Audiences in search of bright colors, easy jokes and family-friendly vibes will find sweet relief here from the drunken, misanthropic high jinks of “Bad Santa 2.” Those seeking a vacation from everyday reality without springing for that last-minute island getaway will scarcely believe their good fortune. In short, any theater showing “Moana” - a movie steeped in ancient Polynesian folklore and bronzed to a shiny, state-of-the-art Disney polish - probably represents the safest space you could possibly find in this holiday moviegoing season.

Still, my thoughts kept returning to it not long after I saw Disney’s “Moana,” and not just because this bright, bouncy, insistently enchanting computer-animated fantasy features a soundtrack of songs co-written by Lin-Manuel Miranda - the chief creative force behind “Hamilton” and a current poster child for the sort of popular art that knows no racial, historical or imaginative boundaries. That debate will be continued, though probably not concluded, in a different forum. The Twitter-fueled brouhaha around a recent performance of the Broadway musical “Hamilton,” 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? Our politically charred landscape has provoked more discussion than usual of safe spaces - those zones of physical, cultural and ideological refuge that are typically spoken of with either earnest sincerity or harsh derision.

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