After six years, the second part of Frozen is finally released. Disney animation has always had few sequels, thanks to the first Frozen, the second is still a well-made qualified family movie.
I generally don't do too much political reading of a movie, let alone it's a fairy tale movie. So the part of this fairy tale that makes me want to talk a lot is where the film, or Hollywood as a whole, has a problem — politically correct wrong environmentalism and shameful racial stereotypes. These problems have become even more serious in connection with the recent wave of environmental protection in the West by little Swedish girls. All of this at the end of the day, let's talk about movies first.
The plot and technique
Spoilers based on seeing the first part:
The northern forest hides magic, and the king's grandfather has a different opinion.
Building a dam to help the northern borders, in fact, is plotting to destroy the country.
A battle of elf rage, closed forest for thirty years.
The king and his wife sailed far away, and yin and yang never communicated.
Arendelle suffers a sudden tragedy, and the sisters work together to find out why.
Difficulties and dangers are even more insane, and everyone is separated in their own way.
The mystery of his life experience is finally revealed, and his parents are in the battle of becoming attached to each other.
The elder sister was bestowed by Xianlitian, and the younger sister was destined to be the king.
Destroy the dam and protect the city, and the people in the north are reunited.
A sister often patrols the north, Amei guards the land and waits for her return.
The overall plot is straightforward, using a typical three-act play: the cause (the country was killed) - the development (the cause of the departure) - the ending (smooth resolution). Stable to the point of no major twists and turns and true reversals, probably because writing fairy tales for children can't be too brain-burning, so it's not a disadvantage here. If this kind of "grandfather's conspiracy and mysterious life experience" theme is based on the structure of a suspenseful blockbuster, it can easily surpass the first one, but it is bound by the framework of fairy tales and cannot be done.
In addition to contributing a love song in the style of the last century in the United States, the male protagonist still plays soy sauce all the way. The other passers-by, A, B, C, and D are all functional characters, and the key plots fall on the two sisters, so that the audience can always pay attention to the two of them, and the empathy experience will not be interrupted frequently.
There are many breakthroughs in CG technology, so the whole movie is very eye-catching, and it is not a lie to use each frame as a wallpaper. Especially for the performance of "water", there is an action scene in which my sister tames the water element in the sea. The water element transforms into a horse and fights with her sister. Its smooth movements and delicate texture are unmatched by all animation films on the market at present. For those on the right, it is recommended to go to the cinema to experience it.
There is an easter egg after all the black screen subtitles, which is of little significance and can be skipped.
2. Disadvantages
1. Song
In fact, the songs of this work are quite satisfactory, there is nothing ugly, but it lacks the brilliant "Let it go". The most important thing is those four words - aesthetic fatigue. It has been six years, and the whole Disney's music style has hardly changed. Although Aladdin's song and Frozen's song were not written by the same person this year, they can hear the same taste. It can only be said that Disney's composers are old-fashioned and conservative. Homogenization is serious.
The best thing about the whole film is the humming in the title and in the film. I would like to make a special recommendation here. In the original sound album, they are "Introduction" and "Iduna's Scarf (1 minute to 1 minute and 40 seconds part)". song.
2. False Environmentalism
In fact, there is nothing wrong with the plot of this film, and even political correctness is carefully carried out in all aspects (for example, unsurprisingly, the general in the castle of this white country is a black...), so the political correctness of environmental protection is also mixed. came in. The idea that destroying the dam that my grandfather built for the North would save the magic of nature is too bad.
Although the purpose of grandfather's construction of the dam is not simple, but the setting is so simple and rude, it is easy for children to misunderstand: the dam is not a good thing, that is, it destroys the natural ecology, so the four elements of magic will be angry and block the forest. If my expectations are good, there will definitely be children who will ask their parents the question "Is the Three Gorges Dam good?" after reading it, and many parents can't answer this question (it requires too much professional knowledge), and then the children will directly It must be true in the film that the dam is a bad thing. Such false environmentalism, bad, bad.
If I were to write the script, I certainly couldn't just destroy the dam. Dams can store water in dry seasons and prevent floods in rainy seasons. How good is it, why should they be destroyed? Just install and transform a controllable sluice gate. The four elements are not good, and it is all due to this dam. It is clear that people's hearts are the worst! Technology is innocent! Don't mislead children with the wrong concept of environmental protection! Even if it is an animation, please set it seriously?
3. Shameful Stereotypes
Those people in the north who look like they are wearing Indian vests, shouting that they only believe in nature and do not believe in the soldiers of Arendelle, seems familiar, right? It's another "Pocahontas"-style setting where pure and kind natives meet white people with unshakable conscience. Disney is particularly good at repeating a pattern across multiple films.
No problem applying, the problem is that these stereotypes are long overdue. Should Indians love nature? Before Americans set foot in North America, people had burned forests for thousands of years, killed thousands of local wild animals, and killed a lot of species. Americans colonized and slaughtered many Indians, but in order to atone for their sins, they set Indians as nature-loving little white rabbits in cultural works, and forced people all over the world to accept this view through powerful cultural propaganda. , which simply reverses black and white. Moreover, the fact that the United States is still forcing Indians to live in an ancient way makes the above-mentioned "redemption" behavior particularly shameful. The Indians also need to be modernized. Why should they label others as old and outdated?
Set up a few totems, have a primitive belief like shamanism, is closely connected with nature and cannot be separated for a moment? Those who love nature the most are the Chinese and African indigenous people, and even the cannibal indigenous people of the Pacific island countries. Using some labelled stereotypes to define various races and then mapping these labels in the minds of people all over the world is a major sin in Hollywood, but many people are still unaware of it.
We are all human beings, some backward people live in the forest, but they have no ability to modernize. I beg Hollywood to stop labeling others as loving nature. Once they have the opportunity to develop, people immediately burn large areas of forests and reclaim wasteland to grow corn. You didn't give most of the ancestors a chance to survive, but asked their few who survived to continue to live in this primitive forest society. In the name of helping them maintain the tradition of loving nature, I can go to you. This impression is hindering the development of other ethnic groups and trampling on the rights of other ethnic groups to pursue a better life.
Why should others stay in the forest and drink blood according to your settings, why can't they build a big city like the Arendelles? If it is set like this, will the story not go on? Not at all. Just because Hollywood's mainstream ideology subconsciously likes to set such a backward nation that loves nature. Dare you say it's not Hollywood that imposes stereotypes on the general public? Hollywood screenwriters who can write good stories are all brainwashed by this stereotyped ideology.
The film does not directly describe these things, but the stereotype setting makes me feel the oppression of the Hollywood ideology that is so high and constantly labels every race. It is obviously a story of people attacking and not trusting each other, so I have to deal with this kind of Indian bullshit. I would say that not only should the dam be built, but the people of Arendelle should also help modernize the people of the North, rather than keep people living in tents. To convey the real truth, goodness and beauty, it is not to limit others to the so-called stereotype of loving nature, but to help them truly build a better life.
The immortal sisters, who ruled Arendelle and soothed the magical elements of the North, but continued to let the people of the North live a nomadic life? Proper American values. We Chinese are different. We want to build a large number of big cities like Hohhot and Baotou on the Mongolian grasslands, so that nomads can live a modern life. The Hollywood values that are still taking the wind meal and sleeping as a good life and spreading to the world, I hope you will say goodbye to this world as soon as possible.
Someone in the comments told me that the prototype of the northerners in the film is the Nordic Sami, not the Indians. Well, hereby corrected. No matter which people they refer to, I still retain the above point of view: I am disgusted to use stereotypes to describe these backward peoples and forcibly associate them with the love of nature, and I also demand that these peoples continue to express the so-called "" love of nature". In 9102, there are still Sami people living a primitive social life in the forest. The fundamental reason is not because they love nature. They were driven into the forest by other peoples at first.
I'm sure there are people who disagree with me, and to avoid wasting my time, I'll just put the conversation that's happened below. You can agree with him or me. Anyway, everyone knows it, and there is no need to say unnecessary nonsense.
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