Frozen to if you've seen all the reviews for frozen - generally it's well-received praised for its heart and story and all that good stuff
But there's this deep undertone of the movie that as far as I can tell hasn't been dissected
Frozen - takes us deep into the unknown but much do we take for granted just how unknown the deep truly goes
Wait what let's start with this. Have you ever heard of a thing called The Last Airbender?
Specifically the show not the movie
Excuse me, thinking of the movie just yeah. Okay. Anyways frozen to essentially develops on that narrative
Reimagining the idea of avatar and the four elements into this enchanted world
The four elements are not found as benders. However, but are still reflected by beings or spirits made up of their respective element
Elsa the last ice bender
Essentially experiences her own personal transformation into the avatar by the end and in a nod to both Airbender and The Legend of Korra
She is not only the bridge between the elements but the human and spirit world as well. I
Swear, the only thing missing in this movie is pro-bending
What wait, maybe she does a little bit of that now, of course
I'm not trying to say that Airbender was the originator of the four elements truly that concept is found rooted in ancient
Philosophy and religion of the Greeks and Egyptians and if we really want to get into what they believed they didn't invent the elements either
That's God's handiwork, but I digress
Frozen does a beautiful job of bringing those ideas that avatar captured so well and putting them into a frame of reference
That is unique unto itself and carries a certain magic that just feels familiar as we progress throughout the story
As mentioned we see the elements themselves come to life in their own unique ways
Most notably and true to form would be our friend the fire salamander
For those unfamiliar with ancient Greek alchemy. The salamander was actually the symbol of the fire elementals someone at Disney has done their homework
along with this adorable critter
We also see a water horse
Which they fully borrowed from the king of cups in patch taro
The wind from the game flower by that game company and my favorite the rock fighters from neverending story
returning for their role as the earth spirits
Now moving on from the elements concept
Another curious decision to build into the fundamentals of this movie was to incorporate the work of dr. Emoto very heavily
I mean leaning into it hard make body slamming the audience with a continuous stream of lines
Mostly from Lefou wait. Sorry Olaf about how water has memory and it remembers everything
And honestly, I'm not at all upset about that
actually
If there's one way to get human consciousness to wake up to a new idea
it's to get that idea in front of billions of people and then
Repeatedly tell them over and over and that is precisely what Disney has done here now
I know there's probably some who are out there going to be very upset about this because some people believe that dr
Emoto was a bit cracker doodle
So it's worth noting that the science here is more than a little legit, and I'm not just talking about Emoto
Recent discoveries by a German group of scientists demonstrated that water was able to carry a microscopic pattern based on the surrounding environment
Carrying the pattern and integrating with future patterns it received over time
I won't get into the specifics here, but I'll put a link in the comments if you want to learn more
Ultimately, the study showed us that water really does have memory and that water can pick up and store information from all of the places
It's travelled through connecting people and places through time by the memories that it carries. Ah
how beautiful and we can take this even deeper if we consider this from the lens of Greek alchemy and the
Relationship of the element water to our emotional bodies, then we can see that it is our emotions through which memories are stored
Think about it if you are emotionally invested in some big life event
It means a lot to you and you have no problem recalling it
But try and remember what you had for lunch like 7 weeks ago unless it was a particularly memorable lunch
I mean
Maybe you just happened to sit down for a meal with I don't know the Avengers
with the exception of those
instances things like this generally get faded out of our minds in favor of the things that mean a lot more to us and
This brings us to where frozen tube gets deep and I mean deep
One of the main themes of frozen to if not the mainest main theme
is that of a social commentary on the relationship between the indigenous cultures of the world and
well
White folk and they released the movie just in time for Thanksgiving - of course, they've done it in a way
that's very tasteful and accessible considering the route subject matter here is the mass genocide and suppression of an entire civilization that gave us
Pretty much the world we have today and that can be a rather uncomfortable part of life that people don't like talking about
But here's where the unknown lights up with spiritual sparkles
Traditionally in many ye old symbolic languages such as the Tarot for example
The elements are often represented by special items in the instance of the Tarot
We have the cups wands swords & Pentacles or disks
These are the water fire air and earth elements
Which of course are metaphors for our emotions our spiritual willpower our minds and our physical bodies?
Towards the finale of frozen - during the big reveal where we see how the war between the two cultures broke out in the first
Place we see it was well just like it was in real life
Malicious intent from the white people leader who was afraid of the natives because they used magic and decided to kill them
But at the moment of this big reveal we see the way it happens the general with a sword
Standing over the native leader holding a cup. I don't think we can get a screenshot of this scene in particular just yet
so here's a patch man version instead for now as
We just explored the sores reflect the element of air which is the mind and thoughts and the cups are the emotions and the feelings
When you really dive into the Tarot it also explains how when the mind is not tempered with. Peace
It can become an instrument of suffering confusion and cruelty you see for the indigenous leader
They could have given him anything
He could have been smoking a peace pipe playing a drum or whatever
But the producers gave him a cup why
The scene and story is a description of cutting off from one's feelings and looking at the world through a limited
Perspective and this action is rooted in fear
This subtle yet
Powerful imagery shows us what happens when we create from a place devoid of feeling without empathy or an emotional connection to ourselves or others
We lose our compassion and then our humanity
This is doubly made powerful by knowing that the Ace of Cups. The root of emotion is labeled as compassion
Gee-whiz tarot. So cool
and
Finally much of the plot is based around this large dam that was built by the general as a really a false gift
Weakening the magical forest and the people who dwell there. The dam itself is a reflection of the barrier that society has installed
Which limits us from truly being free to express ourselves keeping the magic within us trapped inside
I say that society has installed
Specifically because it was not the current generation who built the dam but several generations prior in the movie
indicating that all of us are born today into a world that
Conditions us to think a certain way about life and it's up to all of us to go back into history
Discover the truth about who we are where we came from
At last has and change our future with new information in
Addition to that the movie also explains how to solve this problem in another way through the character Kristoff. Sure
He spent the majority of the movie trying to get hitched which at least it's the man swooning as opposed to the woman
Which let's face
It is overdone, but there was one part where he was singing with Sven the reindeer and the song ends with Sven singing
Kristoff let down your guard
and
This is how we break our own inner emotional dams
Stop being so uptight and defensive and open your heart to love
My very last point am I the only one who noticed that Elsa fully teleported at the end
I mean look
She's way up here in the North Isles the dam breaks down here and goes
Rushing to arendelle with like crazy momentum and within a split second
She's there just in time to stop the flood and then the water just completely
Vanishes like we don't get to see that it probably would have bounced off the rocks and came back, but no, that's fine
It's just gone anyways at the end of the day. I'm certain that even with everything
We've covered we could still go a lot deeper here
But hey, it's a start if there's something else you noticed in this movie share it in the comments below also
This is the beginning of a new series
Let us know what else you'd like to see the spirituality of and we'll talk about it soon in another episode
Thank you very much. See you next time