I FINALLY SAW ENCANTO! (BREAKDOWN & REVIEW)
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- Bill shares his thoughts, analysis, and review of Disney's Encanto! After finally watching Disney's new animated musical movie let's talk about Bruno, Mirabel, Abuela, Luisa, Isabela, Dolores, Pepa, Camilo and the rest of the family Madrigal! (Songs from Encanto by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Germaine Franco) Set in Colombia about Mirabel and her dysfunctional magic family, who must learn to understand each other to save their magic. Let him know if you want more Encanto videos, or what to watch/listen to next in the comments, and don't forget to like the video, subscribe, and ring the bell if you're so inclined!
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For Abuela, she didn't just not return to the river, she physically couldn't. The mountains blocked it. Just another barrier to her processing her trauma
I loved that her backstory twice, because the stories were wildly different. She wasn't even acknowledging what actually happened
@@charmer129 I think that also had to do with the fact that she was telling the story to a 5 year old though
Never thought about the mountains, good catch!
See, I go back and forth on that. I thought the same thing, but on rewatch, the mountains seem to grow up around them while she’s still in the river. I don’t know if the river ends up going over the mountains or something, but it’s a confusing detail.
So who is the cause of that barrier? The magical candle? The miracle that came to Alma in her darkest hour? Look at that again? In the story she told when Mirabel was a kid, it did come out of nowhere. But in the version we see in the end Alma cries out in grief and despeartion and that seems to manifest in the candle. You can even see the cracks appear when Alma looses control and disappear when she regains it throughout the movie. Alma herself has erected that barrier, that cocoon around her.
I actually appreciated that they showed Alma's backstory twice, because we actually end up seeing it in two different lights. We see the version that she tells the kids, and it's almost romanticised; it's sad, yes, but we quickly move on from the loss of Pedro to the birth of the miracle. In contrast, when she's speaking to Mirabel by the river, it is all about what they lost, about her pain, how much she was forced to give up; in the initial story we don't see the extent of her grief, we don't see how she _screamed_ as Pedro was killed. The magic didn't come into the world gently like in her story, it _exploded_ with all the force of her grief and her pain.
I dunno, it may not have been necessary to go over it twice, but I personally appreciated the differences, and what they tell us about Alma as a character.
Me too! The contrast between the two versions is so strong and heartbreaking
You explained this so much better than I tried to. You should just have all my words, but I’m clarifying that this is a joke in case you’re part of the Fae …
Agree. The first time is told as a fairy tale, the second as a love tragedy. The tone shift changes the perspective on the miracle.
I'm glad so many others noticed this too, so heartbreaking. Beautiful storytelling.
You worded this perfectly
I find the use of the word "gift" was very deliberate. As a "gifted" kid I *felt* this movie in my bones.
Also, Justice for Camilo.
what’s your gift dude?
YOOOO IS THAT YOHAN IN UR PFP
As a gifted kid, this movie is *chef’s kiss*
As a gifted kid, I second this
as a former gifted kid who cant relax even when i have free time, i agree
One of my favorite subtle moments was when at the breakfast table discussing Isabela's engagement, Isabela's terrified response to Mariano wanting five kids. The flowers that bloom in her hair are all pink except for one white one, and the white one is the one Abuela plucks from her hair and discards. It plants the seed that Isabela's powers can reveal more about how she feels than it seems, and that Abuela discards whatever is out of place and doesn't fit the image she wants.
Abuela also physically moves her. She pushes her shoulders down, fixes her face and moves her face to make Isabela appear perfect
I loved that they did Bruno's color lime green, especially because in a TON of Disney films, the villian's color around them is lime green. They did that on purpose because he's painted in the family and community as a villain, even though he actually isn't.
I read plenty of Colombian people say that the reason Bruno is wearing green (as well as Mirabel's glasses being green) is because to them it represents change, it doesn't have the villain-esque connotation that Disney gave it.
It doesn't take away that it's a very funny coincidence that gave way to a perfectly executed twist, though!
He could be in green to show him fading into the background. At the Disney parks, they have a certain color something like “no see em green” that the paint outdoor utility sections that can’t be hidden. Just a thought.
@@ta-theoadonis465 also I believe Colombia is the top producer of Emeralds. And emeralds in their culture are often used by seers.
@@Samu_Raaay it could be a combination of Emeralds and the Disney villain color.
Same!
isabela is actually the oldest cousin by a few months! she & dolores are both 21, but isa is older hence why she’s the one having to be perfect & marry mariano. her being the oldest & also looking the most like abuela both impact why her role was to be the perfect golden child and live the perfect life that abuela wasn’t able to. abuela was quite literally living vicariously through isa
isa is the oldest grandchild yeah but in the story dolores is still the oldest _cousin_, at least from the perspective of mirabel
@CSTILLQ Sure, but in 13:15, he says she's the oldest cousin /of the bunch/. Not just from the perspective of Mirabel but out of all the grandchildren. I think that's what @McKenna DeFranco was trying to clarify. 👍
I thought isa was 22
@@tamiareyes2867 some places say 22 & some say 21
Only thing I would add is that as a Colombian there is a lot of generational trauma passed down from a lots of political massacres and other horrifying instances that make dos oruguitas hit harder. Knowing that in Colombia, having the highest index of in-migration due to conflict depicts, the reality of a big chunk of the population here.
I'm really impressed that they managed to include the reality of all the violences that have touched the lives of every Colombian in the movie, but that they didn't make the story about that violence and instead focused on the family's internal struggles as well as on the things that they do as a family to move forward together despite the fear and the pain. I love it.
THISSS. Say it louder for the back!!!
Immigration: IM = into the country
Emigration: E (like egress and exit) = out of the country
@@Chemeleon15 cool because the statistics I talk about are from the country to another city or part of the same country
Theoretically Antonio's gift could've been used for things like veterinarian work because he could help them identify what's going on since he can just, ask :)
Mabey, but think about usual doctors. Mabey they ask you "what simptoms fo you have" or " where does is hurt" but still the analysis of a disesse is more than just asking
@@bdariamihaela that's true but it would certainly be easier for a vet since he could act as a translater for that sort of stuff
@@JamBalll yes. I guess we'll have to wait for a sequel to be sure
Or he could take over getting the donkeys from Luisa because he could just tell them to go home.
@@dragedragneel8850big brain
In "We Don't Talk About Bruno", you can hear Isa saying "I'm fine" while the animation shows her DISTRAUGHT (when the people are circling Mirabel as she puts the vision together)
Dolores says “I’m fine” as well. She was emphasizing that she “was fine” that the man of her dreams was getting married to her cousin :)
both Dolores and Isabela sing “I’m fine” and “I’ll be fine” respectively. both, however, were lying to themselves, the same way alot of people in real life lie to themselves.
specifically, Dolores and Isabela sang "I'm fine" together repeatedly, but Isabela switches to "I'll be fine" on the last one.
With Luisa people don’t realize she’s only 19….that’s a lot of pressure for someone who is still a teenager and it shouldn’t be just her responsibility to make sure she’s ok and have boundaries
The more I think about it, the more I feel bad for Camilo, too. He's the kind of forgotten middle child, and he is useful to the family by becoming other people. He literally becomes what the family needs, in any situation. He uses humor, he de-escalates situations, he's the salve to the family irritations. I could see him having a personality crisis, with him maybe not knowing who he is, beyond his gift and his role, and if people would even like that true version of him.
Yeah, sadly he isn't Camilo he is whomever they actually need in that moment.
he plays a big and active role in placating his mother's temperament...in other words, he is a child who looks after the parent with a health condition..anyone who has had a parent depending on them knows that feeling.
Camilo is actually my favorite character because I enjoyed his personality the most, but it's so easy to see him falling into a situation like that had Abuela not been confronted.
I actually like that Abuelas backstory was shown twice. Because it shows how different it actually was from how she tells it. Like in the beginning she focused on the miracle instead of the tragedy, Abuelo is even shown just fading away. My mom used to do the same thing. How she told us about her coming to America and how my older brother told us were two completely different stories. But that’s just me
I agree, it feels sooooo different the second time the movie tells the story. You see the sword raise up instead of him just fading away, and I’ve never seen Disney put that much despair in a character as when Abuela collapses. Like, of course there’s been a lot of well-depicted sorrow in other movies, but her grief was somehow so REAL.
yes yes yes. People with PTSD absolutely do water down their traumas.
I joke about my traumas a lot to people with little "aha my parents beat me" jokes and will even tell people horror stories from my childhood and shrug them off. But the truth is that there are parts of it that still have me really fucked up to this day that I keep quiet. Being gaslit, for example, is something I really underemphasize. Because feeling like I was going insane and that I could not even find safety in my own mind is something that was really horrifying and traumatic to endure, but I rarely feel safe sharing that with people who haven't experienced the same.
It's both a fear of the dangers surrounding vulnerability and the depressing reality that nobody really knows what having PTSD is like unless they themselves also suffer through it. I've tried, trust me. Facing my fears and opening up about my true feelings only to have people not make a proper effort to actually understand what I'm feeling and what I need from them is precisely why I chose to iscolate myself even more and just pretend I'm handling things with more ease than I am.
Regarding your food theory: with a family this big, in this culture, at least one batch if not more of these would have been made up everyday.
Also interesting with a family this big, the cook (in this case obviously Julieta) knows exactly how much food the family needs everyday, She would have noticed that the amount eaten never changed once Bruno left. And she never made any less. Make of that what you will.
But wouldn't she have been constantly cooking in advance for the community? Like as many extras as possible I would think 😅
thaaank yooouuu! lol good point! she would know how much the family ate!
When you make arepas you don’t make just one. In my house we were just 5 people and food just disappeared, everyone ate everything. Also, Camilo has lots of seconds so if you cook a lot it’s ok because nothing will go to waste
There is a tradition in small villages in Latin America, to cook a bit more of food, an extra food in case you have an unexpected visit, and that can happen a lot in small villages.. "un plato de más, por si alguien tiene hambre"
@@jrgarcesg2 Simón, en pueblitos o ciudades chiquitas ese pedo es súper normal
I’ve seen several comments addressing it, but still, the _vast_ difference between seeing pedro fading away while walking through the river and learning that pedro was _murdered_ with a machete, and even though we don’t see the actual act being done, we see alma’s reaction, we see her _screaming_ in agony, _collapsing_ in pain, _clutching_ her children to her. To be completely honest, i thought pedro had drowned in the river, disney often uses these vague metaphors so i thought that “lost to the river” was their way of saying it. We knew that pedro’s sacrifice to the river was what sparked the encanto. not that alma’s _grief_ was too much to carry in her, so much so that she _burned,_ that the magic _exploded_ out of her as she mourned and raged. it puts everything into place. things finally click. why she’d been clutching so hard at the candle, at the magic, at the _encanto._ it wasnt that she didn’t want to lose her home, it was that she _couldn’t._ when the house collapses you can see her shock, you can see the _horror_ at what happened. not because she lost her home, but because she lost her home _again._ the scene by the river, it was a movie flashback, obviously, but i think it was also a ptsd flashback. her husband was _killed_ before her. he was _murdered protecting his family._ alma never fully recovered from that trauma. and in doing so, she traumatized her own family.
no one’s trauma is more valid than anyone elses’. all their traumas are valid and equal, even if they were never meant to be caused. there is so much alma slander online, about how evil she is because she traumatized the whole family. no. _fuck that._ alma was forced to flee her home and watched as her husband was murdered in front of her and then had to raise her _three magical children_ by herself. it does not excuse what she did, it does not change what she did, it will _never_ excuse what she did, but it does put into perspective. mirabel loves her grandmother, loves her family. they have hurt her. everyone in this family has hurt one another, and in real life, nobody in this movie ever would be forced to forgive another person for what happened. but in the movie, they came together and loved each other and because its a disney movie so we dont get to see the rest of the messy, broken pieces of this messy, broken family. we dont see the crying or the grieving for one’s childhood or the guilt at whats been done or any of that shit. they love each other. stop bashing characters. this movie is about family and inter-generational trauma.
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That was beautiful
I think it's also the first time in Disney animation that we are shown grief so clearly portrayed..usually, when a character dies, it fades to black or they show the sad surviving character from the back
Agree totally. But something else. People didn't realize the extent of Pedro's murder brutality. He was killed by 4 guys holding MACHETES, he was torn apart piece by piece, in a very bloody and savage way, just in front of her. Just imagine the screams and the sounds of that. That's why that scene has no sound, is too much for kids. That's how horrible PTSDs are created. Abuela is just a victim, a very very strong one, but still a victim.
It speaks to the "two sides to every story" theme of the movie. The outward appearances that we project to the world, and the hidden pain inside.
A theory I've seen going around that I personally love is that Mirabel's "gift" is that she is the next matriarch. Neither she nor Abuela have a gift, and it would make sense that since Abuela is getting older, she needs a successor, so the house chose Mirabel to take her place after she was gone. It would also make sense that this would be why the cracks started after mirabel got her gift. The family already was having conflict, but now there's also disharmony between the two living matriarchs. Idk, just some food for thought. As always, thanks! Loved hearing your thoughts!
Omg that makes so much sense! I was wondering throughout the film what Abuela’s power was but Mirabel becoming the successor would be such a great idea! It would makes for a good series like bill said. It could be about Mirabel learning to become the successor and learning how to take care of the family
The door disappears and what is left, is the wall of the house.
That is a great theory!!!
A theory that I found is that Mirabel actually did get a gift, and her gift is being the embodiment of the magic, like the candle. And her emotions are tied to the magic, as well as the amount of hope she shows. I noticed throughout the movie that every time her hope flickered, Casita cracked and the candle faltered. Like when Casita crumbled is when Mirabel was at her lowest point. She was out of hope, and the magic became unstable and withered away because of it. It's just a theory, but I feel like it fits the story pretty well
I love this theory to. I definitely think that was kind of what they were going for.
no one talks about how Dos Oroguitas the song talks about the caterpillars dealing with hunger, surviving the weather, and not knowing what is to come. That's because the triplets Bruno, Julieta, and Peppa receive powers that address Abuela and Abuelos fears of the move and even losing Abuelo. bruno sees the future they can work for, Julieta heals through food, peppa controls the weather. The triplets inherited the trauma, struggles, and responsibility from their parents. Peppa and Julieta transfer that same trauma, struggles, and responsibility to their children. This is the generational trauma. They don't talk about Bruno? More like they do not talk about the past or the future that is being created out of the repressed trauma that was never worked through. I think Mirabel did not get a power because of Bruno, because the cracks in the family foundation was already there. Mirabel represents the cycle breaker, she does not get a gift because if she did she could not see OUT of the pressure and responsibility because she would see the bittersweetness of being loved for your gift while also being hurt by the responsibility. Her powerlessness allowed her to see the toxicity and not have the paradox of loving her gift get in the way of criticizing it. She needed to be able to criticize the way that things are, she is like a counselor able to see things without a bias.
Mirabel had to be the goo inside the chrysalis that dissolved the caterpillars, the home, the family, in order for them to grow and transform from that pain and rebuild their foundations. She carried both the trauma and the pain but also walked others through their own, she was the counselor.
I like this analysis very much.
Nah, Mirabel gets a gift. It’s the same one her grandmother got
I've also heard that the triplets are heavily tied in Greek mythology, Julieta representing the past, Pepa the present and Bruno the future.
I love everything about this comment. Bruno is the best boy, and mirabelle is the best girl. I want to give them both a big hug!
Probably because it's in Spanish haha, and we don't speak Spanish
As a Colombian, I kinda love how everyone talks about this movie. Personally, I loved it, it is a very personal story for every Colombian person because that root trauma is still very present in our country. It was a bold move to show that and I'm very very grateful for that.
Yes I agree! It's the first time that when I've introduced myself as a Colombian to someone, their first question hasn't been about drugs or kidnappings or any of that. I nearly cried when they were genuinely curious about the food and the music showed in the movie. It's so special and I'm so grateful that the creators put so mucho care and research into it. Also the way that people dealt with trauma, food music etc feels so authentic as well. Gosh i love it.
Imagine how overwhelmed Dolores was when she first got her gift... they get their gift at 5 years old... 5 years! They are already getting so much sensory they have to learn and prosess.... but imagine being in the middle of development and then getting super hearing. Also they shoot up fireworks when they get powers... superhearing. Imagine how scared 5 year old dolores was
Her name literally means pain! Sadly, I'm sure that was intentional....
I actually have better hearing than most people (my ear canals are shorter than normal so sounds don't get filtered as much) and it SUCKS. As soon as I heard that Dolores had super hearing I felt super sorry for her.
My hearing isn't even "super" and I already have to wear sleeves in my ears that shut down high pitched noises to do daily life; I wear custom ear plugs so I can go to work and not hate it; fireworks have ALWAYS been painful, even if I'm inside and I even wear earplugs to go to movies. Dolores must have had so many headaches and such bad tinnitus by the time she was like 10. That's just.... horrible to think about.
Sensory issues here, the fireworks thing screamed at me too.
My first thought was how deaf she probably felt when she lost her power. My hearing has been so-so recently and it’s been bothering me so much.
This power really seems awful man.
I hate even thinking about Dolores' gift because it gives me so much anxiety.
I think of Camilo as the typical middle child, being him having close to no screen time but being there all the time however barely noticed. if I think about it like that then its the perfect interpretation of what it feels like to be the middle child. I wish there was more time to the movie too.
As middle child, this info is correct
I thought it was very interesting the contrast in the 2 middle children. You had Camilo, who was portrayed as being a slacker/class clown character, and Luisa, the character who literally carried the world on her shoulders.
@@johncox7169 right I thought of Luisa more as like the older sister persona even tho Isabella is older, just by the fact that Luisa had to literally carry some of the family problems, and the fact that her mental health was neglected because she was portrayed as physically strong plays into that older sibling mentality too
We all saw him drop that shovel tho
@@kittynoir6668 middle child gang : )
i'm brazilian, from a big family, and because it's big we always make too much food. The fridge is always filled with leftovers, that's why i didn't even question Bruno getting away with it. Also I think Mirabel's mom makes extra food just for the sake of having it ready when someone needs it.
I come from a big family too, only I didn't question it for a separate reason, being from a large family you're used to making more food, and sometimes (most the time) after some leave home you keep making the same amount despite less mouths to feed, with julieta she would also be used to cooking for the town, so making food for one person is a harder task as there will always end up being too much.
i think them going over abuela's story twice made it somehow more impactful the second time? like idk i was talking about it with my friends because both times they're gone over, they're talked about differently. the story mirabel is told right before her ceremony is very soft and sweet and speaks of the family's gratefulness, while the second retelling shows just how like, traumatizing it was. and it doesn't feel like in that way, her backstory comes out of nowhere, you just understand where she's coming from more.
The shot of her on the floor with her babies afterwards hit even harder for me. She's just so alone.
@@musculusmouse Exactly, she may now have this magical Casita, but she's still alone to raise her children, and devastated by the loss of Pedro. It doesn't change into some happy magical moment where she smiles and waves at Casita, like it did in the first story telling. The miracle was born from her trauma. So sad... 😢
This is exactly how I saw it. I can only imagine that Abuela doesn’t want to truly relive her trauma, especially not the way it happened. She never felt like she needed to to be able to tell later generations about how they gained the miracle. But I think being back at the river where it happened truly brought back those feelings and she had to fully confront it that time.
It shows that she wasn't just "given" the miracle like she says, she suffered for it. She and her babies sacrificed for it.
i think it's the difference between knowing adults as a kid and knowing the adults as an equal. the tone is different because she can finally understand the depth of what abuela went through. it's that moment when you see that your parents and grandparents are just like you
I feel like Julieta being the lowest showing character made sense because she went through what Luisa is going through. Even though she is a triplet, she is the only sibling with grey hair, she has been overworking herself so much that she has no time for herself (and screen time).
Plus I feel like that prophecy to Isabella actually made her feel terrible, mistaking his prophecy like we did, as well thinking that it just means her life isn't going to change and she needs to stay perfect (in the song We Don't Talk About Bruno in the end Isabella repeats I'm fine I'm fine I'm fine after she sings her part).
okay but the 1st generation is just a foreshadowing to the second generation
Julieta: has the most practical gift and has worked herself to hell and back just like Luisa
Pepa: a nature-related gift that requires emotional stability, they both were forced to stay perfect/clear skies, Isabella
Bruno: the one that's disconnected from the family, not by choice but by never feeling good enough for the family Mirabel decided to stay optimistic and change things while Bruno was always more pessimistic so he chose to hideaway
Since the movie took place over a couple of days, and both of those were event days (Antonio's party and Isabella's theoretical engagement dinner), I wonder if she spent all her time in the kitchen cooking.
@@eoa363 she is feeding a large family in a culture that places emphasis on communal meals, and to add to that, her meals are required by the entire community for their healing properties... and half the things she would be making are not ready meals but things made from the base ingredients, which take time.
she probably spent her entire life in the kitchen... especially if you consider how young she was when her powers manifested... it's a wonder she even found time to have 3 kids...
@@dehro Um.... yes. But I was specifically talking about why we see so little of her during the film.
@@eoa363 gotcha.. My observation was more general
The entire movie was just made to make us all cry.
Yup!
My personal theory about Mirabel not getting a gift: Mirabel occupies the same space in the flow of magic as Abuela and the events of the film ensure that she will one day succeed her. The miracle came to Abuela in the form of casita, she (abuela) is the conduit for the magic of the miracle. Throughout the film Mirabel is the only one seen communicating with casita directly it even protects her with its last action before it's destroyed. She didn't receive a gift to expose the not great mindsets that the family had developed and better prepare them for a day when abuela is no longer around and someone else has to take stewardship of casita/family. But to do that abuela had to properly address her past trauma and let go of her need of control that was a response to said trauma. And casita chose mirabel to take that burden on. A good choice I think seeing how gracefully Mirabel acts about the whole thing and how much she supports Antonio when it would be so easy to be jealous. The understanding that Abuela and Mirabel come to ensures that Mirabel can move forward while still acknowledging the past. This is why Mirabel opening the door in the end brings the magic back as she also a conduit for the magic so the miracle came back to her.
(I also think that casita is actually the spirit of abuelo Pedro but that's a separate comment altogether)
I like the idea that the guardianship Abuela has over the family will one day become Mirabel's role.
We don't need the candle any more: the miracle is You.
In kinda the same vein, but another kinda theory (not originally my own):
I saw a headcanon floating about that Mirabel would’ve gotten a door similar to Abuela’s, signifying their shared connection to the miracle, but because Abuela’s fear and trauma had such an iron grip on the miracle and the family, she subconciously stopped Mirabel’s door from manifesting, since the candle wasn’t able to split itself between them.
The cracks forming in the Casita always got worse when Mirabel was struggling to find her own role in the family in spite of her Abuela, and the reason all the cracks originally went away after Waiting on a Miracle was because of Abuela’s steel will to not allow any flaws in Familia Madrigal.
Anyways - I love that the movie leaves room for all these little head-canons among fans ^_^ I’d love to read your breakdown of the ‘Casita is Abuelo Pedro’-theory!! 🤔
@@michellepehrsondupont3756 Bring on the "Abuelo Hole Theory" lol
@@michellepehrsondupont3756 its actually quite a simple theory the other post was just getting long lol.
Basically my idea of events is: Pedro dies -> his spirit manifests into the candle/casita. Mirabel greets Pedro every morning and casitas movements are him responding. Pedro was obviously a protective man and that's why his spirit helps mirabel, both helping her navigate the house and with stopping the toxic attitude that had developed because he loves her and abuela and doesn't want them to fight. This would mean that when casita protects mirabel like I mentioned it is Pedro protecting the way he knows best. By physically shielding her with himself and dying once again in the progress.
Exactly!
I noticed about Bruno's visions on a rewatch, that Bruno's power is incredibly specific (I'm guessing Bruno had a fascination with the occult already when he was young, much like how Antonio adored animals before he was officially given his gift) Bruno has to pour a ring of salt, light a match or a candle, meditate and gaze into the future. His visions take time. So I don't think he predicted ALL of the misfortunes that befell the town. I'm sure he did some, like when Alma was trying find a use for his gift, he probably read the fortunes of everyone in town. But in the song, It seems as if Bruno was making jokes or remarks to others. I really don't think everything he ever said was a vision. As he explained in the reprise, he said it looked like rain cause he was worried about his Sister having wedding jitters. So I can see him saying like "You'll grow a gut if you keep eating like that" or some innocent comments, or even some jokes (when he was possibly younger, like Camilo's age.) But after years and years of people believing EVERYTHING Bruno said was a prediction and if Bruno was talking to you it meant bad things would happen, lead to him isolating himself. Alma requesting a vision before Mirabel's gifting ceremony was probably the LAST proper vision he did in a super long time. Just judging from his and his Mom's expressions during Bruno's explanation of events..... Just my takeaway anyways.
I saw on twitter (I don't have the link but it was on Jared Bush's account) that he doesn't actually need to do the whole ritual thing to use his gift, it's some sort of superstition/coping mechanism
@@arlesdinosauremoji maybe it's even born from what op said, people mistaking everything he said for a premonition and Bruno getting more and more superstitious led to him doing the whole ritual thing, so then everyone can know when it's a vision and when it's just Bruno being Bruno
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I like the idea that he just constantly has visions, and that's why he's so paranoid
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But his visions manifest as these crystal plates. We didn't see a lot of those.
I think he actually has to look and it's hard and he barely understands the result any better than another onlooker.
It's just the knowledge that he CAN see the future that makes him scary to others. And he blames himself for seeing the potential of bad outcomes so he withdraws from both his powers and the family when his vision of Mirabel is seemingly catastrophic.
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Maybe he has like smaller and more vague visions whenever, but then to see it more clearly and manifest it as one of those plates he needs to do a ritual. I can't really think of any other explanation for why so many people got predictions from him...
But yea, it's true that people just took random offhand stuff he said as predictions, like when he was worried about it raining on pepa's wedding
so cool disclosure, my roommate is Argentine and a therapist, so these are his observations - not mine. He noticed that all of Auntie Pepa's kids have some form of dissociative power: listening, transforming into other people, and communicating with animals that can more easily give there love unconditionally. Which is well considered by the writers considering how they wrote Pepa, likely as a mother whose approval and disapproval were quick to gain and lose
All five magical kids, represent the senses. The triplets represent past, present and future.
Could you (or get him to) expand a little on listening as a dissociative trait? I'm incredibly curious and I like the insight!
@@Trickpants I asked him too, what he meant. I am paraphrasing because I am not a therapist, but he explained it something like this "if you remove the magic and this was amily with a mother having issues regulating her emotions with her kids, it is likely the oldest would become VERY good a gaging her mothers mood, very good at detecting when any flare up or conflict would arise, and mitigating the damage to herself emotionally - she would always be on alert, not paying close attention to herself and her own identity, but the emotions and mpact of those around her."
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Aaaah. And Camilo functions as a social chameleon. He becomes what he thinks his mother wants him to be, trying to anticipate and react by being someone else.
And the youngest just withdraws from human contact because he finds it too hard to understand because the people around are all constantly acting in different ways, reacting differently to the same stimulus.
@@MrHodoAstartes Also, his closest contact it Mirabel and it is her he turns to when he is so nervous in facing the door. Even though Abeula frowns upon her even being there.
My biggest theory is why Isabella is under so much pressure from Abuela. You can see in flashbacks she looks just like her, and Mariano looks alot like her husband which I think is maybe why she's pushing them together. I think abuela treats Isabella as a way to correct the wrongs of her own life. It even shows in the pictures and color scheme. The only picture she doesn't have both hands on the candle is Isabellas, and Isabellas family color scheme is blue, however she is in purple, because abuela is in red. This shows at the end of the movie when she makes her own dress and its primarily blue
Someone on tiktok said you know that Isabella has that prophecy in her room, where she will live the life of her dreams, and she repeats that in her head every day.
According to one pf the encanto books: "alma and sra.guzman have a very tense relationship described as “ a battle of politeness “. This makes Alma pushing Isa to get married to Mariano more interesting
Also because Isabela is under so much pressure and not allowed to make mistakes, she was never able to experiment with her power. That's why she was stuck in creating flowers and vines (with flowers) without any possibilities to try something new.
@@rubenhumbertoroquesalas2273 and when she made an imperfect flower at the table, when she panicked and made one white daisy among the purple ones, abuela removed it
Yep! You can see that abuela was grooming Isabela to be the next head of the family, right down to Isabela’s not-quite-right color scheme…..meanwhile, Mirabel has a butterfly the exact color of Abuela’s dress on her collar!
honestly i like that they didn’t say why mirabel doesn’t have power. not only does it sprout some awesome theories, but also it’s just realistic to not get all the answers, especially when looking at Mirabel’s lack of gift from a disability lens
One of the most important thing about the movie is one of its main references to Magic Realism, a literature genre in which most of the “magical” things that happen are a matter of fact and don’t need explanation. You can have a clue by looking at the yellow butterflies; those are part of One Hundred Years of Solitude, written by Gabriel García Marquez in 1967 (a Colombian writer) who is the most important example and “creator” of this literature genre. So, Mirabel lack of magic doesn’t need an explanation per se because you will see what happens with her roll in this numerous family.
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I love that you acknowledge that Dolores gift means that she has to have been good at keeping secrets. I've seen some people saying that the dinner scene proves that she can't keep a secret and and contradicts the idea that she knew Bruno was there when I'm like 'No' she couldn't handle keeping THAT secret. Her power means that Dolores has to have heard a lot of the family's, and the towns, secrets
Honestly, I believe the only reason Dolores told the secret about Mirabel talking to Bruno was purely because of her love for the guy(I can't remember his name) that Isabella was going to marry and wanted to delay the dinner/future wedding
I disagree about cutting the beginning. The mirroring between then and the end is so important. Why? Cause perspective. The beginning is the retelling, what she told all the kids before they get their powers, the story everyone knew. But the end was from abuelas perspective. It was what truly happened, with no hardship filtered out (the way she reaches out in the beginning vs the reality of her reaching but then falling to her knees sobbing because her husband died in front of her) or little moments left out of a retelling like the baby announcement. It was her story, unfiltered. And I think that was a very important thing to keep and a great introduction.
Here's some things I've noticed or that I haven't seen anyone say:
During "Family Madrigal" Mirabel says "My primo Camilo won't stop until he makes you smile today" I think that this is interesting because he's not really explored but what we get is a character who can quite literally be some one else. We don't know about his personality but his jokes he is always making when he is on screen. I think he feels the tension and is trying to deal with it in his way.
Another thing is that as an older sister I have felt more pressure since my sibling was born to be better for them so that they will be able to make mistakes when their older and I'll be able to help them out of them. I've felt that with Mirabel not getting a gift this could have caused her sisters to put more pressure on themselves because they may feel like they have to make up for what Mirabel can't do.
Camilo is the caretaker... he is seen actively care for his mother, bringing her tea/coffee and placating her nerves... he embodies all the people who look after an ailing relative... and he uses humour to mediate and diffuse tense situations around his loved ones.
It’s actually interesting how they told us that Bruno was there before we even found out. Dolores tell Maribel that she can hear him still. And if you look carefully you can see Bruno in the shadows on the balcony in this seen. It’s sad really he is hearing his family say why they’ve basically shunned him and what a burden he was to them and yet he still decides to stay help and watch over them even if it means he has to stay within the walls.
Especially when you realise the overlapping part of “we don’t talk about Bruno” happens in the kitchen when they are setting up for dinner. And it was later revealed that he was hiding mostly behind the kitchen and ate dinner with his family meaning he heard at least that whole bit. Which when I realised that broke my heart.
Antonio could help the donkeys not get out of place and that would ease Luisa’s workload. He can help pollination (ending in improving the fruit supply) he can be a sort of veterinarian. He can control pests. He could be like Aquaman on land. I think his gift might be more useful than Dolore’s or Camilo’s.
Do you reckon he spoke with Bruno's rats?
thinking about Isabela's plant powers now. they could supply the whole village with fruits and vegetables.
@@itisALWAYSR.A. in the movie he finds out about Bruno because the rats tell on him to Antonio lol
At the end of the film, we see Antonio direct his animals to do the labor Luisa was doing and then Casita made Luisa fall into a hammock and gave her a drink. Antonio's gift will be even more helpful if animals get sick or hurt or if they are just tired (like Luisa!).
Also my theory with Mirabell is that she is the next head of household. Everyone's symbol is on their clothing and hers is her butterfly, which is the symbol of the miracle
And I didn't even think of everyone being there. I bet she never really got to mourn not receiving a gift
The director of the movie says that he wants the series to expand on the characters as well, and a lot of people agree, so I hope that happens.
But also yes, I want more of this story that's not post-epilogue! I wish there were more time for Mirabel and Abuela to fix their relationship, more of the interactions between charas, it felt like the movie flew by too quickly, though I still love it
Who says a series can't include flashbacks to moments during or before the movie?
I feel like Antonio's gift is more for him than the family. It proven that kids and some adult find it easier to find comfort and companionship in animals than people that in a way it was to provide a support system for a kid who to an extent is aware of how conditional his family's love really is. And I think it's exacerbated by him sharing a room with Mirabelle and directly seeing her mistreatment within the family.
Also when she said to Mirabel “I asked my Pedro for help…Mirabel, he sent me you” absolutely destroyed me. My mother and my Nan lost my pop when my mother was 18 years old, so he never got to meet any of his grandchildren aside from one of my cousins, who was born to very young parents lol and my mother always likes to point out how much each of us four children of hers are just like him, my oldest brother is the spitting image of him, and my mum has said to me that I’m the most like him in my personality and nature wise. Something about Mirabel and her siblings and cousins not having their grandfather around really struck a chord with me, even more so because they never got the chance to meet him and know him, and I felt really quite represented by something even as little as that.
Mirabel is 15, i dont know why people keep thinking she's a "young adult" when shes actually a teenager
Because of how she acts
It's cause in Disney's art style there's practically no difference between adults and teens
In all fairness I think most people were just getting over the fact that’s Rosa Diaz.
@@DogsandPennies to be fair, it's also not always obvious in real life, some adults have baby faces and some teens are mistaken for adults all the time
@@CarlsCozyCorner she acts like a normal teenager
I believe that Mirabel was actually given a "gift" in that the house made her the embodiment of the candle. The character's clothing reflects their powers and Mirabel has butterflies on hers as does the house and the candle, marking her as having the deepest bond with the miracle even if she didn't show any powers. What made the theory really work for me is she knows Antonio will have animal based magic before he even gets his door, even giving him a stuffed jaguar like how he has an actual jaguar companion. And the cracks only begin to really show when Mirabel is at her lowest points, during "waiting for a miracle" and the fight with abuela. Plus Louisa only begins to really lose her strength when Mirabel sees how stressed she is and wants her sister to be able to relax.
I think it's more than her being the embodiment of the candle. She is there specifically to take over the role that Abuela Alma carries. But whereas Alma as the head of the family, Mirabel is the heart of the family. Yes she does have butterflies on her dress. But she also has some element that represent every member of the family. Everybody in the family has something in their clothing that represents their gift. But the only represent their own gift whereas hers represents their gifts as well.
I would say that we/Mirabel did not hear/see the grandmother's story twice. Sometimes, with oral histories, our elders will sanitize some of the more tragic or gory parts of their story in an effort to protect the person that they are telling the story to. That is why Mirabelle had such a revelation and new understanding when listening to her grandmother's story the final time. She was able to understand the fear, the tragic loss, not only of her grandmother's home but of the person who she loved. Abuelo didn't just disappear; he wasn't just lost; he was murdered in front of her. And her grief/anguish sparked the miracle
My favorite thing about this movie is how all characters *feel* like real people, and the whole also feels like a real family. Many movies portray families as either perfect or abusive, and it's very rare to see the portrayal of large good family, but with *tangible flaws* in it. I know it's because that's the whole point of the movie, but still.
I haven't read all the comments, but a lot of people have been mentioning that Mirabel didn't get a gift because she was the next in line as matriarch, and that is what happens at the end yes, but the movie is probably hiding a reason on top of that about WHY she didn't get a power like everyone else, which the director stated it was left ambiguous on purpose.
We haven't seen the others's full ceremonies, but everyone has to touch the candle before grabbing their doorknob, to probably transfer the piece of the magic given to them, after it catches this person's individual skills, and then transfer it into their own door, almost like completing the circuit to make it work.
There is a detail about mirabel's ritual however that differed from Antonio's. After Mira touched the candle, she brushed off her hands on herself, since we also later learn that Mirabel gets sweaty hands when nervous. This may very well be why her door didn't work out, she put her respective magic from the candle in her instead of her door accidentally, which explains many things such as why her mental state is so much more tied to Casita, which starts breaking down after she sings waiting for a miracle and in other instances, then everyone else's who can only influence their own doors usually, with abuela being the only exception since the candle is hers. After the candle goes out, she basically uses back the magic she had all this time to establish the new miracle.
So her wiping the hands with the magic on her not only literally made her herself the gift, like Bruno and the others say at the end, she also basically did a succession ceremony without anyone knowing it was a thing that could happen eheh
I really like this! So many people were repeating the thesis of the movie as if we should clap because they paid attention, but this is the first one I've seen that really adds something to the text to deepen it's meaning.
It would be so cool if that was actually the animators' intent all along. Either way, its such a good theory I'm adopting it now
@@ali8800 it also explains a couple of things that otherwise are a bit odd, because if the miracle didn't give her any gift on purpose because it somehow knew of the future that she would need to be giftless or because she was going to be a matriarch as well, we see that when the ceremony doesn't go as planned the candle itself goes out a little, it clearly was not planned and probably hurt the magic a bit since Mirabel has been holding a piece of it for herself and didn't make a door with it.
And if it was caused by the magic slowly losing its powers because of Abuela's not great treatment of her family, it would stand to reason that Antonio's ceremony wouldnt have worked either, if not gone even worst since the family was secretly in shambles during the movie.
@@Fannintendociccio1 Maybe the difference is by then Mirabel had begun to step up (or try to) and was close to Antonio. If Mirabel holds the next generation of the miracle/is the next matriarch then her encouraging and being there for Antonio was enough of a connection that he could get his gift. But then Mirabel couldn't help but feel a little jealous and left out (forgetting to include her in the picture would do that) thats when the cracks began showing, because the conflict and disconnect in the family reached its breaking point.
@@fightingfaerie that's a good possibility actually!! Cool idea!
The writer and director of the movie Jared Bush debunked the “wiping off the magic” theory. It’s not the reason Mirabel didn’t get a gift.
So Isabela and Dolores are both 21, Isa being a few months older I think. Then Luisa is 19; both Camilo and Mirabel are 15, Camilo being a few months older and then we are left with 5 year old Antonio
Luisa*
Yep you got it correct, idk why it’s so weird to me that Mirabel and Camilo are 15 when they for some reason gave me 17-18 vibes. They fit, especially Camilo, but like I didn’t know at first lol.
The triplets birth order is
Julieta
Pepa
and Bruno
plus him being the only boy and looking the most like Abuelo makes him "leaving: even more heartbreaking
@@Rosa-he6xb i thought the same! i definitely this the "-and that's why coffees for grownups!" threw a lot of people too
@@Rosa-he6xb same I honestly thought most of the grandchildren were young adults just living at home. I thought Mirabel was was 20 or 19
It's weird that technically Camilo does appear often in the movie, except he is constantly shapeshifted into someone else. How often does Camilo get to be "himself" instead of mimicking others?
Under pressure is so intense. I think the visuals are very purposeful, to kind of distract mirabell from the seriousness of the subject matter. Even in Luisa telling her struggles she is trying to protect her sister. You even see it when she fixes her glasses. There's a moment near the end where the rocks fall on Luisa she almost seems to be begging for help with her face, but she still shoulders the burden
Surface Pressure is Luisa's song..
Under Pressure is by David Bowie and Queen
Bruno's story is sad in the sense that everyone saw what Bruno was telling them, but they didn't truly listen, he told them what he saw, good or bad, but all they heard was the bad, its like you can get so many nice comments but the moment you get a negative one it sticks with you for a while. He didn't leave because he loved his family, but he was scared that if he stayed he would've been questioned about his vision about Mirabel so he hid himself. They wouldn't have seen the possibility that Mirabel could help they would've seen the possibility that she could hurt the family.
I'm not Colombian, but man, was I ever surprised to find how relatable this movie was to me.
1) I'm from a big family, so seeing a Disney movie's plot heavily influenced by large and multiple close-knit family dynamics is so refreshing. Even more so, seeing multi-generational ppl living in a single living space. It's so similar to my family, where everyone is basically in the same neighborhood so we're always at each other's places. There was even a time when my cousin and I lived with my grandparents and aunts in the same house.
And 2) I'm first generation born in the country I currently live from a family of refugees that were forcibly displaced bc of war. Many in the older generations are very much like the abuela in the story, so the whole aspect of expectations and the pressures the older gens put on us younger ones to live in a way to _earn_ or _prove_ our worth as proper citizens of this country is all too real.
So, I'm happy the movie actually went into this topic of generational trauma, especially with of forced displacement. I hear that there are plans to make a series out of this and hope we get it. I agree that I wanted the movie to be longer and explore more of the family and lore (tho, I understand that time constraints meant it couldn't) and I agree that I wouldn't want to have cut anyone out of the movie.
Lol "there is no war in Ba Sing Se" is exactly where my mind went when Abuela said "there is nothing wrong with the magic" over and over
Another nice hint during the family dinner with Isabela’s fiancé, between the adults the only one not drinking wine is Tía Pepa, given her power to control the weather it would be catastrophic to the whole community if she was drunk
I did not realize that, good catch!
God dang i can't even imagine what her first drunken moment was like if she ever did get into drinking at one point.
I feel like Merabel not having a power was because she was growing up to take the Grandmothers role. Abuela didnt have any powers either, and you could say that Meribels journey in the movie was to bring the family back to a functional state. Like her gift was keeping everything together. I feel like Bruno's vision was saying that she could make or break the miricale depending on her ability to remind everyone that their true gift is their life.
Also, i think the hug with Isabela was more a second step than the first. She had the connection with Luisa because it was already established, her pointing out the amount of pressure (hehe) Luisa was under, it put the healing into motion. She would never have made up with Isabela without prompting though. And when she and Abuela made up, it was the last step in healing the hurt and expectations in her family.
Edit for clarity.
I think im the vision, you can see it's actually abuela first and then changes to Isabela as their sisterly embrace will actually lead to the final true embrace.
Lol! I loved that scene with Abuela telling Pepa to calm down. Felix is the type of husband every man should strive to be. “Can’t you see I’m trying? You’re lucky it isn’t a hurricane!” That line got me, along with Felix’s yes in the middle, because of the reference to the Bruno song.
... you mean Félix? That is the name of Pepa's husband.
@@cidevant002 Whoops! Don’t know why I keep calling him Hector sometimes when I forget it’s Felix. My bad!
@@cidevant002 Still, one of my favorite scenes.
@@KopaXTani its fine Hector is his alter ego. Like hernando and jorge were brunos
@@KopaXTani it's okay, I was just like "who the fuck is Héctor?" and I saw this movie three times already so was highly confused.
i love seeing abuela’s story both at the beginning and end because of the intentional choice to make the visuals different each time despite it being the same general story. in the beginning we don’t see the machete & abuela’s reaction isn’t very emotional - the story is watered down because she’s talking to a 5 year old, but also because she’s been concealing her grief since the moment she got the miracle because she felt obligated to be the strong, stoic leader of the community so pedro’s sacrifice wouldn’t be for nothing. in the end during dos oruguitas we get the full picture because abuela lets mirabel all the way in and for the first time in 50 years she allows herself to be vulnerable in front of another person
Yes! I feel like people are really struggling to grasp how emotionally withdrawn abuela is. People with PTSD iscolate themselves as much as possible. Her finally allowing some vulnerability and opening up about the pains that made every day so agonizing for her are such a BIG DEAL.
This all kinda boils down to the fact that people tend to only see PTSD in the big moments. The over-the-top dramatic triggers that leave the person shaking, screaming, and crying. But so many people fail to see what people with PTSD deal with on a day-to-day basis. They don't understand the desire they feel to cut themselves off from everyone they know and love, the fear of depending on another person (and the risk of it being a mistake met with abuse or death that will be all the more painful), etc etc.
But having characters like abuela who really do accurately portray PTSD is a step in the right direction. I do wish the ending didn't feel so much like a "cure" to her trauma, but I also understand that there was limited time left in the movie.
You know the movie's good when the main 'criticism' of the movie is that we need more of it!
24:12 No, no, Bill, it wasn't Bruno sealing the cracks... It was Hernando, he isn't afraid of anything!
I think it's intresting how they are two groups of "this character is relatable" people for this movie : the first one is based on the personality of the character, and the second is the place of the character in the family. I've seen either "I relate to (for exemple) mirabel because I feel talentless" or "I relate to (for example) Luisa because I'm an older sibling too" and for me it's kinda a mix of the two.
I realate to Peppa a lot because I'm the "emotive one" that every family has. I have to control my emotion to maintain the family's happiness, and to "calm down". Everytime they'd tell that to Peppa and she was like "I'm trying !" I would picture some of my memories being exactly like this ! but without... the magic weather stuff
19:33 she said “arepa con queso”. Arepa 🫓 is made out of corn flour and it works a little bit like bread. We eat it as a snack or as a side in a main dish. It is pretty much one of the most iconic foods in Colombia.
I feel like if Abuelas backstory wasn't shown twice it wouldn't hit as hard. All that you learn the first time is that her husband sacrificed his self to save them, and then abuela gets the miracle. You don't see how sad it truly is, if they didn't have that scene then the connection between Abuela and Mirabel would feel incomplete and hollow.
the first time we see Abuela's story its told in a way that this is what we know what happened ,this is the story everyone in the Encanto knows ,we learn what happens from an outside POV ,like spoken histories passed down through generations. the second time in Dos Oruguitas its Abuela her self telling us her story, the moment at the riverside is actually different in the two scenes in the first telling she's sad but the second time round its more its also fear and anguish. She's lost her husband alone with 3 babies and given this miracle that saves everyone, but she never actually gets time to grieve she has an entire people looking to her. She puts on that shawl and its her cocoon but she doesn't really move from there until she's with Mirabel at the end and you understand a bit more why she is the way she is
My grandma is just like abuela. She’s a really good person who helps as many ppl as she could but every strong. In a lot of Latin communities especially the ones that live in their countries, grandma is the boss. Everybody including her brothers and sisters used to do what she said. I was spoiled and ignored at the same time.
For example you’ll get everything on your Christmas list but you’re not allowed to speak your mind or speak back. You do what you’re told immediately. And you do what’s best for the family.
With Antonio I do not think he would’ve been ostracized mainly because with animals he could’ve been like a sort of vet towards them so he could’ve help them if any pets were an injured or like any farm animals were injured or the donkeys that you constantly see getting out with Louisa instead of Louisa having to go and hold him back in he could’ve spoken to them and heard them back towards their in casing or he could’ve use the animals to create cool performances for the party that Encanto would’ve held him being able to talk to animals I can see would be pretty helpful even if it’s not directly but if there was an animal injured they would take the pet or again animal to Antonio and he would be able to help by something was wrong or you know kind of compromising with it as there’s a language barrier humans normally can’t find with animals so I think he would’ve been pretty well loved in the community instead of ostracized for that reason I’m sure they would’ve found a way for him to have been useful
I yelled Doctor Doolittle.
Luisa*
Just don't bring him near a slaughterhouse. He'll be traumatized.
@@rubenhumbertoroquesalas2273 Rightttt, at least no animals were harmed during the making of the arepas con queso
Yeah. I think in current circumstances he would be seen as not helpful cuz his gift doesn’t connect to humans. But since this is the past where they rely on animals more than our current society pretends we don’t, and they actually care about animals more, unlike our current society where we pretend they’re inferior and subhuman to not feel bad about the way humans treat them….then I think he would be very integral to life.
I saw a review of Encanto that talked about how the hug in Bruno's vision was actually meant to be Mirabel hugging Abuela, not Isabela. The image of young Abuela looks very similar in the background story to how Isabela looks in the vision, and I think it's a really interesting interpretation of his vision. Instead of the solution being a hug from Isabela, it would be a hug from the person who's looked down on Mirabel the most. Also, great review, I really enjoyed it! 🙂
also when bruno has the vision and they see the yellow butterfly, later in the movie after we see abuela's backstory theres another yellow butterfly and in that scene mirabel is looking at it before she goes and hugs abuela, i think that the vision might have meant that mirabel needed to hug isabella in order to hug abuela and save the miracle
I've seen this theory going around but it's not Young Abuela, it's Isabela. I'm a little confused why people believe this so much when the hair flip and the hairstyle give it away. I felt like a lot of people missed Bruno saying the vision was out of order.
Okay, I'm kind of in love with that theory! Could you imagine if they hadn't shown us Abuela at the beginning and then in Bruno's vision, you see Mirabel hugging this character that looks a lot like Isabella (but they omitted the hair flip). So you think she has to make peace with Isabella. But then when Dos Oruguitas plays, you see young Abuela for the first time and it all just clicks into place? Ugh, my heart.
I think the vision of them hugging was to push her to Isabela's room so they can have a bonding moment, and immediately after that is when Mirabel and Abuela have their big fight. The hug was not how she could save the magic, it set her on the path to the fight, which then caused the house to fall, which led to the apology/bonding moment with Abuela, which THEN brought them to fixing the house and saving the magic. The vision just showed her the next step.
In some behind the scenes stuff, its revealed that Isabella is intentionally designed to look like a young abuela.
The thing that the mom makes to feed Bruno is an arepa! It seems that the mom's power of healing with food motivates her to make way more food than necessary, so I guess Bruno benefits from this excess by living near the kitchen. :) Thanks for this review!
It also helps to deal with a accident prone husband that always needs a bite.
I can't relate on the cultural aspects, but as someone who has 8 aunts and uncles and over 20 cousins, I felt so seen in the dynamic of their large family. Every person is an integral part of the larger machine, even if they're not seen as much, and I feel like the writers and animators nailed that aspect of it. I do wish we could've had more time with the cousins, but like you said only if the workers were paid adequately for the time. It's a great movie even as it is.
I think as someone pointed out, there should have been a Family Madrigal reprised with the family members expressing their vulerable sides like the sisters songs. Though I saw a great theory on Tiktok about Mirabel, all the "gifted" family members touch the candle and then the doorknob. Mirabel, touched the candle then wiped her dress. Possibly getting the magic in herself, where she can amplify or mute the powers. The cracks started in the house when Mirabel was admiting that she wasn't ok without a gift. Luisa is a great example, she was saying the she felt weak but didn't fully start losing her power until after Mirabel said she was carrying too much. Isabela was amplified when Mirabel listened to her about her issues and how happy she was with the other plants she was growing. I'm hoping there will be a sequel for the movie. It's so wonderful and I want to see how everything goes.
What Maribel’s mum gives her is an Arepa con Queso. It’s a type of corn cake made of Maize dough. It can have different filling or toppings and be eaten as a snack or part of breakfast. Since making the dough from scratch takes time making a few at a time is better, so I don’t think she knew Bruno was around.
Theres a lot of deleted scenes that i found really interesting and you should definitely check out!
Theres this bit with Mirabel, the dad and the uncle doing chores (cus theyre the people in the family without gifts) and its a really fun interaction but also they kinda tackle more on the way bruno was kicked out of the family, its really interesting theres a lot of good deleted scenes that i wish were included
Dude, when Isabella was telling Mirabel to apologize I got chills and had to pause the movie for a moment to recover because I used to have someone in my life who would talk like that and belittle and shame me for things that I couldn’t control. They weren’t related to me so it was easier to get away but I got so scared for Mirabel in that moment.
Also Mirabel and Antonio talking under the bed reminded me of me and my cousin sitting under my desk and doing our homework together. Yes, UNDER my desk not at it. It got boring so we’d pretend it was a fort.
There was actually so much that reminded me of my own family and life that it’s moved up to one of my favorites.
The director mentioned that he thinks a tv-show would be a great format for exploring the family and town more. Also said that we should start sending our letters to the studio to convince them.
Quando a Dolores canta " It's like I can hear him now ", não é apenas por ele estar vivendo entre as paredes . Mas sim sobre agora ela poder enxergar a profecia dele sendo uma realidade .
Abuela was such an interesting character. I get people being mad at her, but her grief carrying on for so long makes so much sense. She sees her husband killed in front of her eyes, and at that point she has no time to grieve. She has to take care of 3 children and has no support system. So here she is clinging onto all she has left and all she is given. Her family and the house. And as her children grow up they know, no better plus Abuela is their mother so how do you stand up to your mother? How do you change the expectations when you've only known to have expectations put upon you.
Fyi, wearing black clothing is traditional to do after the passing of a significant other. (For at least a year I think? There was like this rule about how long you were supposed to wear black for) If you read any historical novels, some widows in the stories will wear only black for the rest of their lives. So the shawl is a physical representation of Abuela constantly carrying her grief around with her. And if you look at the end with the song "All of You" when you see Abuela again, she has lost the shawl, to show she's healing now and not constantly carrying that grief around anymore.
Personally, I think the thing that made me love this movie so much, is because its about "society" A.K.A. the family learning to accept the main character rather than the main character accepting yourself. To often movies tell us be yourself, but in reality the reason being yourself is so hard is because society isn't willing to open their eyes and be accepting. I related to this aspect of Mirabelle as I am adopted. And when you have lived with these aspects of what others consider "lacking" you've already come to terms with things you can't change. Mirabelle doesn't need a power or necessarily want one. The only reason she wanted one was because then she would be seen as helpful to her family. If her family saw as her as helpful without the gift, there would never be the need for the song "Waiting on a Miracle'
It’s not just her three babies - it’s the entire community that looks to her and the miracle her family received. She has to lead EVERYONE and make EVERYONE safe. It’s no wonder she’s so obsessed with “earning” the miracle - she’s terrified of what will happen if they lose it. An entire town is counting on her, starting immediately after her husband’s killed in front of her.
I could talk about this movie for hours and you basically reiterated everything I have in my mind, but one thing I don't see people talking about is the fact that when Bruno said that Mirabel and Isabela embracing would make the candle burn brighter, he was right, but it also led to the candle burning faster and going out sooner. This is obviously touched on after their house falls and Mirabel talks about needing a new foundation and that "stars don't shine, they burn," but it's not talked about how, in trying to reach out to her sister, Mirabel did unintentionally put the candle out. It's one of the situations where things get worse before they get better, because Mirabel obviously realizes that they "need a new foundation" that will survive the family showing affection (the candle burned too fast when Isabela gave Mirabel a hug, imagine if the family showed even more love to one another?).
I also like how Bruno's vision changing from a cracked house to a repaired one wasn't uncertain, it was just showing the house in two different states that actually did exist in the movie. Mirabel's actions do lead to the house cracking and falling apart, but she was also the one to realize what needed to happen to make it stronger.
3 Things:
1. I don't normally watch breakdowns that down invove the initial reaction because of personal preference, but this was everything. Every moment engaging and intriguing. Every thought so deep and fun! Thank you for putting in the work for this video!
2. More on Isa's marriage and how you mentioned a lot of the story happened in the subtleties, it is so interesting to rewatch the movie and listen to abuela's off-screen dialogue about the marriage; you can see the pressure that was placed on it. "This will be so good for the encanto" and such...
3. I saw a tiktok today about Mirabel learning about abuela's experience that really helped me appreciate the opening scene more. The tiktoker pointed out the very subtle difference of the sad look vs. the utter distraught grief on abuela's face as Pedro sacrifices himself. I also wished that there could have been more of a revelatory moment there at the end, but after watching that tiktok I was made to see how useful that scene was to show how abuela repressed and censored her story, as well as her grief, for the family.
Thank you again for such a great video!
I think that dolores said that on the dinner, maybe because she had feelings for him. Remeber the Bruno song? She sings that the Man of her dreams would be betrothed to another, It was isabela's fiancé...
Assuming the Encanto community is very much probably rural, Antonio's gift would be very useful for dealing with livestock in general, protecting the village from dangerous animals (and also outsiders, as he's best friend is literally a jaguar) and, as said by someone else, vet work.
Antonio and his animals are with Mirabel almost the entire time. Antonio knew everything that was going on w her, just like Deloris knowing everyone’s secrets and always listening in.
It feels illegal to be this early
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The way I see it, Alma's flashback at the start of the movie was more simplified than Dos Oruguitas because of her own arc about having to accept that the family isn't perfect. In the first flashback she omited so much of the trauma and grief because she considered those to be "imperfect" parts of her so she shut them off, kind of showing that she was also being hurt by her actions without realising it
There is an entire theory that Mirabel didn’t get a gift, because the house chose her to be the next keeper of the candle after Abuela, because Abuela doesn’t have a gift either, just that she kind of looks after the magic because her misery is what started it x and now it’s Mirabels turn to keep it going, yknow? To keep it all alive x
Only those with long burning big trauma keeps the flame lmao
One of my favorite head canons about this movie is that mirabel does have a gift, but her gift is in tearing down walls. Abuela doesn’t really have a gift either except being the keeper of the candle, but if her gift if putting up walls (manifested in raising the mountain to protect against the invaders, raising casita to protect her family, and manifesting the doors to compartmentalize her family and their gifts) then mirabel’s gift is tearing down those walls (manifested by tearing down the door she would have received, breaking the mountain, tearing down casita even unintentionally) and tearing down the emotional walls of her family.
Yeah that's Colombia. Bright colors full of beauty and music but with a lot of pain and collective trauma because of our history but we are joyful and kind and we try our best.
Finally!! Someone who supports my girl Dolores!
She's such an interesting character and I think people overlook her. Dolores and Pepa are my favorites and I think they both have a very similar relationship with their power because neither of them can turn it off and have to control them way more than the others in order to be useful for the community.
Can you imagine how terrible must be to feel like even your own voice is too loud for your ears? Or that you have to feel certain emotion on certain degree just so you don't bother anyone else?
My headcannon is that Dolores and Bruno are walls besties. She gives him food and he makes plotlines for his telenovelas that he knows she would enjoy.
No the mom didn't know Bruno was in the walls. Mom was by the sounds of things the only one to never ask Bruno for a reading, she clearly cared about and loved Bruno more then everyone else, and at the end when she sees Bruno she is the one who covers her mouth like one would do when you haven't seen a lost loved one in years. As for making extra food she always needs extra to heal someone, mostly bee sting husband, and while 1 went to meribell 1 went to the husband, so the last one was the one Bruno had. The mouse stole it for him.
Some things I noticed:
At breakfast Abulea picked out the blue flower out of Isabella's hair leaving the other pink flowers that popped up.
Delores was probably bursting to share the secret and ruin the proposal because of her feelings for Mariano
Abulea donned the black shawl of grief after the second retelling of the miracle and let it go when they returned from the river
Something that caught my attention was that the anxious aunt & her family constantly wear yellow b/c it's is seen as a happy color and they want to help the aunt with her anxiety.
If I had Dolores' abilities, I'd go INSANE - how does she stand it all day?! I was worried for her throughout the entire movie, horrified as the implications of her gift ran through my mind. No wonder she's always whispering...
What also caught my notice was Isabel during the final minutes of "We Don't Talk About Bruno" - she looked absolutely MISERABLE, and it reminded me of all the subtle uncomfortable expressions she wore earlier in the movie whenever the marriage was brought up.
Love the analysis on Bruno - being seen as a reflectiom on an unhealthy, self-destructive choice that Mirabel could have chosen instead of stciking it out and confronting the truth.
Overall - love the movie and wanted to see more.
This movie really broke me when I first saw it because I recognized so much from it in my own family. Not from a cultural stance, since I'm German, but from the family dynamics, which also made me realize how universal this is and how much it happens around the world.
I love my family and I know that everyone means well, yet no-one asks for help or wants to really talk about the problems. Just recently I think we had the first direct conversation about real issues in the family and it made me see how much everyone is struggling, including my grandparents and my aunt, who always seem to be so in control. I believe it especially shocked my mom, who sometimes really antagonises her mother, to hear my grandma admit having deep running problems and issues she simply never lets people know about. And to hear both my grandma and aunt talk about these things they were struggling with in their life and marriage made me realize how little I really knew about them, although they were around me all my life.
This movie made me want to try being more open and work on my communication with my family, although it's a difficult and frustrating process.
That being said, I loved your review and interpretation on this movie, because it gave a fresh perspective and made the movie even more special to me. You pointed out a bunch of things I didn't pick up on, and your theories and interpretations were so well thought-out and interesting that they gave me a lot to think about.
I've been a fan and a subscriber of yours for a while, yet every video you amaze me with your deep thoughts and interesting perspectives. Please continue being you and being wonderful, and I look forward to seeing more from you in the future. Have a great day :)
I feel like Camilo's thoughts were barely touched on because the questions around his power become big, philosophical ones. Being able to turn into someone else must be wild mentally, especially at such a young age (imagine being 8 and transforming into an adult). Getting into his perspective would be really difficult, so they left him as comedic background.
Isabela is my favorite character, partly because I relate to her so much
It was never my parents or family in general putting pressure on me though
I always was smart and did good at school, so I would go to advanced classes
I struggled so hard with them but I kept going and forced myself to do more,
to participate in competitions and talent shows, ect. I always just made myself
try to be better so I could feel worthy and I just tried to act "perfect" in any way
that whenever I make a mistake it almost feels, relieving? Comforting?
I guess I also kinda relate to Luisa to, but its so hard to find anyone ever
talking about "perfect" people having problems-
my theory is that each family member represents different trauma response models. pepa is freeze she feels she needs to hide and repress her emotions to keep the peace, julieta is fawn she fixes everything, and bruno is flight he chooses to leave when he sees the problem. then each kid shows the ways that having a parent living with that kind of trauma can affect them and also fall into the 3 models. pepa's anxiety leads her to a partner who's soothing and comforting (love felix) and also leads dolores to be overvigilant so she is never caught off guard by her mother's volatile emotions, she's also freeze as she keeps most of the things she hears to herself, and camilo's very people pleasing and mirrors those around him but especially his dad when his mother is having a panic episode, he's fawn, and antonio's gift with animals represents escapism when leaving isn't or doesn't feel like an option, he's flight. julieta's need to fix everyone and everything lead her to find the person who she felt needed her most and made her feel the most appreciated. luisa is the oldest sister/cousin which means and the pressure and expectations for her to be the strong helpful one comes both from abuela as the matriarch and her mother, she's fawn, isabela was abuela's favorite and she became a perfectionist and also put up a huge mask around everyone to hide her insecurities, she's freeze, and mirabel obviously is the one who breaks the cycle but we could argue that the flight response more often leads people to a healing journey than the other responses so she could still fit that description. but either way I think it's a very interesting perspective to watch the movie with.
I absolutely love your perspective!!! I never realized that Abuela being so focused on the miracle could have been survives’ guilt! And it makes so much more sense in that light.
Also, while watching the movie I didn’t think I connected to any of the characters until you talked about Bruno. That made me realize I was the Bruno of my family. I’m the only girl out of my parents kids, I’m not athletic, I prefer to be alone, I don’t have friends, I’m not popular, and so many things I don’t share with my brothers. And that shit ate me up when I was younger. I was also the only one that showed my emotions more which made me think I was the only one with issues. My version of getting away from my family was literally trying to kill myself because I thought I could have been the issue. Obviously I never succeeded and I’m glad. My family ended up breaking apart even more but I feel like we’re better now then we were back then.
Oh wow Bill. I don't think you're overthinking the whole thing about the string caught on the thorn being the thing to lead abuela to Mirabel. When you showed the pics, I just noticed that the pink string that was on the thorn is the exact same pink as the butterfly made of string on Mirabel's blouse. Her abuela literally had to follow Mirabel's butterfly to find her just like Bruno's prophecy showed them needing to follow the butterful.
Quando a Dolores canta " You talk so loud " e diz que admira isso no Mariano, ela está dizendo que admira o fato dele ser sincero e não ter segredos, já que pra ela, quando alguém sussurra, a pessoa demostra que tem segredos a esconder .
I really appreciated hearing your thoughts on Encanto. I thought your comment about Antonio becoming like Bruno and Mirabel was interesting. To me, Abuela’s comment about finding a use for his gift was her customary reaction to a new gift. Luisa and Julieta are the only two whose gifts have an obvious, immediate, practical use. Growing flowers? Being able to hear everything? Emotional weather control? Shape shifting? Definitely interesting gifts, but how they are used to help the community has a feeling of forcing a square peg into a round hole. I feel like Camilo would be the perfect case study. He shapeshifts into a tired mother to babysit. That is so extra! It’s clear he has to do it because that’s what his gift can do. From Antonio, “the animal guy” getting the gift to understand and talk to animals, it’s clear their gifts are reflections of their natures/personalities/interests. I really want to know more about what the characters were like before they got their gifts because it’s just so clear their gifts weren’t meant to be utilitarian but expressions of the person. With Abuela, her gift is literally protecting her family. The mountains to keep out those who would attack them and then the house itself. Her desire to protect them, after literally witnessing the murder of her husband, manifested in her gift. She became so obsessed she literally couldn’t see her family for the gift they are, and I think that was a large part of why the miracle was dying. Her gift was to protect her family but the discord and unhappiness just proved that she was twisting her gift to be the harm, and so she lost her gift for herself and her family.
I was so confused about how Mirabel reacted to Casita at the end. They gave the house so much personality but didn't seem to mourn Casita when the house crumbled. Like the Casita did so much on a regular basis to help out it felt like a friend and at the end when Casita came back to life Mirabel was just like hello vs like Casita your back!
there's a theory that says mirabelle didn't get a gift because she became the new candle, and because the candle is always just there, she is just there too, so she didn't get superpowers, that is also why casita regains life again after rebuilding, because the embodyment of the miracle(mirabelle) is back
Another sad thing to note is the use of colours each side of the family had their colours Juleita and her family wore cool colours, blues and purples, whilst Pepas side wore warm colours, oranges and yellows. Alma wears a red purple and Pedro wore Yellow (a lot easier to see in the concept art), Bruno is the only one with Green as their main colour which ties not only with Green being a colour of precognitive abilities but a colour of villains or those who think of themselves a villain within Disney.
0:33 Genuinely, I love your reaction videos BECAUSE of how much you analyze things! I never feel like you're overanalyzing or overthinking; you always validate thoughts I've had or bring new perspectives that I hadn't considered.
As a Latina who is a US citizen child of two immigrant parents, I think this movie perfectly encapsulates the weird balancing act of wanting to stand up for your own interests and be who you truly are but also wanting to be exactly what your parents expect from you because you know what they sacrificed to get you where you are and you feel like you owe them this perfect, successful child. For me, especially, it made me very unable to cope with failure and very ashamed to come to my parents when I made a mistake. I can see where maybe the children feel the need to please Abuela because they feel they owe it to her for leading them to the magic in the first place and I empathized with that greatly.
dad and uncle DID get a moment with mirabel, the three of them bonding about not having gifts in a deleted scene (you can look up on youtube, it's been shared)! but with how the scene was storyboarded/written, i understand why it was cut for smoother narrative
Could you maybe link the scene or share the name? I'm looking it up but I can't seem to find it!