5 Life Lessons and Moral Value In Disney's "Moana (2016)" (Spoilers Alert!)

19/3/2017

5 Life Lessons and Moral Value In Disney's "Moana (2016)" (Spoilers Alert!)

1) You can't shelter your loved ones from the world forever. Learn to let go and trust that they will be okay.

Moana's father Tui refused to let Moana venture beyond the reef due to his own bad experiences out at sea.

He was trying to protect Moana and the villagers of Motonui from danger, but his overprotective way wasn't working.

The fish were becoming scarce and the vegetation were dying because of the curse upon the world that began when the heart Te Fiti was stolen.

It took Moana sailing beyond the reef and restoring the heart of Te Fiti to bring life and peace back to the world.

5 Life Lessons and Moral Value In Disney's "Moana (2016)" (Spoilers Alert!)

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2) Encouragement from our friends and loved ones is a very powerful motivation to keep us going in difficult times. Even the strongest people can feel afraid!

Despite being a powerful demigod, Maui was afraid of the heart of Te Fiti because after stealing it for the humans, he lost his magical fish hook when attacked by the lava demon Te Ka. Without the fish hook, he lost his shapeshifting powers.

Thanks to some encouragement from Moana, Maui was able to pluck up the courage and motivation to embark on the journey to retrieve his lost fish hook and to restore the heart of Te Fiti.

5 Life Lessons and Moral Value In Disney's "Moana (2016)" (Spoilers Alert!)

3) Being self-absorbed is a disadvantage. It distracts you from important things.

In Lalotai, the Realm of Monsters, lived a giant coconut crab monster called Tamatoa.

It was the one that took Maui's magical fish hook as its own, placing the hook as an ornament on its glittering golden shell.

Maui knew that Tamatoa's weakness was that it was totally narcissistic and self-absorbed, so he told Moana to distract it while he would retrieve the magical fish hook.

Using Tamatoa's narcissism to her advantage, Moana flattered it, causing Tamatoa to boast endlessly about itself.

While Tamatoa was distracted, Maui successfully retrieved the magical fish hook!

5 Life Lessons and Moral Value In Disney's "Moana (2016)" (Spoilers Alert!)

4) Experiencing devastating loss can push a good person to become corrupt and evil.

Te Ka the lava demon turned out to be Te Fiti without her heart!
Without her heart, she was filled with rage, causing her to take on the angry and destructive demon form.

After Moana restored the heart of Te Fiti, Te Ka turned back into Te Fiti the goddess.
The trees and vegetation immediately bloomed, signalling the end of the curse of death and decay that was upon the world.

5 Life Lessons and Moral Value In Disney's "Moana (2016)" (Spoilers Alert!)

5) When you embrace what you're destined to do, that's when you fulfill your greatest potential!

Moana discovered the hidden truth that the ancestors of the villagers of Motonui were actually voyagers.
They were once skilled "wayfinders", sailing the ocean in search of new islands.

When the villagers embraced their legacy as voyagers and adopted that way of life again, they became happier than before.

They had found meaning to their lives. They weren't meant to hide on an island, they were destined to explore the world!

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What moral lessons did you take away from this movie? If you haven't watched it, would you want to? Leave a comment below!

Would you be interested in reading the 5 Life Lessons posts of any of the following movies or shows?

Warcraft: The Beginning (2016)

The Huntsman: Winter's War

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5 Life Lessons and Moral Value In Disney's "Moana (2016)" (Spoilers Alert!)

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27/1/2020 12:54:50 am

The lessons you took away from Moana seem very spot on, however, I also see a second set of lessons (or rather a single overarching social lesson).

I have two daughters, a 4 year old and the other is almost 2. I finally sat down and watched Moana with them and picked up on a great message I believe was written into the movie. Actually, I think it could be the MAIN focus of the movie. Aside from the protagonist being a young female finding the courage and ability to save her world and become someone great in her own right, not through birth, there is an even deeper social commentary.

Patriarchy. Moanas people are full of representtradition and doing things how they've always been done, for better or worse. A good people but stubborn when it comes to change. Or rather they are afraid of change. Afraid in part because they don't want to upset the "gods" or the powers that be. However, those gods took their heart, their soul as a proud people. And sadly, they've all but completely given up on taking it back and being the great society they once we're.

This not only represents minorities very strongly in a colonized imperial world, but also a generalization of our society as a whole in relation to the standards of the social structures in which we live together. We, you and me, our kids and our friends, all live under the thumb of a "tradition" or way of doing things that is killing us all. But we are either too afraid to take on the "gods" or the powers that be (i.e. old money, the few who run global economies, governments, and laws), or we just don't have the heart to. We too are missing our heart and passion as a society.

There's more. The reason behind the way things are is because these few in power, our demi gods- the global elites. And they run things from a very misogynistic patriarchy. Old men with old money who like things this way. In fact they think we should be thankful to them for the world they've given us. Who does that sound like? Maui. Overconfident, narcissistic, condescending and a bragger. Very powerful and has the greatest intentions sometimes, but he does things the wrong way too. He has little if any regard for a single person if life is lost in the process. It's collateral damage. A necessary evil. Maui doesn't see the trouble he's caused until Moana shows him. Forces him to look. All the while Maui patronizes and looks down on the weak foolish girl even though she keeps disproving Maui at every turn.

You're probably thinking "but Maui isn't the bad guy in this." He is though. It was his idea that just because he had all this power, it meant that he knew what was best for everyone when in fact he just made a mess of things. But you're right also. Because Maui (the patriarchy, the elite, the current power structure behind society and therefore, society's outdated philosophy on gender roles in particular) is also a victim of someone (or something). The crab. He represents all that is wrong with humans. Greed, narcissism, gluttony and power. He is the embodiment of all the things that make the patriarchy the way it is- why they do what they do.

And what does the crab have that is the most prized possession? The one thing Maui and Moana need in order to defeat him? Maui's fish hook. What does this fish hook give Maui the power to do?... the power to CHANGE. And in the process of getting back his hook, his power to change (i.e. the power structure's WILL to change, Moana also helps Maui change his perception of the people. His respect for society is realized and his foolish unfair view of society, particularly women and their ability to run society just as well, if not better, than the elite and better than men as a whole.

What do you think?

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