Frozen II: A Lesson in Parenting and Common Sense
I watched the second Frozen movie shortly after it came out, and ever since then I have become convinced that Elsa and Anna's parents are the worst non-malicious parents and monarchs portrayed in probably all of film history. I know, Cinderella, Snow White, etc., have straight-up abusive family relationships, and there are plenty of other characters, Disney or otherwise, that do also. The thing is, those characters knew where they stood in the family dynamic. They knew that they were unwanted and unloved. I'm not saying that relationships like that are acceptable. They aren't. However, I think it's somehow worse when a parent or someone in a position of authority does something that is in the longterm damaging and then claims it is out of love. We already knew from the first Frozen movie that King Agnarr and Queen Iduna clearly had no idea how do deal with a troubled child/children. I don't think anyone really knows how...