A wonderful mythology of demons and demigods. A heroine who embodies the bold spirit of her people. Another sweet, funny, exciting triumph from Disney.
There must be more than this provincial life!” So, goes the melancholy cry of the Disney princess. But it becomes so much more, something so much bigger in Moana, yet another triumph for the Mouse’s animation arm. Sweet, funny, exciting, and moving,tweet this is a transcendent experience that brings to the screen a pan-Polynesian cultural tradition that has been entirely absent from mainstream entertainment. Here is a wonderful mythology of demons and demigods, and a creation story unlike any we’ve seen before: this is ancient fantasy that feels fresh because so few of us have been exposed to it before (unlike European-flavored fantasies and Judeo-Christian creation myths, which get so much play). But Moana’s story, set thousands of years ago, also has much that is pointed to say to us today.
The first thing electrifying about Moana is that its heroine isn’t just a girl longing to see, literally, new horizons. Yes, Moana — pronounced, in case you’re wondering, “Mo-ana,” not “Moan-ah” — is driven to find out what lies the beyond the reefs off her beautiful South Pacific island paradise, reefs beyond which her people are forbidden to venture. What makes her special is how she will achieve this: she is chosen by the ocean itself, as a reward for a kind act toward a sea creature, to take on a quest involving a long and dangerous journey that will, hopefully, save her island and her people. (Turns out paradise is threatened, as it usually is.) From Ulysses and Jesus to Luke Skywalker and Neo and that doofus in The Lego Movie, our literature is replete with “Chosen Ones” who are male. The hero with a thousand faces finally, this time, has a female face.tweet A brown female face. A thousand hoorays would not be enough.
There is, in the grand Disney tradition, much soul-searching and lots of “be yourself” encouragement, but we’ve never seen anything like how that takes shape here via Moana (the voice of newcomer Auli’i Cravalho). She wonders why she dreams of doing something that her father, Chief Tui (the voice of Temuera Morrison: Green Lantern, Couples Retreat), insists cannot be attempted. When she cries “What is wrong with me?” I gasped in astonishment: that cuts deeper into the disconnect between what we’re supposed to want and what we actually do want than any Disney cartoon has done before. And then, in a sequence that is even more astonishing, Moana experiences a soaring vision of the past of her people as daring explorers who crossed vast oceans, who were brave and intrepid, not confined by comfort and timidity. There’s nothing wrong with Moana, and she isn’t a misfit: she embodies a bold and restless spirit of her people that has been denied for too long. Watch Moana Free Here.
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