Frozen

The movie I chose to watch was Frozen. In the beginning it starts off with Ana and Elsa, who are princesses, talking about building a snowman. As the movie shows the girls growing up, we find out that the parents die in a tragic shipwreck. Elsa has shut Ana out and Ana tries to talk to her and figure out why. During coronation day, Elsa and Ana talk about the party, the smell of chocolate, and how beautiful they thought each other looked. Then Ana meets a guy and asks her sister for the marriage blessing. That is one of the few times the test is untrue. The ending shows us that the act of true love was between Ana and Elsa, a feminist act, instead of a true love’s kiss. Therefore I do believe this movie passes the Bechdel test.

            Even though the whole movie is the effect of Ana introducing a boy to Elsa, the movie doesn’t become any less feminist. Ana does take a journey with Christoff, who is a boy, but she is trying to find her sister. The fact that Elsa was given powers leads me to believe that females were favored and shown as powerful in this movie. A woman controlled the weather, a woman had the power not a man. But at the same time I thought about the fact that maybe the producers gave Elsa the power to show society women can’t handle having power and just cause destruction. If that was the case though, why would the ending be her fixing it? I think this movie shows non-believers that women with power can be destructive, but they are smart enough to figure out a solution.

            Just like most movies, it ends with a kiss between a man and woman, but it was the feminine act of true love that thawed a frozen heart.