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Lyrically Sound: Love is an open door
With the most recent hype concerning the existence of Frozen 2 and my overall love for the movie myself, I thought it necessary on the fine day of April 1rst to do a lyrical analysis of one of my favorite Frozen songs. I would also like to take this time in explaining to you why I think Hans was a tragic character who we might have shrugged away too fast.
So let us start with the basics. “Love is an Open Door” is a song about love, and how it resembles a door. Yep. An inanimate object. I mean, obviously, the door is a metaphor for something, but I’m not really sure what that could be. When I walk through a door all I…. OH I GET IT. *Cough cough* Anyway. What was I saying? Oh yeah, the song.
Well, let’s forget the song for a second and back up a little in time. After all, this is a song based in a movie, so to understand the song you must first understand the movie.
Okay, Okay. So in the movie, the character Anna is a girl who is desperate to connect with someone from the outside world. She longs to find someone she could share all the love she has held up inside her, the very same love that her sister was unwilling to accept. Because of this, it makes her prone to mistakes. Like a girl who is having a night out on the town, who just got dumped, and has had way too many shots of tequila. So when Hans comes along she falls face first into his big strong arms… and those gorgeous, lush, mutton– *cough cough* So she falls in love and here we are.
The opening to the song starts off with Anna saying,
“Okay, Can I just say something crazy.”
Anna
and
“I love crazy.”
Hans
Okay,
Now to Hans’ credit, I think he did, in fact, fall in love with Anna just like she did him. It’s plastered all over the song. How else would he have known she was going to sing about sandwiches!? That kind of knowledge only comes from true love! And he literally says,
“I’ve been searching my whole life to find my own place, —- but with you, —– I’ve found my place and it’s nothing like I’ve ever known before.”
WHO SAYS THAT AND ISN’T IN LOVE!? A sociopath!? I THINK NOT. Hans loved Anna. He had to or he would not have opened up to her, just like a door… no pun intended. *cough cough* and he would have continued to love her if it were not for his stupid pride and desire to prove himself. That’s right, this dude got a whole backstory right under our noses! Let me explain.
So Hans is a prince to a big family, and because he was born… well practically last, if not last he had no chance to gain the throne unless it was through marriage. I’m sure he was bullied and told that he would never amount to anything. He had a lot of pressure on his shoulders to make something of himself. So when he found out about Arendale and the princess’ he took his shot. But who wouldn’t take their shot, prove the people who always told him he would be nothing that they were wrong? I’m sure he didn’t actually expect to fall in love, to meet someone
“who thinks so much like me, jinx, jinx again.”
It left Hans with a difficult choice, betray the one thing that made him feel love for the first time or be the nothing that everyone said he would be. His choice was justified really, and it was tragic that he would even have to make it, slamming the door on not only love but his chance to prove himself. Tragic.
So maybe love should be a closed door that someone needs to knock first to get into. Like, come on Anna, who lets a stranger into their house!?
Where was I going with this? Happy April first everyone! I’ll upload real content soon! Hopefully…