>>90057053The movie is about the struggle between doing what you want and doing what is right, about fulfilling your duties without forgetting your self and wishes
Maui wished to be loved by everyone, kept doing favours for humans but he was reckless in pursue of such love, and eventually doomed the world, until the events of the movie teach him his place
Tefiti was a benevolent deity, until she lost her heart and "forgot" her role
Moana starts the movie costantly going back and forward between being a responsible leader and a dreamy adventurer. Eventually her personal wishes, as the movie explains very fucking clearly, come in the way of her mission of saving the world, she risked her life and Maui's to prove she could be that adventurer. That trauma and grandma ghost give her the reality check needed to understand she has to think things through because she has a responsibility instead of going "I CAN DO IT BECAUSE I'M ME"
THAT'S her struggle. It's not about learning how to lead or gymnastics, the movie establishes she's good with that, it's not important how, just like it's not important to understand how Aladdin became a fucking ninja despite being a starving poorfag
Thamatoa is the thematic opposite of all of this because he has only pursued his wish for glam, which made him a lonely wee crab
I don't know why I'm even explaining this, the movie's so straightforward
