My Theory on Frozen

Frozen is already universally acclaimed as an innovative 21st century family film filled with fun and adventure; but does one of its more controversial  themes go unnoticed?

What if Elsa, the glistening snow-sorceress of this film, is a homosexual? 

Wait, what?

We've already soared past the woman's suffrage movement and the civil rights movement, and with the popularity of LGBT rights in our pop-culture, it is clear that the next big movement is for homosexuals. Disney cleverly creates an extended metaphor by using Elsa and her sorceress powers to show us the endearing struggles of homosexuals.

Elsa's sorceress powers are a metaphor for her homosexuality.

So Elsa is playing with her younger sister when she accidentally hurts her with her ice powers during the opening scene of the film, that's when she first realizes her homosexuality. Her parents come in and see what is going on between the two of them. Seeing the abomination of her sorcery/homosexuality, they lock her away for fear of it and separate her from her sister. They tell her to hide her powers, a euphemism for hiding her feelings. Societal norms would outcast witches just like they did with homosexuals. By locking Elsa into her room and having the point of view pan across her doors; doors become a continued theme throughout the film: The doors enclose Elsa's feelings similar to how we coin the term for homosexuals 'being in the closet'.

When the gates finally open and Anna meets the Prince Hans of the Southern Isles, Elsa fervently rejects her blessing for marriage due to her own jealousy. Her homosexual love for her sister is again shown at the end of the film when the prophecy of only true love being able to thaw Anna is fulfilled by Anna's protection of Elsa.

However, the most grandeur-filled showing of this metaphor occurs with the Oscar-nominated song 'Let It Go'. In the song Elsa makes her way to the top of an icy mountain, away from society. That is where she finally comes to terms with her powers/homosexuality. The lyrical parallel for this metaphor can be heard in the lines:

"Be the good girl you always have to be

Conceal, don’t feel, don’t let them know"

Elsa is reflecting on her parents attempts to try to hide her homosexuality/feelings.

"No right, no wrong, no rules for me
I’m free"

She is coming to terms with her true self and how now that there are no rules she is free to be who she really is.

"Let it go, let it go

That perfect girl is gone"

She has finally let go of the social boundaries which have constrained her inner-desires. She has shattered the traditional notions of being a perfect Disney princess by being homosexual and we see that through her saying 'That perfect girl is gone'. She realizes she is not perfect in the eyes of her kingdom/society because she is a homosexual, and she has come to accept that.

Of course Disney is not ready to make one of it's main characters openly homosexual; which is a bit ironic considering the progressive message this film may subtly be trying to send.