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Why didn't the magical water just deliver the heart to Te Fiti instead of Moana?


Just toss the damned thing on the island that Te Fiti was on. No need to get Moana involved.

Is an actual human, with tiny human dexterous fingers, needed to place the heart back in place?

Is Te Fiti distrustful of anyone other than a "special" human that will melt away her hate and suspicion, and that the water knew that Moana was "the One" who would do that?

Then why the need for Maui? And why can't the water just directly propel her directly and uneventfully to the island?

Is it that Moana needs to have her mind appropriately "conditioned" in order for the "moment of empathy" to occur between her and Te Fiti before the trust required for the two to come together can happen? The water knew all that, huh? Oh please, now the writers are just pressing their luck.

I feel like the writers started with a premise where the solution was a little too simple, and so convolutions were added for plot, but it's artificial and unconvincing.

That's what happens when you create a story by filling in the blanks in a mad-libs, Hero's Journey template.

The movie is a thumbs up because of the sheer visual beauty and the technical aspects, but boy does the story leave something to be desired.

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There's a lot of Polynesian artefacts to the story and it is rather a retelling of them than it is a logically efficient mechanism to restore balance to that world.

Check out this quick video for some interesting theories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg2EA0XEnRM

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Maui actually brought this up in a conversation later in the film. It wasn't entirely about ending Te Ka's curse. For a long time, the people of the islands had stopped exploring, stopped trying to move out of their comfort zones and find new things. Their very existence was stagnating. The ocean deliberately chose Moana because not only did she have what it took to end the curse, she could also inspire her people, as well as other islanders, to get back out onto the ocean again.

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There wouldn’t have been a story to tell if Moana didn't have to do anything.
It is no more complicated than that.

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