature to be close to the person you like. Babies are born to want to be close to their mothers and need their mother's care.
Xiaoshen particularly likes the scene in the film where Elsa and Anna's mother gently scratches the bridge of Anna's nose with her fingers to coax her to sleep, which is how mothers coax their children to sleep in reality.
It would be a wonderful thing for such a good mother to grow up with her child, but it is a pity that her untimely death has become a knot in Elsa's heart.
For people like Elsa, it is difficult for them to establish an intimate relationship. The more they face the person they love, the more nervous and uneasy they will be.
The reason why Elsa became such a character has to be traced back to childhood.
During her childhood, Elsa was undoubtedly happy, but this happiness lasted too short, because her sister was injured and her parents sailed for her, but unfortunately the ship sank and died.
This greatly affects Elsa's psychological security, she thinks she is not good enough to be loved and liked.
The specific performance is that Elsa has always been slightly resistant to Anna's enthusiastic concern, so that Anna's growth period also lacked family love.
God knows how much pain Elsa endured as a child. She suppressed her desire for love and concern for others, and tried her best to isolate and suppress her feelings.
Only later did I realize that Elsa's personality was the avoidant personality that we all have more or less :
I'm not good enough, no one likes the real me.
Because of this, when we listen to "Let it go", we feel so happy.
Elsa is finally willing to face her true self and try to appreciate her true self instead of hiding it.
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However, Elsa in "Frozen" only learned to get along with herself, she did not fully learn how to get along with others.
In the film, Elsa resists others because she is afraid that her magic will hurt others, just like us in life, the reason why social fear is the fear of not being liked.
But the more afraid you are, the easier it is to backfire.
Because the ability to make others like you is uncontrollable, like Elsa's magic.
In the first part, Elsa's ice and snow magic is a passive skill. If she doesn't pay attention, she can automatically clear the troops.
Anna came to the Ice Palace and invited her sister Aisha home with all her heart and lungs. Aisha strongly refused, and accidentally flattened A, causing Anna to bleed from the cold.
In the second part, Elsa still made this mistake.
In order to find the truth, she plans to go to the River of Memories. Anna is worried and must stay by her sister's side. Elsa uses magic to build a small ice boat and insists on sending her sister away.
She thought that she could protect her sister in this way, but we all know that Anna was sent to the stone monster nest by her sister.
If it wasn't for Anna's own wit, she would have escaped death.
The ending is that one of the two sisters died in the wild area, and the other hung on the enemy crystal, and they directly GG.
This is actually quite terrifying.
The source of Elsa's character tragedy is not magic, but the loss of her parents in childhood, and she no longer dares to love.
This is Elsa's knot, her shame, her hurt.
Only by unraveling Elsa's knot in her heart can Elsa really come out.
And this truth, only Anna can teach her.
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Now, let's talk about Anna.
Although she also lost her parents very early, the driving force behind her becoming such an optimistic and open-minded person lies in the wonderful childhood her parents gave her.
So, the family of origin is really important! Parents, please be careful!
Elsa is lucky, she has a sister who loves her dearly.
Anna is the "Shi Xiangyun" in Disney, which is the personality of "a hero is born with great generosity and magnanimity".
Even if she knew her sister's cold-hearted personality, she didn't mind the alienation her sister gave, because she liked someone and only followed her heart.
It can be seen that this is a girl with a strong self-identity. The last Disney princess with such a strong self-identity was Princess Aurora in "Maleficent".
Aurora also has the same open-minded personality. Without such enthusiasm, Maleficent's hard heart would not have been melted by Aurora.
Many people were so angry with a plot of "Maleficent 2" that Arlo prevented Maleficent from killing the queen, and as a result Maleficent was killed by the queen.
Everyone yelled at Princess Ai Luo for being "stupid and white sweet", a mother-in-law and a madman.
The queen's conspiracy is to provoke hatred between humans and elves. If Maleficent really kills the queen, then the hatred between humans and elves will be completely settled.
It was wise for Arlo to stop Maleficent, but the writers made it too much.
In contrast, "Frozen 2" is much more mature in characterizing Anna.
Anna is a very competent monarch, she is responsible and responsible, has a big picture and a spirit of sacrifice.
In the name of establishing diplomatic relations, Anna's grandfather did cunning things, built dams, isolated the resources of the northerners, and caused the lives of the northerners to suffer.
In order to make up for her fault, Anna took risks alone, risked being crushed to death by a stone monster, and led the stone monster to break the dam. This courage and responsibility is admirable.
You can find that the character Anna not only has the courage to admit mistakes, but also the ability to solve problems.
It's a quality that Aurora doesn't have, and that's what makes Anna great.
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I believe that at the end of the film, we all know that after wind, fire, water, and soil, the fifth element is love.
And that love is Elsa herself.
This setting itself is not new, but it is extremely suitable for people with an avoidant personality like Elsa.
In fact, Xiao Shen I is more or less an avoidant personality, and I was also nicknamed a "fake smile boy" by friends around me.
Unlike the pleasing personality, the avoidant personality's main concern is not how to please others , but to avoid being hated by others .
We generally use our "false self" to communicate with people, rather than revealing our true character and thoughts to interact with people.
But after wearing the mask for a long time, we don't even know what kind of person we were originally...
Some of us have become scheming Prince Hans, maybe you have learned a lot of attractive social skills, but you can hardly get the heart;
Some of us have become Queen Elsa, who is "ruthless and moving", maintaining a gentle and alienated attitude, just for fear of being seen through.
It is for this reason that when we watch Elsa transform, we will sigh at Elsa's beautiful appearance and melodious singing voice.
That's what the film is trying to convey to us, please Show yourself, because—
The true self is the most beautiful.
A friend once told me that Elsa made little girls all over the world fall in love with pink and blue.
Rather than falling in love with blue, perhaps we can say that Elsa has given everyone a little courage to express themselves.
Even if that bit of courage is short and only lasts for one song, I think the meaning of this character's existence has already been achieved.
In the end, the little god wants to say that you can cater to other people's preferences, but please don't cater to other people's characters.
Let them see that the mountains are the mountains, the seas are the seas, and they are me when they see me.
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