The song and the moment are symbolic only, but the character doesn’t really live with her choice for very long. He has to live with his decision to let it go longer. Like Elsa, he’s pretty quickly drawn back into his old life, but at least his “let it go” moment seemed to change him and his story. In 1982’s Superman II, another character who lives in an ice palace also decides to “let it go.” In that movie, Christopher Reeve’s Superman gives up being Superman and tries to live in the Fortress of Solitude with Lois Lane.
Lyrics to let it go frozen song movie#
Obviously, the movie doesn’t leave Elsa in the ice castle forever, but on some level, maybe it should have? In Frozen’s defense, you can’t end of a kids movie with one of the characters just ditching everyone and living in an ice castle forever, but because the song “ Let It Go” draws so much attention to this theme, and then contradicts its message, the song feels flippant in retrospect.Īlso, because Elsa doesn’t live in isolation very long, the theme of her breaking with society doesn’t work because she never really grapples with the consequences of that choice. Based on Elsa’s actions only, the real “it” feels more like the latter “it,” and again, seems to suggest the best way for an iconoclast to embrace their non-basic selves is to pack up and move. But if “it” equals EVERYTHING ABOUT SOCIETY, that’s trickier. If “it” equals WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK OF YOU, then “Let It Go” is great. The confusion exists with which “it” the song is talking about.
The song doesn’t really service the story at all, because Elsa never really sings a song that says, “hey, it turns out I can’t let everything go, some things you have to still care about.” Her triumphant Walden-esque isolation lasts like three seconds before she’s pulled back into the plot. Elsa not only can’t “Let It Go,” because it turns out she does care about fitting in. What kind of message is this exactly? Run from your problems and flip a middle finger at those problems from behind closed doors?įurther complicating this contradiction is the fact that the story of the film, proves the sentiment and result of “Let It Go,” to be false. But, after you let “it” go emotionally, you’re supposed to physically lock yourself in a Fortress of Solitude. Sorry, but how is a song about embracing your true nature and flying your freak flag also a pro-isolation song? On the one hand, you’re supposed to “let it go,” the “it” being, what other people think, societal norms, and, in fact, interactions with people who can harm you, etc. She describes this isolation like this: “ The snow glows white on the mountain tonight. (“I don’t care what they’re going to say.”) But her way of dealing with this is to “slam the door” and live in an isolated ice castle. The specific sentiment of the lyrics “let it go” are ostensibly about Elsa embracing her true nature, and not caring what other people are going to say.
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