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[pureanonofficial]

say goodbye to the pain of the past—we don't have to feel it anymore

LAURA DAWKES & OLIVER ORMSON | FROZEN: THE MUSICAL

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ENDLESS LIST OF MY FAVORITE DIALOGUE MOMENTS IN MEDIA, 7/∞

FROZEN II (2019) — DIR. JENNIFER LEE AND CHRIS BUCK

[glittering-snowfall]

I feel like Anna would be more perceptive of the ways her parents hurt both of the sisters. Elsa would blame herself for her parents' failings. Moreover, Elsa might want to make excuses for her parents because she was able to see them up close. She was able to see their pain as she tried to control her powers, so this would humanize Agnarr and Iduna in Elsa's eyes. Elsa might feel obligated to say, "They loved me, cared about me. I saw the hurt in their eyes... they wanted to help me," without processing that her parents still hurt her. Elsa might be so protective of them that she'd take the blame on herself. "It was my fault, if I could have just controlled..."

But Anna would be under no such illusions because Anna wasn't offered this insight into her parent's humanity. She wouldn't be brought to guilt by memories of her parents' faces. She only knows what they did - to her, and to Elsa - and so it would be easier for her to say, "No, Elsa, they hurt us. They hurt both of us. We were children in their care and they hurt both of us."

It would be cathartic for Anna because she spent so many years wondering what she had done wrong when she did nothing wrong. It would be an acknowledgment, "No, this wasn't on me. This was on them. I did nothing. I was a child." And it would be cathartic for Elsa to no longer be in denial, and to realize like Anna, that she too had been a child...

Queen Anna of Arendelle is a shrewd queen.

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KRISTEN BELL as ANNA OF ARENDELLE Frozen (2013)

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I never knew what I was capable of.

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Frozen Forces of Nature podcast

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FROZEN

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Frozen II (2019)