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Who could ever relate?

Raya (voiced by Kelly Marie Tran) in Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon

Thank God theres a cute baby to focus on.

All parallels to pleas for bipartisanship aside, theres a genuine emotional heft to the conflict at its center.

But the film has bursts of real transcendence despite that.

Namaari is key to the others.

Its moving not because its topical, but because the unguarded expression on her face feels so true.