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⌈ Secret Post #2416 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

*sigh*

True they could have articulated it better but the point WASN'T romance is important so much as "you NEED other things in your life besides one thing".

Tiana was turning down occasions to go out and spend time with her friends and ignoring EVERYTHING that wasn't 'makemoneymakemoneymakemoneymakemoney'. Her friends once even commented that "all she did was work". That's not healthy.

Naveen on the other hand never did anything but goof around and play living for the moment. That wasn't healthy either.

Princess and the Frog was about achieving a balance.

(Also to refute the "all that matters is romance" Lottie never found the romance she spent her life looking for. At the end she made a playful joke about the fact when dancing with the Prince's younger brother. She wasn't crushed , even after she gave up Naveen for her friend. She wasn't bitter. She found a way to be happy even though she never found her Prince.)

Let's face it if Tiana had gotten her resteraunt in the beginning and made her life about the business and she kept up her workaholic nature she'd get burnt out quickly. If she didn't have many other relationships with people and was always saying "no I have to work" she would be miserable.

The movie was about achieving a balance in life and not wrapping your entire life around one thing. Dreams are good to have as goals, but if all your happiness relies on getting that dream alone, then you're setting yourself up for struggle. You have to be well rounded. I love writing but if I staked all my happiness on whether I made the bestseller list , there would be a slim chance I'd be happy and a large chance I'd be miserable. Sometimes you have to learn to let friends in -maybe not a significant other but people. You have to find happiness in life and the meantime.

It's good to be hardworking....but doing nothing but working all the time is not healthy for anyone, man or woman.

[(Anonymous)]

This.

I'm the first to admit that the movie had flaws, but having the moral of the movie be that girls need to always be concerned about landing a big, strong man sure wasn't one of them (but of course romance was a component of the movie, what else would anyone expect from a Disney Princess film???). If Tiana had given up on her restaurant dream to live with Naveen in his home country and live in the lap of luxury for the rest of her life, then I would buy that it had a twisted moral. And you know what? She probably could have done that. I think it was implied that Naveen's family had unbanished him at the end of the film (assumably because they saw what a good influence Tiana had been on their once lazy, selfish and unmotivated child) after all, so I'm guessing she and Naveen most likely had the option to go back to Maldonia. But she was committed to her dream, worked hard, and opened her restaurant. I just don't see how that's a terrible moral.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. One of the things I *did* appreciate about an otherwise enjoyable, but not stellar, film (imo) was that Tiana's story was kind of genderswapped in some ways. Like, yes, we have seen the "fun-loving guy makes frigid woman warm up" trope plenty of times, but something about the very specific dream of owning her own business and busting her ass made the story read more, to me, as a switch on the usual "super serious businessman learns to value love and family" story line. And I thought that was rad.

And I thought it was even more rad that she *didn't* give up her dream. She kept her old dream, but she made room for Naveen in it. And Naveen was supportive of her dreams and helped to make her restaurant business work, which is actually pretty huge, given how many grownass men TO THIS DAY still seem terrified of women who are driven and ambitious.

There are a lot of problems with this movie, but I definitely don't see any problem with the way the work/love plot worked out.