Thread:Dragonboy6491/@comment-25389622-20140907210809/@comment-25389622-20140908211209

Don't worry, I agree with you. I spend some time (quite a bit actually :-p) trying to justify my love for it. And then I get on to thinking, hey, why does anyone love any type of fiction? I'm in too deep with this argument with myself to pull out...

I have some ideas in my head, one being that we as humans have it built in to our nature to demonstrate our capacity to create, well, anything. Whether it is a story, say, in the form of a book, film, etc., this freedom of creativity allows us to create worlds of our own. That's why so many people love video games - and films, books, etc; you get to be someone else, in another person's shoes, at any point in time, and anywhere in space, and not even in this space necessarily. Not only that, but we as receivers of such creativity love to engross ourselves in a story - this being also part of our nature - and when you combine certain elements you can create combinations of emotions in a person and have them react and feel to what you are showing them. It's not just a story though; it surpasses that as soon as one thinks about it in their real life. Say, your spirits are lifted by a good happy tale, and then this gives you mental strength to perform tasks in your real life.

I don't know if you've heard of 'Disney Confessions', but that stuff speaks volumes about how a story - like Frozen - can impact someone's life. How one can relate to Elsa's situation in at first seemingly strange ways, but it helps them. I've read some of these, and if people can handle depression or anxiety through this kind of film, or any other form of storytelling, then that's justification for it. Even if your life isn't that bad, it still helps. It helps me having the songs going through my head at work - I hate my job, it's not forever, but I still don't like it - and just thinking about something else to occupy you helps. I can still connect and talk with people, it's just I find in the moments of solitude one has, it truly is nice to separate yourself from the world as we know it, with all it grievances and horrors, and engross yourself in something alternate. I'm not just talking about Frozen, although that's what I have used lately to quantify what I am trying to say. This can apply for everything fictional

…although I still struggle to see where Shakespeare fits in :-)

Sorry to get all philosophical, but I just needed to put that down, kind of so I spend less time thinking about it. But that’s one of the ways in which I try to understand why something – like Frozen – has such an impact.