but said their view was invalid and stupid

tyrranitime:

queenstravelingdarling:

12thglokage:

mirvedabaddon:

teatoppy:

blad-the-inhaler:

i-want-cheese:

awkwardblacknerd:

I still think Moana deserved an Oscar for this part

To me, the moral of Moana is that only women can help other women heal from male violence.

The movie starts with the idea that the male god who wronged Te Fiti must be the one to heal her. This seems to make a certain sort of intuitive sense in that I think we all believe that if you do something wrong you should try to make it right. But how does he try to right it? Through more violence. Of course that failed.

It was only when another woman, Moana, saw past the “demon of earth and fire” that the traumatized Te Fiti had become (what a good metaphor for trauma, right?) and met her with love instead of violence that she was able to heal. Note that they do the forehead press before Moana restores the heart, while Te Fiti is still Te Kā. Moana doesn’t wait for her beautiful island goddess to appear in all her green splendor before greeting and treating her as someone deserving of love.

Moana is only able to restore the heart because Te Kā reveals her vulnerability and allows Moana to touch her there. Maui and his male violence could only ever have resulted in more ruin.

…this is exactly what I was trying to say and you put it beautifully. @i-want-cheese This is why the scene makes me tear up every damn time. Women’s honest, ugly reaction to trauma is almost never even depicted in films, let alone honored the way it is in Moana. Te Fiti doesn’t have to “rise above” being violated before she’s allowed to heal. Moana sees her and says

I know your name
They have stolen the heart from inside you
But this does not define you

She utterly accepts Te Fiti’s rage, her fear, her lashing out at anyone who comes near the remains of her ravaged ~~body~~ island. Female ugliness isn’t punished, it’s mourned and loved. What an indescribably comforting moment.

Welp I’m crying

@beautyandherbeasts

Let us not forget that the cause of her rage was a narcissistic asshole who would do anything to make himself sound like a hero.

Damn y’all…..💔

No no no no NO NO NO

That is NOT the moral of Moana, not even CLOSE

The entire point of the story of Moana is that HUMANS ARE GREEDY ASSHOLES
It’s literally stated in the movie that Maui took the heart TO GIVE TO THE HUMANS because he wanted their love. He wanted to please them, so he brought islands, coconuts, sunlight, everything they could want, But they wanted more, so he brought the heart

It has NOTHING to do with male violence towards women

Let’s go through cheese’s points on the matter:

“Maui tries to heal Te Fiti through violence!”
Where? When? What the fuck movie were you watching? Yes, Te Fiti turned into Te Ka after the heart was stolen, but Maui didn’t know that. To Maui, Te Ka was an entirely separate entity. His ONLY reason for trying to fight Te Ka in the first place was so he could BRING THE HEART BACK TO TE FITI AND RESTORE BALANCE. So don’t even BRING your “violence” bullshit into this

“Te Fiti was traumatized and Moana saw through it!”
Te Fiti wasn’t traumatized, SHE WAS PISSED THE FUCK OFF. She had every right to be pissed off. She literally turned herself into a LAVA MONSTER and fucked Maui up throughout the ENTIRE movie. Maui was TERRIFIED of Te Ka. Moana realized at the end of the movie that Te Fiti was actually Te Ka, but that’s literally it. There’s no hidden meaning, there’s no “oh wow only women can heal women” It’s literally “holy shit Te Fiti is Te Ka and she’s pissed to hell!”

“Maui wouldn’t have been able to put the heart back!”
WELL NO SHIT SHERLOCK, MOANA IS THE MAIN CHARACTER FOR A REASON. Did you even watch the fucking movie? Like at all? Any of it? The POINT OF THE MOVIE is that Moana was chosen by the ocean to take Maui to restore the heart. I know you’re gonna say “oh but Maui is supposed to restore it” bitch no have you ever seen a main character? They always do the major climactic thing. Not to mention Maui was SAVING MOANA’S ASS FROM A LAVA MONSTER TRYING TO KILL THEM

So miss me with your “male violence” bullshit in Moana
Replace it with “humans are greedy fucks”
(There’s one reblog of this that does a way better job explaining it, and iirc it’s written by a Polynesian person. If I can find it, I’ll link it)