Tangled

[Flynn has just been mortally wounded, and Rapunzel wants to use her hair to save him.  Her evil "mother" has been abusing this power of her hair for years, and we will continue to abuse it.  The power of Rapunzel's hair makes her young.]

I love Disney movies, especially when they can show us good things, not just happy things.  More often then not we see the happy-go-lucky part of Disney, but this one shows the nature of what it is to be a man, what is written on a man's heart.  This is true for women as well, but there is something natural about how it comes to a man.  

Flynn cuts the hair from Rapunzel before she has a chance to heal him.  Why does he do this?  It is to protect Rapunzel.  Her "mother" had been using Rapunzel all along and the whole reason why Flynn got hurt in the first place was trying to prevent the mother from ever using Rapunzel again.  Yes, it could have saved Flynn, but the nature of what it is to be a man is to lay down his life for the good of others, especially the one he loves.  He is a good man who puts the needs and life of his love, Rapunzel, before his own.  "There is no greater love, than to lay down one's life, for one's friend." -John 15:13.  It is the very nature of love to be sacrificial, to will the good of the other as other.

This is what we have so often forgotten in our modern age.  We think of love as an emotion, as something that makes us feel good.  That is not love, it is a fickle emotion, that comes and goes.  Love is to think of the other, to put their needs before your own.  The point of living and loving "is not thinking less of myself; it is thinking of yourself less." - C.S. Lewis