I have no where else to post this so forgive me, I'm just a proud father.
I'm a single dad. I have full custody and have had it since she was 3 when her mother decided parties were more fun.
When she was 4 she asked me to do an all nighter. I smiled and figured I could make popcorn and watch Disney until midnight when she would inevitably pass out. Instead, she chose to do a 1st graders workbook. I had the privilege of teaching her the intricacies of simple addition and subtraction. 5+5 and 7-2. Things like that. She ended up doing 20 pages by 1 am
Fast forward to today. She is in 2nd grade and I was called into a meeting with her teacher. He is a good dude. He didn't know what to do because on one hand, she was super wiggly during math time and distracted the other kids. On the other she consistently got 100% on her worksheets. 2nd grade in my area typically teaches long addition and subtraction. 523+432 or 420-179.
When prodded, she told us that she was bored. And that she taught herself "mystery math". We know this as pre algebra. She was so bored in 2nd grade she taught herself questions like 20+a=49, a=?
Her teacher has made worksheets specifically for her and while she completes them in the same amount of time, she gets about an 85% average. She is finally challenged in education.
Sorry is this isnt the place. I'm a proud drunk father. She wants to be an engineer or a geologist
Frozen 1 and 2 were the correct ways to teach women empowerment in my opinion. They are the only post 90s disney movies that I like.
My kids favorite movie is the 40s Dumbo however. I have no idea why but that's her favorite and she is convinced Dumbo is a girl because of the eyelashes.
I 100% disagree on Frozen; "no right, no wrong, no rules for me, I'm free" - not in my house.
And Dumbo is amazing. Also one of the least racist movies ever made. Think about it - why do the other elephants discriminate against Dumbo? His ears. And what's the difference between Asian and African elephants? The ears. All of the female elephants are Asian elephants. Dumbo is an African Elephant. This is backed up by some context clues too. Dumbo's real name is Jumbo Jr. There was indeed a famous circus elephant around the turn of the century named Jumbo - an African elephant.
And Dumbo doesn't realize his full potential until he meets with the crows, who - aside from Timothy - are the only ones to end up taking him seriously or treating him with compassion.
To your first paragraph - that's the middle of the movie. She later finds that leaving her responsibilities behind totally screwed over people that were depending on her, and she had to go back and actually fix what she had broken with that way of thinking.
I only know this because that's how I broke it down to my daughter. Elsa in the first movie is actually not a garbage character. She has flaws, develops, learns things, and comes out better, but not perfect.
That's a fair analysis, but it's not my only issue with the movie.
I'm a huge Disney fan and I just felt like the movie was a hot mess from start to finish. Like, that first song, that the ice farmers sing was such a freaking masterpeice of tone and then the rest of the movie just... doesn't match up. I dislike the hodge-podge quality of the songs, I cannot STAND the damn snowman and Hans was such a heartbreakingly wasted character.
Like, can you imagine if they'd played him straight? If he was, in his own way, just as overlooked and desperate to be loved as Anna? He meets this chick and, wow, she's cute and "quirky" and they've both been raised by fairytales so this is how love is supposed to work, right? Then Snowmageddon starts and the queen is a witch and cute princess is going to solve the problem, so he's gonna step in and be her rock, cause that's what princes do. Then she shows back up and she has a curse that needs true love's kiss and, oh honey step back, this is the moment he was born for....but it doesn't work. Not because he's Teh Evuls but because love isn't what he thought it was. It fails, not because he's a bad person, but because he did, in fact, just meet this girl and doesn't even know what her favorite animal is. Then he and Kristoff have to go collect Elsa, instead of being a stupid jokey side antagonist, the Duke of Weaselton shows that he's actually got some hidden depths of evil, and the rest of the story proceeds apace.
Instead, we got a mustache-twirling evilbro and a "romantic" lead couple that were too busy trying to out-quirky each other they forgot to have chemistry.