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It’s not every Disney movie that leaves you thinking about food.
Raya and the Last Dragon is a lush, gorgeous work of animation with epic fight scenes, a doubting heroine, and a giddy water dragon and it’s a movie that remembers that people need to eat, and that eating together is meaningful. Watching the enterprising young chef Boun (Izaac Wang) dole out his dishes to a gaggle of newfound friends, I missed more than ever the experience of food as community, as a reason and a way to come together.
Early in the film, Chief Benja (Daniel Dae Kim) uses food as an example of how different elements create a magical whole. He adds something from each of his world’s five lands shrimp paste, lemongrass, bamboo shoots, chilis, and palm sugar to a bowl of soup. Every piece is necessary for the dish to be complete. It reflects his dream for their broken world: That the five clashing nations of Heart, Talon, Fang, Spine, and Tail can reunite as Kumandra, the single h
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Moana, where a young heroine also embarks on a quest to save her beloved family and land.
But just like how
Moana is refreshing because of the Polynesian cultures integrated into the story, the writers of
Raya and the Last Dragon, Adele Lim and Qui Nguyen, manage to trace back their Southeast Asian roots (the former is Malaysian American while the latter is Vietnamese American) and incorporate them into the movie in small details.
Look no further than in the design of the characters. Where most Hollywood productions centering on Asian and/or Asian American stories tend to only feature characters with pale skin, the characters in