Moana 2016


 

Moana

“We were voyagers."

“It's called wayfinding princess, and it's not just sales and knots. It's seeing where you're going in your mind. Knowing where you are by knowing where you've been.”

“Maybe the gods found you for a reason? Maybe the ocean brought you to them because it saw someone who was worthy to be saved.”
-Moana

You know when you think about it, it's delightfully inventive to tell a story about voyaging out into the sea by making water so visually enthralling. To be honest the inventiveness doesn't come from the water itself. It's the sheer artistic flex that is Moana. Joking aside, Moana is a true visual treat, the Disney artists have really outdone themselves this time. Though their skill is not just for show it wonderfully conveys the central theme of setting out on your own path, taking life as it drives you forward., Unsurprisingly this forward momentum can only be achieved if we understand where we are going and where we have come from. In all counts Moana balances between these two poles with enthusiastic charm and insightful residences.
Taking this classic Disney insight of setting out on your own Moana brings us full circle and places it within moving the auspices of dealing with past trauma.
In other words, Moana wonderfully illustrates the need to correctly understand our past in order to move through our present.
That is where Moana's real vibrancy comes into play. The film is a celebration of the past and the present, not the deletion of one or the other. Veteran Disney directors Ron Clemens and John Musker are joined by Don Hall, and the rest of their team to discover something delightfully insightful. That is, we cannot comprehend our future, without first understanding our true past.

Rated PG for peril, some scary images and brief thematic elements,

I found Moana to be insightfully entertaining, visually enthralling and charmingly meaningful. I hope in some way you do too.

Moana can be streamed on Disney Plus with a subscription. It is also available to purchase on any digital video streaming service. It is available physically on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD disc.



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