10 Movie Messages Completely Undermined By Their Ending

10. It's Important To Trust People - Raya & The Last Dragon

Raya and the Last Dragon's central thematic is about trust, that the world will only get better if you're able to co-operate with the people around you.

Sisu (Awkwafina) straight-up tells the cynical protagonist Raya (Kelly Marie Tran) that she can't expect others to trust her if she herself cannot trust others.

And yet, Raya's open distrust is completely understandable given that her friend from another tribe, Namaari (Gemma Chan), literally betrays her in an attempt to help her own clan steal the focal magical gem.

More to the point, Namaari betrays Raya a second time later in the film, resulting in Sisu's death, so to say that the world is a mess because of mutual distrust doesn't quite wash considering what Raya has experienced with her "friend."

The ending even straight-up criticises Raya for her distrust apparently playing a part in Sisu's death, before she and Namaari finally make peace with one another.

Yeah, sometimes it's completely reasonable to not trust somebody, and in the case of Namaari nobody could be blamed for giving her the side-eye.

Inadvertently, the message some kids might take away from this movie is "let people walk all over you time and time again."