Our politically charred landscape has provoked more discussion than usual of safe spaces \u2014 those zones of physical, cultural and ideological refuge that are typically spoken of with either earnest sincerity or harsh derision. The Twitter-fueled brouhaha around a recent performance of the Broadway musical \u201cHamilton,\u201d where Vice President-elect Mike Pence found himself booed by the audience and publicly called out by a member of the cast, turned the very notion of a safe space on its head: Whose sanctuary was being intruded upon? Who was in violation?<\/span><\/p>\n That debate will be continued, though probably not concluded, in a different forum. Still, my thoughts kept returning to it not long after I saw Disney\u2019s \u201cMoana,\u201d and not just because this bright, bouncy, insistently enchanting computer-animated fantasy features a soundtrack of songs co-written by Lin-Manuel Miranda \u2014 the chief creative force behind \u201cHamilton\u201d and a current poster child for the sort of popular art that knows no racial, historical or imaginative boundaries.<\/span><\/p>\n In short, any theater showing \u201cMoana\u201d \u2014 a movie steeped in ancient Polynesian folklore and bronzed to a shiny, state-of-the-art Disney polish \u2014 probably represents the safest space you could possibly find in this holiday moviegoing season. Audiences in search of bright colors, easy jokes and family-friendly vibes will find sweet relief here from the drunken, misanthropic high jinks of \u201cBad Santa 2.\u201d Those seeking a vacation from everyday reality without springing for that last-minute island getaway will scarcely believe their good fortune.<\/span><\/p>\n At the simplest level, the endangerment of a safe space \u2014 a simpler term for it would be \u201chome\u201d \u2014 forms \u201cMoana\u2019s\u201d very premise. Written by Jared Bush (in his second Disney-produced screenplay of the year, after \u201cZootopia\u201d), the movie begins on the beautiful South Pacific island of Motunui, where, mere minutes after providing a buoyant musical introduction to their lush agrarian paradise, the villagers suddenly find their way of life threatened by crop disease and fish shortages.<\/span><\/p>\n Source:\u00a0http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/movies\/la-et-mn-moana-review-20161119-story.html<\/span><\/p>\n