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frigid

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frigid
Votey panel for frigid
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Explanation

This comic reimagines the plot of Disney's Frozen from a Marxist, proletarian perspective. In the top panels, two characters who resemble working-class peasants react with despair to the events of the story: the winter in springtime has destroyed the grass their children need to eat, highlighting the real consequences that a magical eternal winter would have on common people struggling to survive.

The bottom panel presents a formal "Proposal" that every Disney movie should be remade from the perspective of the proletariat. The joke is a commentary on how Disney films typically focus on royalty and aristocrats while ignoring the suffering of ordinary people. The title "Frigid" is a play on Frozen, and the comic suggests that the whimsical fairy-tale conflicts of Disney movies would look very different -- and much grimmer -- when viewed through the lens of class struggle and material deprivation.

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