Is Disney touting homeopathic quackery in Frozen 2?
Some substances used to make homeopathic remedies are disturbing, including Excrementum caninum (dog’s excrement) and, notoriously, Murus Berlinensis (pieces of the Berlin Wall)
24 December 2019 - 16:39
Like millions of other parents, I dutifully took my kids to see Disney’s Frozen 2 last month, thinking nothing of it. But a few weeks later, not only am I still humming Into the Unknown, I am also pondering whether the company that created Donald Duck has embraced quack medicine.
Let me explain. The recurring theme in Frozen 2 is that water has memory. This idea appears time and again throughout the movie, from the very first song — the haunting lullaby All Is Found (“where the Northwind meets the sea, there’s a river full of memory”) — to the predictably sentimental ending...
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