In the great year of 2010, an eight year old Lexi Elliott was exposed to a piece of media that would forever change her life. This was of course the movie, Tangled. I genuinely believe that Tangled is the best movie that Disney has ever created. Let me tell you why.

Rapunzel has such a great personality and no matter how old you get, you can always see yourself in her. She has dreams that may seem small to others, are the entire world to her. Dreams that are only possible to achieve if she leaves her tower. That’s another great thing that I love about this move, the symbolism of the tower. Young or old, we all have some sort of Tower that we just can’t seem to get out of. I was Rapunzel when I was eight and my tower was my house. I was Rapunzel at the age of sixteen and my tower was the town I had lived in my whole life. I am still Rapunzel at the age of 19 and now my tower is my own head. I will be Rapunzel when I am 25 and who knows what my tower will be then? My point is, Rapunzel teaches us that while the Tower may be comfortable, if we want to live the life that we dream of, we have to be willing to take the risk of leaving.

Don’t even get me started on Flynn Rider aka Eugene Fitzherbert. When I tell y’all that this man is the blueprint for what I base my type around. I adore this man. His character development is top tier. He goes from caring about nothing more than stealing and getting rich, to willingly giving over the crown and dying in order to free Rapunzel. I would also like to point out that there is a part in the movie where the man who has never honestly bought a thing in his life buys a small gift for Rapunzel because he can tell how much she likes it. There’s also the fact that he goes from saying this his dream is to be by himself on an island surrounded by money to telling Rapunzel that she was his new dream. That is the sweetest thing that I’ve ever heard and I will never get over it.

As I’m writing this I have the overwhelming urge to watched Tangled for some reason. So that’s what I’m going to go do, if you’re reading this and bored, you should also go watch Tangled and come to the conclusion that it is a cinematic masterpiece.

All my love,

-Lexi Elliott