Ron Clements: Moana Analysis

Iowa native Ron Clements released his animated movie Moana in 2016. It is a Fantasy/Adventure movie that was adored by the many that gazed at it. As someone who adores animated movies, the enjoyment I had was baffling. Moana explores a young girl's dream to adventure, which was bashed by a demigod who ruined humanity. This movie mixes the art of adventure and the art of war as the young girl tries to restore humanity itself. This leads to the theme of stick to what you believe in no matter what others tell you.
Moana represents that nobody else understands you and that there will be people holding you back. This is conveyed by a conversation that Moana and her father, Chief Tui had at the beginning of the movie after the townsmen find no fish in the Lagoon. “What if... we fished beyond the reef?” is what Moana elaborates. Her dad says “No one goes beyond the reef.” Moana and her dad continue to argue about going past the reef. This supports the theme that nobody else understands you and that there will be people holding you back because Moana is trying to explain to her father that she needs to adventure off the reef. Her dad is holding her back from saving humanity itself. After, this dispute with Chief Tui, her mother explains to her that her father speaks from …show more content…
This is represented throughout the movie with the character Te Ka. Te Ka was a lava monster that Maui has previously tried to defeat. In the movie, after Moana shows Te Ka the heart of Te Fiti, she is shocked, then becomes angry. Te Ka charges to Moana through a path in the Ocean, and as she is about to reach her, Moana raises the heart of Te Fiti to her. She places the heart of Te Fiti, on Te Ka’s heart. She is transformed into beautiful green flora in the shape of a woman. This shows that there is light at the end of the tunnel because at first Te Ka was an evil monster, but she saw the light, and the heart of Te Fiti was