Neither understands the other’s experiences in life. And I’m not going to give too much away, as part of the joy of Frozen is following the plot where it goes – but unlike Brave, where Mom has a point but really is actually wrong on pretty much every major point come the movie’s end, both sisters have compelling arguments. (Or else my adoration of Gone with the Wind and Dumbo are deep trouble.)įrozen features two sisters, each radically different, with two beautifully-devised motivations. Yet many love it, and that’s fine having mundane or even harmful messages is not at odds with you loving a movie. I found it a C-lister Pixar hit, in the same realm as A Bug’s Life – perfectly watchable, but not something I go back to the way I do Finding Nemo or Monsters Incorporated.

That doesn’t make Brave a terrible movie, mind you.

Is Mom pretty much wrong And so to my mind, Brave is largely a lesson of “Follow your dreams, as long as they’re active violent boy dreams.” Maybe with a little dash of “Pretty isn’t strong.” Is it implied that maybe some women would be happy being a princess and doing girly things? Not really, no. Is Mom as compelling a character when she’s not a bear? Not really. And her mom wants to keep Merida down, and what a mean mom she is for refusing to let Merida have her dreams!Īnd in the end, Merida sees that Mom has her reasons for wanting Merida to be a princess… but that sense that women who don’t act boyish are somehow less interesting permeates the picture. Merida wants to do boy things! This is why she’s interesting, becoming a boy! Otherwise, she’d be like all of those other useless icky girl princesses.

And Brave, well… it means well, but in the end the messages it sends aren’t really terribly interesting.īecause the message of Brave is kinda feminist, but first-layer thinking of feminism. And a movie can have a strong woman and still have some pretty terrible role models buried in there. Now, the thing about feminism in kids movies (and in general!) is that it’s all about the encoded messages. Watching Brave’s fumbling attempt to put a girl front-and-center becomes weird when you see the real feminism in Frozen. (NOTE: Based on time elapsed since the posting of this entry, the BS-o-meter calculates this is 12.06% likely to be something that Ferrett now regrets.)

Frozen and brave porn