I have to mention how proud I am that Disney actually got the color tone of Hispanic families right. I saw light, dark, and tan. It was great representation.
Especially with them all being in the same family!! My siblings and I are all very different skin tones, and it was lovely to see that diversity in one household just like my own.
Same here! We are venezolanos, my father is dark, not black but has a very tanned skin. My little sister is the same tone or even a bit darker than my father. My mom has whiter skin, and I'm more pale than her Half of my whole family, curly dark hair The other half, straight hair and light eye colors!
Bruno resembles his father. He's selfless, loves his family enough to separate himself from them and 'sacrifice' himself if that means that his family would be happy. Just like his father did.
I also like how out of all of her family members, Mirabel looks the most like her mother and Bruno, two of the people in her family, who, despite the fact that they both have gifts, still treat Mirabel like an equal, and someone who is just as special as everyone else.
It really shows the connection of him and his father. Just another thing, I can see why they showed him as bad, because no one really knew as much as abuela did about the father. In we don't talk about bruno, one of Dolores lyrics is "Always left abuela and the family fumbling" somewhat how abuela's husband sacrificed himself and ditched for abuela and the 3 children with her. Also they look similar too.
@@lumisherbert5682 it make sense that mirabel is most like pepa, bruno and julieta. Pepa-Emotional, Bruno-Selfless, Julieta-caring. All qualities given with Mirabel
According to the writer/director, Bruno actually made the vision ritual up himself. He *could* have visions without it, but he found them so stressful and taxing that he created the ritual to help focus and emotionally prepare himself. It became something of a crutch for him, and added to his superstitious nature, the ritual is now necessary in his mind.
The only thing necessary would be the sand, since the other madrigals use the elements of nature to use their gifts, it is also necessary, of course, so that others can see their visions and not only bruno
@@angelpaco3487 Exactly--he needs the sand to create that green glass stuff; both the sand and the glass can be used to share the imagery of the vision with someone else. I expect he does that with bigger visions, life changing events...whereas for smaller stuff he'd just think ahead and tell the person out loud. I can't imagine he'd go through all the trouble of climbing his big tower and everything just to tell the priest he'd go bald, for instance, and I doubt anyone in town would want to wait that long for a minor vision.
Its actually very subtle: her gift is the same as Abuela Alma's. She's connected to the house itself. That's why she can communicate with it, and why the house doesn't come back alive until SHE puts the doorknob in. Or, in other words, her door was the house's FRONT door! Note: I made this comment before I heard her say the same thing. But now it's basically confirmed!
Yeah. The reason she didn't get a gift at her 5th birthday. Is because she will inherit Abuelas gift when she passes and be the one that will keep the family together. I like this explanation. It is subtle but a good ending. :)
Nope it was the family's plus the movie is on Maribel's pov so it's normal to not see the others interact with the heart, I like to imagine that the Encanto fanbase most of them is forcing Maribel to have a gift/power
I think there's also another layer to it too--she's not just attuned to the house as in the physical building; she's attuned to the House as in the entire family. Mirabel spends her hero's journey checking in with and learning about the actual needs of her family members that are going neglected because Abuela's approach to everything is still being informed by her grief and trauma. Her gift is seeing what's wrong--the metaphorical cracks in the family, including Abuela--and helping patch them up. She just doesn't need magic to do it.
It's not that she was hugging abuela in the vision. The vision showed Maribel hugging Isabela because it was a necessary step. That hug was the catalyst for Mirabel to realize what the real problem was-the fact that they were all so pressured to use their gifts the "proper" way and be who abuela/the community needed them to be, that they weren't being their true selves and it was breaking them apart. It started fixing itself when Mirabel helped Isabela finally let go of the pressure to be perfect, and just create the things SHE wanted to create, for once. It made Isabela happy, and it strengthened their bond, and the candle, all at once. Its subtle, but it happens with Pepa, too. The whole movie, Abuela keeps chastising her that "she's thundering" or that she's raining on them, basically reminding her to "keep her gift in check". But then at the end, Bruno tells her to "let it rain, let it snow, let it go" and after that you see her dancing in the rain, no longer struggling to repress her gift, and embracing it instead.
I also like the idea that who she was hugging in the vision is Abuela as a young woman. She looked a lot like Isabela when she was younger and needed to be embraced. Yes, hugging Isabela was a catalyst for everything that happened after, but also Abuela's past self needed healing as well.
Long ago, I came across a theory on why Casita fell to pieces that ties into your comment quite nicely. According to the person who posted, the house's magic existed because their was a strong sense of harmonious balance within the family. But the moment Mirabel started doubting her worth, Casita's magic started to crack. As the movie went on, Alma kept putting too much importance on her family's gifts; which in turn placed LOADS of pressure on the children (as shown through Luisa.) The final nail in the coffin came when Alma kept stubbornly insisting that it was Mirabel's fault things were going wrong
But we're also assuming that Bruno's vision HAD to give a solution to the problem. It didn't. Bruno's visions tell the future, they don't necessarily answer questions. So if she was shown the hug with Isabella it was not something she needed to do, but something that was just going to happen. Which it did.
I'm Colombian, and this movie felt like a beautiful representation of the diversity or my country. Abuela's story was so touching to me because it's based on real violence a lot of families have experienced here.
I live in Colombia, this movie got so many things right but non-Colombians missed the significance of the Yellow butterfly. In One hundred Years of Solitude which was written in the 60's and is one of the most important pieces of literature in Colombia the yellow butterfly signifies infinite love and hope. With all the cultural references in the movie there is no way the writers do not know this. The original script was meant to take place over one hundred years as a nod to Gabriel Garcia Marquez's book, this is a man who won the Nobel prize for literature. And specifically wrote magical realism which is how Disney categorised this movie. There are over 3,400 different butterflies in Colombia of all different colours and shades. So the choosing of this from this culture and from this country is not a mistake. Mirabel heals the home by having infinite love for her family and hope for the future. This is what allows her to forgive her Grandmother, the house knows this from the beginning she is the heart of the family, the heart of the home, she does not get a door at the beginning because the house knows the home is breaking. But she has the best relationship with the house through out. I enjoyed your reaction.
I really liked how when Isabela finally admitted she didn't wanted to marry that guy she created a cactus. It's like the completely opposite of what she's has been doing her whole life. Flowers are simetrical, pretty, they smell nice. Her powers reflected the way she behaved and when she finally broke free she learned that her powers are about creating any type of plant (which, may I say, it's much cooler than just flowers).
It's even cooler when you look back earlier on and realize something. Bruno's vision for Isabela: "He told me that the life of my dreams would be promised and someday be mine. He told me that my powers would grow like the grapes that thrive on the vine." She clearly was not living the life she dreamed of, pressure of perfection and marrying a man she didn't want to for the family's sake despite knowing Dolores likes him. Her smile following the surprise of hearing he wants 5 kids there looks forced. It was after the proposal went horribly wrong and she lashed out admitting she never wanted to marry him that her powers finally "grew" as she realized she could make more than just pretty flowers. That she didn't have to make things perfect. That SHE didn't have to be perfect, the way her family and the community has become to expect. She just had to be herself. Bruno's vision there actually seems like it had been predicting that event, but without context of the situation that led to it.
@@sterthester736 Abuela forced her into the role of the perfect golden girl. Always only pretty pink flowers. Never being able to break free or to experience. When the flowers grow on her head out of shock, Abuela picks out the one white flower, because she doesn’t allow a bit of imperfection on her.
To me, its a coming out song just like Let it Go. She's literally covered In a rainbow by the end, shuts down her mariage to the town's hunk and grows rainbow plants.. it doesn't get more obvious without adding a same sex love interest.
I love how you realised Dolores was in love with Mariano right away. Most people seem to miss that, I know I did. In hindsight it's pretty clear but on the first watch it's subtle (makes rewatching it sooo worth it, plus the songs of course!!)
The saddest part about abuela's backstory is that is very common to colombian families to be displaced because of war, especially in rural zones. We're the number 1 country with people suffering forced displacement from their hometowns (almost 8.3 MILLION people last year), so this movie really hit way too close to my heart as a colombian woman. Also, i think the movie is about the family trauma left by this forced displacement, and to see how at the end of it that "trauma chain" is finally broken it's beautiful and feels so comforting.
I assume that Casita is actually Abuelo's spirit. And his wish for the family to stay together. But when the family started to fall apart- NOT starting with Mirabel, but actually with Bruno. Abuelo decided to test the family by not giving Mirabel a gift. The more divided they are, the more it saddens Abuelo and they lose their gifts.
I think its Mirabels fault she didn't get a gift, when she touched the candle before she touched the door she wiped her hands on her dress. I think the magic went into her, Then she touched the candle and well, didnt get a gift
@me1me1me1 there's a theory that actually makes sense I heard, it's when mirabel touched the candle, before she touched her door she wiped her hands on her dress (and I think the magic went into her instead of the door) the when she touched the door it didn't have magic so it faded away
@@abbij2009 I heard that one of the producers said that it was an interesting theory but she actually just gets sweaty hands when she’s nervous which actually perfectly matches her character LMAO
1. The colorful river that they show us in the movie is a real river, is called Caño Cristales. It is known as the most beautiful river in the world. 2. In Luisa's song, when the second verse begins, Luisa and Mirabel fall into a coffee grinder 3. The plates where Bruno's visions are seen, are emerald. Colombia is the largest exporter of emerald in the world. 4. All the gifts of the family represent something Colombian. Pepa represents the country's varied and rare climate. Camilo the variety of races and ethnic groups of the country. Dolores gossip. Antonio biodiversity. Isabela the flora. Juliet the gastronomy. Luisa the work of the Colombian, could we say (? 5. All the clothes you see in the movie, including hats, are cultural from all over the country. That is why it is disrespectful to us that Disney sells it. 6. Candles represent a lot in our culture, in fact we have a day dedicated to lighting candles. Hence why the candles in the movie. 7.The palma de Cera that is mentioned in Isabela's song, and seen throughout the town, is the national tree of Colombia, and is the largest type of palm in the world. 8. The yellow butterflies represent one of the novels by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a Colombian literature Nobel Prize winner. 9. Violence in Colombia is a very big issue, which continues to be experienced to this day. In the grandmother's past we can see Forced Displacement. Colombia is the country with the most internally displaced people in the world.
You are SO right. Mirabel's door was the front door, which is why her first door ceremony didn't work. Her gift is to be the heart of the family, and eventually the head of the community like Abuela. Every door had the character in the middle etched more brightly, with the depiction of their power around them in lighter etching. The new front door has Mirabel in the center in brighter etching, and her family around her more lightly, confirming that this was meant to be her door all along, and her room is the whole Casita. I also watched on Christmas Eve, with my family. ❤️ And I truly loved Luisa's song as well. And my best friend is Filipino, so when you referred to Isabella as Mirabel's "Ate" it made me smile
Question - why did a door appear at all - if they house didn't intend given her a gift? I also don't understand why the house didn't accommodate Bruno better if it assist to look after the family, the house should have moved to accommodate Bruno in the walls. I was really saddened when Mirabel said she was living in the nursery all the time after no getting a room.
@@claireevelyn3379 My assumption is that the door appeared at all to determine Mirabel's Gift. Each gift of the family members is connected to something they are passionate about. Antonio, the animal lover, literally becomes the king of animals as he touches his door. The same thing happened with Mirabel. The door appeared because of a family member reaching the required age for their gift. When Mirabel touched the door, her passion for her family came through, together with her gift of being the miracle of the family that holds them together. In other words becoming the new candle, which is supposed to fix the family and which is why the actual candle fades as she touches her door. Her door then disappeares because her actual door is supposed to be the front door, the heart of the home of her family. I'm guessing after Abuela passes away, her room will shift into one that matches Mirabel only for herself, like the other doors and she will become the new head of the family. So in conclusion, the door appeared to "scan" her gift and then disappeared because she became the miracle, replaced the candle and her magic of being the glue in the family going beyond an individual power like the rest. Besides, this could be a stretch, so I rather see is just as a Headcanon of mine.. but the nursery in which she was living is a room that could be connected with something healing or comfort through love, right? I think that may be another connection to Mirabel literally healing the family and learning that they are all longing for love without any pressure in different ways.
The reconciliation scene made me cry. It's great to see someone who is old, proud and made sacrifices own up to their mistakes to someone they're supposed to be respected by, to someone who they had previously blamed for the things that went wrong. I don't see older people take responsibility often, especially in family.
I think the creators have said that Bruno doesn’t need to perform that little ritual in order to use his powers, but he does it as a way of calming himself down and focusing.
Everyone who has a soul was crying on this movie. I am so happy, that they did not play in cheesy animals side kicks, goofy actions, and they did not insulted intelligence of a child and adult. This movie has so much cathartic and healing properties, and I know that it will be well remembered for the deep respect for the audience. Great, memorable characters, true positive message, perfect animation,great story, songs that reveal truth. This is pure gold. Pure miracle.
Truth I haven’t seen a Disney movie that emotionally ripped my heart out in a long time. I do believe it’s healing a lot of people and bringing up the issue of family trauma and dynamics. Plus the representation is awesome. once you know everything it makes repeat viewings that much better. Plus omfg Every song is perfection. No skippable ones At All!
An interesting thing I just noticed during your reaction here... Luisa talks about how she felt weak when Mirabel first saw the cracks, and I wondered if that applied to the other family members too, even though no one else mentioned it... Pepa didn't have a cloud. She was visibly concerned by Mirabel saying the house was in danger, but she didn't have a cloud.
YES, and I love how they show it in a more subdued way in the beginning of the story because she's sugar coating the story to young Mirabel and then when Mirabel is older, they show the real pain her Abuela felt when she lost her husband. gets me every time
@@saraosorio553 imagine how Abuela change the story to euphemisms when she needs to tell it to her children and grandchildren what happened to Abuelo. That would be very painful 😶🙃
What happened to Alma and her housband was raids due to violence, guerrilla occupation to be precise which is a real problem that happened and still happens to rural communities here in Colombia, we call it Desplazamiento. Because yeah, Abuela's husband wasnt taken *He was killed in cold blood* So yeah, it really hits close to a lot of latinos, Colombians specially
@@FroBoy696 I did not cry during the whole movie, but when I saw that scene I burst into tears because as a Colombian I know that it was not just an emotional scene, it is something that happens in real life in Colombia
Let's not generalize, because it isn't just guerrillas. Paramilitary forces have done the same and are far more violent. We need to acknowledge that. However, this movie takes place in the 1950s, which means Alma's story happens in the early 1900s, so what is depicted is not guerrilla occupation, is the Thousand Days War.
9:31 I don't know how they made the house so cute, but in the scene where it really breaks I loved how hard it was trying to keep the family safe from its own falling pieces. That yanked my heart strings more than the actual plot.
This has been playing on repeat in my house since it dropped lol. So excited to see your reaction...PS love the outfit surprised you didn't know it was a musical its by Lin Manuel Miranda the king of musicals
I’ve watched it 4 times Once at the movie theater with my sis and my mom The next day again at the movie theater but with my friends Then in my aunts house with my aunt Then in my aunts house with my other friend at 3:00 am
"Only the ones with gifts" Except, the husbands are in it. The thing about this moment is... while it sucks they didn't notice she wasn't in it right away, no one told her she couldn't be in the picture. Abuela said "everyone gather round!" And she didn't move. So, on the one hand, she kinda isolated herself there... but on the other... all that negative talk and patronization she's been dealing with since she didn't get a door must be REALLY internalized for her to assume she's not welcome in the picture, even though the uncles who don't have powers are in it.
She's also been dealing with the family her whole life though, so it's not out of the question that either she was told not to join once before, or that she in the past didn't join bc she felt outcast, only to have it confirmed when nobody ever told her to come get in the picture. It can't ALL be her internalization, because nobody else in the family seems to notice or even care that she's not in it.
I love that theory. I always thought that the husband's were in the picture even tho they didn't have magic is because they're not blood, so no one expects them to have gifts so that was ok. Mirabel was a born Madrigal with no gift so it was a conflict of Abuela's perfect image
her father and uncle don't have powers, but they were never expected to have powers, the dynamic between the Madrigals revolves around what can you do and how can you help, everything they needed to do for the family they were expected to do without powers and that's why they have their place, they are accepted. Mirabel is considered a failure because she was supposed to have gifts but she didn't and although they didn't told her not to be in the picture nobody notice that she wasn't
Nah, this is placing the blame on Mirabel. Her family still at no point pause to make sure she was in it, not only that not a single one of them noticed she wasn't at the party. They wanted her out of the way.
I noticed how she just stands there and never intended herself to get a picture with her family but surely enough, she was almost like an outcast like bruno does that explains why mirabel have similarities towards bruno are kinda obvious that the madrigals realized what they did but they still continued it and moved on to they're next victim Mirabel im glad they changed afterwards to the movie and decided to move on to they're actions and just live a normal life like they should be
Even though I'm not Columbian, I *am* Filipina, and I think a lot of the themes in Encanto translate so well in our culture - especially putting your family's needs above your own, the pressure to keep up a positive public façade, how intergenerational trauma can be passed down when we don't process loss and grief, etc. I bawled during "Dos Oruguitas" 😅 What a beautiful movie.
I hope Dolores can turn her hearing off if she wants, or at the very least that her room is some kind of super quiet sound-proofed sanctuary or something. Because, well....she lives in a house with 2 married couples, a teenage boy, and one very lonely middle-aged man who's never been married and has been isolated for 10 years.
When Mirabel lost her gift she didn’t lose the magic, she stored it inside of her very soul until it was time to wake up the new casita at the end of the movie. It was destiny.
I'm from Colombia I was soooo happy to see an ABUNDANCE of skin tones, hair textures, cultural clothing, etc. The animation blew me away and the story is just so beautiful it immediately became my comfort film.
But unlike most of the others, Mirabel doesn't blame Bruno for the vision even though she hates it. She's upset, but it's about Bruno assuming this will be easy because hey go hug your sister, not about having to hug her sister. Bruno being Bruno, of course, misunderstands. I love this movie so much for how real it feels, despite the magic.
I love the fact that EVERY time I watch a reaction video to this movie I see something new! Like in the picture Camilo is low on the ground to put his arm around Antonio, that mixed with his concern about how Antonio will feel about losing his powers, he must really adore his little brother. Or the scene after that where Pepa is walking past with a cloud and she eats something and it makes her cloud go away, so she had a snack amd it made her feel better lol. That's so adorable, I'm usually distracted by Agustin being robbed by Antionas minions lol. The way he has his animals running rampant all over the place the whole movie youd think he was far more mischievous than Camilo's douting ass ever was lol
I feel like Surface Pressure should always end with that hug lol, like even if it's a reaction to the song lol, cuz Luisa always needs that lol. But I love the fact that after Mirabel gives her a hug and Luisa is vulnerable with her she presses her face into Maribel's for more comfort. That combined with Luisa basically choke holding Mirabel in the family photo makes me think their pretty close and we barely got to see any of that. I feel like Encanto is a perfect little film on it's own, but a series would have so much potential!
I feel so bad for Isabela because Abuela was living vicariously through her. Isabela is the one who looks most like her, and Abuela wanted her and her life to be perfect. Mariano also looks very similar to Abuelo (I forgot his name lol) , which is probably why she wanted her to marry him. I think she was trying to recreate Isabela’s life how she wanted hers to end up.
Yeah as much as i do believe Abuela did want what she believed was best for Isabella I do believe she was also living through Isabella since it doesnt seem like she was ever open to hearing whay Isabella wanted
For the people saying it was actually Isabela in the vision, I wanna just share my thought on it. I saw it as being both Isabela and Abuela. In the beginning of the vision it looks more like Abuela to me, but then morphs into Isabela. And Mirabel had to talk with and understand them both, and they both needed to realize what they were doing wasn't true to themselves or the family. The two hugs have Mirabel in the same pose, but the person she's hugging is the one changing variable, just like the vision.
It's not that Mirabel didn't get a gift, it's because Casita chose her to be the next head of the family. Abuela Alma was able to summon the magic through immense and intense fear and loss and desire to protect. The magic appeared from how strongly she felt that. But over time, abuela started to lose sight of what was important. So the cracks had been appearing for years. But pay attention, all the kids going to their doors had an idea in mind of what they wanted to have for a gift. Mirabel only had one thing in mind. She wanted to make her family proud because she loved her family so intensely. So Casita didn't give her a gift because her love was going to power the magic. Her passion for her family shows once she is older. She makes sure to be skilled in so many things, yet makes no big deal out of it. She sews all her own clothes, puts intricate details in them. She crafts all the gifts for the family, she is a literal parcor champ, plays the accordion perfectly, dances beautifully, can sing. She is literally the actual gifted child in a family. She does all that without magic. And she is the first one up every day to get the table and everything ready for her family. She is literally the most dedicated member of the Madrigals. And she is literally the only one who could openly converse back and forth with Casita. But the family all act as if she just gets in the way. Even her mother who clearly lives and supports her doesn't really acknowledge all the great and talented things Mirabel does. And easily believes she is making things up when she shows zero evidence of doing so prior. And then look at the end of the movie, who is at the forefront on the door, it's Mirabel. I imagine that she now will have her own door and everything in the house, similar to how abuela has a door, but no actual gift. But the only reason that Casita was able to come back to life was because Mirabel powered it back with the love she has for her family.
In the encanto book, the family made Mirabel her own door designed with things that represented each of the family. Like flowers for isa, the candle for abuela, the sun for pepa, animals for antonio, etc.
I love this explanation, I basically took it the same way. That mirabels gift is the house and the family. She’s basically the glue that holds everything together. That’s why she’s in the front of the house in Bruno’s vision and when he was moving the vision back in forth the house was cracked and then right back whole again. But when people saw his vision they just assumed mirabel is the reason for the house being cracked but in actuality the family holding in so much emotion is the reason the house was cracked and mirabel is the one that figured out how to piece everything back together. Bruno’s vision was basically telling him that the house is falling apart and only mirabel has the gift to figure out how to fix it. That’s why towards the end abuela says to mirabel something along the lines of “I asked my Pedro for help and I didn’t realize he sent me you”
Love, love, LOVE your analysis. Mirabel as the actual glue that bonds her family together. I love those glimpses that show how much effort she puts into being there for others, into being useful, into having so many talents. (Plus, as a fellow artisan, I just loved seeing her sewing machine and the embroidery and her plush making skills!)
That shows how she literally has conversations with everyone in the family. Unlike the grandma. She needed to start listening to everyone and learning from them.
It was amazing to see my family, my people being represented in a Disney film. Coming from a Hispanic, they didn’t stereotype, they really tried to get it right, huge respect on that one.
@@MonicaCatapusan there's actually a theory that's pretty mich accepted as fact that mirabel didn't get a gift because she's supposed to be Alma's successor. This especially makes sense with the front door at the end where it shows the whole family but Mirabel is front and center. And the door started to glow when she put the doorknob in. Plus she's the only one besides Alma to talk to the house and have it react according to her moods and commands.
Isabela’s storyline hit the hardest for me and i honestly wish they would’ve delved into it more! she’s the eldest daughter & grandchild and she clearly looks the most like abuela so her entire life abuela has been trying to live vicariously through her wanting isa to have the ~perfect~ life abuela wasn’t able to! even down to the detail of mariano looking similar to abuelo pedro and abuela being so eager for the marriage proposal and what it will do for the family when isa clearly doesn’t want it
I've been thinking Luisa is the eldest, her song has a lyric that mentions, "give it to your sister, your sister's older" which tells me that she's probably the eldest of the third generation and has probably heard the adults say that A LOT.
@@KyliaSkydancer Luisa is 19 while Isabela & Dolores are both 22 with Isa being the eldest by a few months! Luisa is older than Mirabel so the line still makes sense especially because since Mirabel doesn’t have a gift Luisa has probably spent the last 10 years overcompensating to make up for that
This movie is so beautiful! The characters and songs and everything about it is so so so so good. I've watched Encanto so many times already, I can't get enough of it haha
The fact that most people thought when the house was collapsing they were like OHNOO bruno still in there.he putted his bucket on his head and busted out of the the wall.that was one of my favorite parts it was surprising and funny to me.bruno and luisa.
I hope so! I think a series where the grandmother slowly develops to become more like Mirabel, Alma prepares Mirabel to take over her position as matriarch (and the stress Mirabel will have to go through, since leadership will always be difficult), and stories about the difficulties other family members go thru as they learn more about themselves since they previously had to suppress themselves would be so cool!
Just for reference, they get their gifts when they are 5 years old. The ages of all the characters are: Abuela is 75, Julieta, Pepa, Bruno, Agustin, and Felix are all 50, Isabela and Dolores are 22, Luisa is 19, Camilo and Mirabel are 15, and Antonio is 5.
@@alwaysbam I agree. And last night I was thinking and talking to my husband and we were like when the door disappeared she merged with casita and her true door is the front door and her gift is she can communicate with casita when nobody else can and it’s not an outward gift but it is because she’s so lovely she hold the family and the enchantment together with her love. And I cried some more
The part of this movie that makes me cry was the song Surface Pressure. That feeling of "I have to be strong for everyone's sake" is just way too real. It struck deep.
Something I noticed which was really sweet, was that Mirabel is the only one who really talks to the house. In the beginning when the house was turning into a magical house, the window waved at the grandma and all she did was wave back. But with mirabel she said “hola casita”, which once again shows how connected she is to the house with not just affection but with communication.
Yeah finally someone who understands. I would even describe Mirabel's gift is like her mother. Her mother can heal what is broken and Mirabel can fix what is broken. She fixes her sisters, Bruno, her grandmother and even fixes the magic of the house. The reason she didn't get a door is because the grandmother creates the doors and she couldn't understand Mirabel's gift so no door.
My theory about this is that Mirabel was / is intended by the Magic to take over after her grandmother as the caretaker of the house / candle. Remember the grandmother herself has no special powers except that her love for her husband ignited the candle. That's why Mirabel's "door" is the Front Door of the house.
as someone who is technically the second oldest but oldest brother: it is rough. i was always the first to be told to do choirs and be a shining example to my siblings, even if my younger ones were more inspiring or were more talented. my youngest brother did a lot growing up. playing Violin, was in film school for a while, was a mechanic and is a wiz with computers. i have to Google how to do specific stuff like fixing a minor hiccup with my computer. and then my younger sister was pretty much a straight A student who graduated at the top of her class and was a really good cheerleader...while i struggled with school, barely did any after school stuff and when i did wasn't a lot. it's rough being the oldest and not knowing what you want to do with your life and... it's strange how well Disney encapsulates it into a well tuned movie. i mean, i honestly feel like Bruno, Maribel and Abuela all in one some times.
Fellow sibling. My sister is ten years older than me. So yeah we’re in the same position, legally I’m the 2nd oldest. But inside the house I’m the eldest sibling. And it drives me MAD cleaning up after my siblings. It’s hard. Honestly I’m just book smart. My brother is a whiz with cars and my sister (sigh)🙄, is an aspiring singer. What do i want to do with myself. Barely into highschool and I just feel like I’m the one who does the chores and has nothing to offer. I’m not social butterflies like either of them, nor am I athletic in any way. I can’t even ride a bike. Before, my brother and I didn’t have the best upbringing and then we came to live with my dad, his daughter and wife. Everytime I feel like I’m making some sort of attempt at getting out this hole, i get sucked down even further…. It’s a shitty feeling.
My 1 year old is obsessed with this movie and during that part, she'll hold out her hand to me just like Antonio. She also comes and hugs me when Luisa hugs Mirabel after Surface Pressure 🥲
This movie is great because EVERYONE can see themsleves as Mirabel, we want to prove we are as great as others but always get underestimated by our talents. Also we can see the struggles of people that are always praised the presusre they face. I cried because it really hit me to the core.
EXACTLY!!! As a girl who has the exact same age as her I had such an easy time relating to her and her struggles - all the family members are designed to be relatable so I love that a lot
Watching the movie I feel that I was seeing all my family members through it, where one of my sisters is Mirabel while I am the Isabella of the family. I was tough with her growing up because I am projecting the high standards I set out for myself. I realised this years ago and we are working now into having a better relationship…
I think Bruno's room changes according to his wishes, even if just subconsiously. There are so many stairs to his vision room, because his power shouldn't be used frivolously. If he's going to see the future it should be reserved for something really important. And maybe the stairs grew as he and others became more weary of his visions. I like that the room has become unreachable and even collapses when Mirabel goes looking for that vision, because Bruno doesn't want anyone to see it.
My theory is that because of the family and townspeople only seeing the bad side of his gift, he wished for the stairs to be longer and higher so that people doesn't want to walk all the way up for a vision. It also explain the sign "Your future is up there".
She is the candle in human form, every time she loses hope about the family their power fades. She has a door but it’s the front door. She can predict the powers like she did with Antonio, or help change them like she did with Isabella. Her dress was a clue the whole time. Everyone has their power represented on their dresses, Mirabel has the butterfly from the candle on her top, and all the others powers embroidered on her skirt. And because she is the candle she understands the house (Casita) more. 💃
I see everyone’s point on how the whole house is her door which is why casita comes back to life when she puts her doorknob in but is she just gonna have to stay in the nursery forever?😭
My theory is that when Abuela passes away, Mirabel will inherit her gift, which is taking care of the candle and Casita. And she will therefore inherit her room. This fits in well with the ending. I hope this actually happens.
Maribel's power is the actually the encanto it self, like the grandma, she is responsible to maintain the family together that makes sure everyone is ok, you can see that everytime she feel sad the house crack, she felt sad during Antonio's ceremony and the house started to crack right in front of her when her and the grandma who is also responsable for the encanto starts to fight the house breaks
I thought the same thing, she is there to take her grandmas place to secure the encanta and to protect it with the family. It’s honestly such a beautiful movie, I can’t wait to see part 2!
I love how Abuela starts taking an inventory and realizing how scared she was to lose her family after losing her husband that she more or less treated them as a collection rather than her family and it took Mirabel telling her she was killing the miracle to open her eyes.
Those yellow butterflies represents so much, are hope and magic among chaos and destruction, the souls of thousands Colombia's war victims. Is the most humble symbol that we have.
As a Colombian is great but at the same time sad to see that all of that has happened to the family in the movie is pretty close to what my family has gone tru, my grandpa was kidnaped twice by a terrorist group here and they almost killed him with a machete (A machete is worst than a stab with a knife bc its ment to chop things like plants or wood) with what they killed abuelo Pedro, we suffered forced displacement just like them, Disney really made a good job investigating about all the shit we have to live daily, but not only the bad stuff, the music its simply amazing and the singers are famous Colombian artists, the clothing is accurate to artisanal Colombian clothing, And the message of "You are enough with who you are" is lovely, thank you for reviewing this movie i cried like a baby too, much love❤️❤️ (Sorry if i wrote something wrong, english its not my first lenguage
Shes basically the miracle which is why she didnt get one in the beginning. Her gift is bringing the family back together hence why she didnt get one in the beginning bc they family was “fine” or “perfect” so she couldnt use her power but when the house lost its magic she was the only one to bring the family/house back together. You can also say shes the reincarnation of Pedro (abuelas husband). I mean she is like the next abuela/pedro/house owner.
Encanto is SUCH a beautiful movie! I saw it in theaters and then again with my whole family on Christmas Eve. I like that Mirabel didn't get a "gift" in the end, as well. You don't need special magic powers to be special or useful. The fan theory is actually that she's meant to be Abuela's successor, since just like how Abuela received a Miracle 50 years before, Mirabel was the one to bring the Miracle back at the end. Mirabel has empathy. She brings everyone together and watches over the magic. That's who she is, and she doesn't need a gift to do that. It's just her being her, and I think it's perfect.
Came to the comments to say exactly this. I love to see the blind reactions for their ideas what could happen. But she knew exactly what happened. So it was a little bit boring for me.
5:45 The children are very perceptive, my guess is that Antonio noticed the subtle treatment that Mirabel being different receives from the family, like, in a corner. That's why he's nervous about the whole thing, he's afraid of ending up in that place. 23:05 The ritual is something he developed over time to attract luck hoping for a good outcome. Bruno became superstitious after all that happened. Sand and an open space is all he needs for his visions. It is curious that it's sand that he uses because sand when heats it becomes glass, similar to those green rectangles. I love your reaction I was sobbing and laughing with you.
I can't believe I'm just now watching your reaction. I absolutely ADORE this movie. It's really connected to issues of self-worth and interfamilial relationships, and it makes me cry every time I see it. Abuela's backstory never fails to hit me where it hurts. Imagine having seemingly anything one would want. A loving family, a house, a life partner, newborn babies (that one's not too necessary, but I'm making broad generalisations). Then something threatens not only your life, but the life of those you love. Imagine the fear. The pain. Imagine losing your home and the love of your life almost at the same time. Imagine then the burden of keeping a whole community safe with seemingly no one there to help you. I'm kinda like Isabela in a way. I learned to read and write early and was better behaved than my older sister, plus my mother had a miscarriage before me, so I was soon the golden child. "Smart", good-natured, well-behaved, and eager to please my parents. But my parents, especially my mother, had very specific expectations for who and how I had to be. It's gotten harder to be myself around them because people change, I've changed, and I keep figuring things about myself, and they are not the type to be accepting of what I've figured out. Which makes me feel a bit like Bruno. Because my family won't be okay with who I really am, but I still love my family. And I wish one day they maybe see that who I am isn't perfect, but it's me (I really relate to Isabela in this aspect). And that I'm still their child, no matter what I wear or who I love or what my gender is or what mental disabilities I have. Meanwhile, I'm stuck feeling like Mirabel in the second song. I would do ANYTHING to make my family proud, but some things are just out of my capabilities, things I don't control. I wish someday I will have them accept me as they do Mirabel in the last song.
I feel like Abuela wasn't really a " villain " per say. As she explained she just wanted to make sure everything was perfect so she didn't have to go through loss again. She witnessed losing her husband, losing her son, her granddaughter losing her door. She wanted everything to be perfect but in the end she realized that you don't have to be perfect and I love that. Disney has done such an amazing job with the messages in all these movies. Big Hero 6 talked about loss and how you can let it consume you or learn to rely on those around you and let them help you move on. Luca talked about parental abandonment and acceptance and the ability to find new family in the people around you. And now Encanto talks about how everyone has a gift or something that makes them special but there's no reason to be perfect and it's okay to have flaws.
I feel like you are one of the first people I've seen that understands the point of the movie! Mirabel didn't receive a gift bc if she had one, she wouldn't have been able to see or help the family realize that they're losing sight of what gave them the miracle in the first place (the bond and love for family).
This movie is absolutely incredible. If you're remotely familiar with Colombian history, you'll be aware from the clues that Abuelo Pedro was killed brutally right in front of Abuela Alma and their three babies. This hits DEEP for anyone of Colombian heritage, and I commend Disney for handling it as well as they did - with great honour, and in a way that felt respectful to older viewers, but without being traumatic to the little ones. Now that Disney has been brave enough to confront heavy themes such as this in Colombia, I really hope they may someday take on something similar about an Irish family during British occupation. I know it's over now and our relationship with Britain is much better, but as an Irish woman I still see how events as recent as the Troubles affect those around me. There were monsters and angels on both sides, and I would love to see how Disney might interpet this. I believe we Irish could really do with something like this movie, as it would allow us to feel seen by the world, and to heal properly. Props to Disney and the entire team behind this movie. It may just be my new favourite Disney movie actually!
The colors in this movie, the music, the fact that they used a Colombian cast and did their research This is absolutely one of the most beautiful movies and the story is so heart-wrenchingly moving and beautiful
@@gordonramsayslambsauce Colombians aren't a race of people lmao they're white black mestizo asian etc, you can even see the diversity in the movie with Pepa being white with reddish hair and light eyes, Julieta and Bruno being darker, and all of the cousins and sisters being different shades. You can see this in the townspeople as well
Honestly, seeing how casita was the only one to really care for and look after Mirabel (while she was snubbed constantly by her family), it just makes the houses “death” more heartbreaking. Because while the family is comforting each other, Mirabel is left all alone to mourn the one part of her family who loved her unconditionally.
HUH?? Her whole family absolutely loved her unconditionally lmao. They literally never snubbed her at all. Her parents n bruno also showed a lot of love and care too like did you miss the ENTIRE movie
Did you even watch the movie? Other than Abuela and Isabela, everyone else in the family was caring towards Mirabel. How did you even come to that conclusion
I feel like not enough people really notice the significance of how the house was saving them despite the fact that it was literally falling apart. Casita is MVP of the movie
I have a theory that the upbeat songs makes you emotional because of the animation. They did such a great job bringing out the emotions on their expressions and in their VOICES. Like in Luisa's song, her voice almost breaks and you can see the desperation to be heard in her expression, or in abuela's flashback (although it's not an upbeat song) when she loses her love, the heartbreak in her expression is so beautifully animated.
i’d like to point out after abuelo died abuela put on a black shawl (for mourning) and she always wore it around the town but then after they lost the house and rebuilt her relationship with everyone she stopped wearing it 💕
I like how you picked up on Mirabel's true gift so early on, that she's intrinsically connected to the magic of the house itself, and the whole house is technically her "room". That's why the magic came back at the end, even without the candle: because the candle isn't _needed_ anymore, Mirabel is the new embodiment of the magic. _That_ was her gift.
Oh wow, I hadn't realized until I watched your video that the verse Abuela sings in the opening number is sung very very close to the same tune as Dos Oruguitas later in the film - an early nod to how much the grandma is mired in the trauma of her past. Daaaaang.
I feel like it needs to get a series, not a sequel. Another movie wouldn’t be enough imo cuz there’s so much more to explore with the Madrigals and fans wants to know more about the other members of the family like Dolores, Bruno and Camilo (all the members ofc but they are fan favorites). The whole family showed their differences in their personality and gifts but not as much since the movie was focused on Mirabel and I would love to see them more.
I love watching others react and express their thoughts. I never realized that young Abuela and Isabela look so much alike and that the vision could have been pointing to Abuela as she needed to get back to the roots and remember who the gifts are for. But yeah, I agree that her door was always meant to be the front door. The gift sensed that Mirabel would be good for the role of the future candle holder and that's why she didn't get her door until Abuela had been taught that she was hurting the family with her perfect version of what her family should be. Not seeing that everyone was slowly getting crushed under the pressure ans how unhappy they truly were. I also think that since Isabela looks so much like young Abuela, that's why she projected the need to be perfect so heavily on Isabela. Abuela wanted her to be the perfect version of herself.
When I first watched the movie I was super scared she was just gonna randomly get a gift without any "logic". I'm so glad she just took over what her grandma had which is protecting the house and thus the family and miracle. It sticks to the lore and is just an overall satisfying answer imo, though I bet many missed it.
stories where the main character is seen as kind of useless or in the way by their family and constantly feeling like they're doing or saying the wrong thing really hit home for me, so i related to mirabel a lot in that sense, and i was crying pretty early on in the movie which is unusual for me, aha.
I so love this movie. Everyone in this movie have their different characters, and every screens all have connections with what happened before.I think magic is equal to family and their connection.So love this movie I have already watched this fourth.The last thing I want to tell is that Camilo is so cute!!!!!!He is my favorite.
It’s Isabela she’s hugging in the vision. At the end of “What Else Can I Do?” they hug and the cracks in casita repair. However it’s all negated by Abuela coming in and blaming Mirabel for everything. Also Abuelo is dead. That’s what happened in the flashback. He realised they weren’t going to be able to escape so he stayed and held them off so his family could escape.
She saved the miracle when she hugged isabella because she made her entire family happy because luisa and isabella werent happy so she made them happy by having a talk and a hug and when her family is happy the miracle keeps going but abuela made them sad again so the miracle was in trouble
I have to mention how proud I am that Disney actually got the color tone of Hispanic families right. I saw light, dark, and tan. It was great representation.
Especially with them all being in the same family!! My siblings and I are all very different skin tones, and it was lovely to see that diversity in one household just like my own.
@@CindyRubyCutie literally !!!
YEP! That's what I loved about the characters too! My dad is from El Salvador and my mom is Mexican and my brothers and I range in skintone 😂
@@CindyRubyCutie same here. We’re every color in the box, but we are a family.
Same here! We are venezolanos, my father is dark, not black but has a very tanned skin. My little sister is the same tone or even a bit darker than my father. My mom has whiter skin, and I'm more pale than her
Half of my whole family, curly dark hair
The other half, straight hair and light eye colors!
Bruno resembles his father. He's selfless, loves his family enough to separate himself from them and 'sacrifice' himself if that means that his family would be happy. Just like his father did.
I also like how out of all of her family members, Mirabel looks the most like her mother and Bruno, two of the people in her family, who, despite the fact that they both have gifts, still treat Mirabel like an equal, and someone who is just as special as everyone else.
I didn't think of this and now I'm emotional again
It really shows the connection of him and his father. Just another thing, I can see why they showed him as bad, because no one really knew as much as abuela did about the father. In we don't talk about bruno, one of Dolores lyrics is "Always left abuela and the family fumbling" somewhat how abuela's husband sacrificed himself and ditched for abuela and the 3 children with her. Also they look similar too.
Oh My God! Yes, yes. Now that I think about it...
@@lumisherbert5682 it make sense that mirabel is most like pepa, bruno and julieta. Pepa-Emotional, Bruno-Selfless, Julieta-caring. All qualities given with Mirabel
According to the writer/director, Bruno actually made the vision ritual up himself. He *could* have visions without it, but he found them so stressful and taxing that he created the ritual to help focus and emotionally prepare himself. It became something of a crutch for him, and added to his superstitious nature, the ritual is now necessary in his mind.
The only thing necessary would be the sand, since the other madrigals use the elements of nature to use their gifts, it is also necessary, of course, so that others can see their visions and not only bruno
Makes sense!!! He has OCD
@@tabaleao
That's just speculation isn't it?
@@tabaleao more like stress induced ocd
@@angelpaco3487 Exactly--he needs the sand to create that green glass stuff; both the sand and the glass can be used to share the imagery of the vision with someone else. I expect he does that with bigger visions, life changing events...whereas for smaller stuff he'd just think ahead and tell the person out loud. I can't imagine he'd go through all the trouble of climbing his big tower and everything just to tell the priest he'd go bald, for instance, and I doubt anyone in town would want to wait that long for a minor vision.
Its actually very subtle: her gift is the same as Abuela Alma's. She's connected to the house itself. That's why she can communicate with it, and why the house doesn't come back alive until SHE puts the doorknob in.
Or, in other words, her door was the house's FRONT door!
Note: I made this comment before I heard her say the same thing. But now it's basically confirmed!
Yeah. The reason she didn't get a gift at her 5th birthday. Is because she will inherit Abuelas gift when she passes and be the one that will keep the family together. I like this explanation. It is subtle but a good ending. :)
Nope it was the family's plus the movie is on Maribel's pov so it's normal to not see the others interact with the heart, I like to imagine that the Encanto fanbase most of them is forcing Maribel to have a gift/power
I think there's also another layer to it too--she's not just attuned to the house as in the physical building; she's attuned to the House as in the entire family. Mirabel spends her hero's journey checking in with and learning about the actual needs of her family members that are going neglected because Abuela's approach to everything is still being informed by her grief and trauma. Her gift is seeing what's wrong--the metaphorical cracks in the family, including Abuela--and helping patch them up. She just doesn't need magic to do it.
@@NO-ux2xf I like to imagine when she touched the doorknob and it disappeared, the front door shined. But nobody could see it.
@@backwheniwasurage Nope everyone can interact with the house Mirabel just interacts more on the house because your watching the movie in her pov
It's not that she was hugging abuela in the vision. The vision showed Maribel hugging Isabela because it was a necessary step. That hug was the catalyst for Mirabel to realize what the real problem was-the fact that they were all so pressured to use their gifts the "proper" way and be who abuela/the community needed them to be, that they weren't being their true selves and it was breaking them apart. It started fixing itself when Mirabel helped Isabela finally let go of the pressure to be perfect, and just create the things SHE wanted to create, for once. It made Isabela happy, and it strengthened their bond, and the candle, all at once.
Its subtle, but it happens with Pepa, too. The whole movie, Abuela keeps chastising her that "she's thundering" or that she's raining on them, basically reminding her to "keep her gift in check". But then at the end, Bruno tells her to "let it rain, let it snow, let it go" and after that you see her dancing in the rain, no longer struggling to repress her gift, and embracing it instead.
Bruno did say that the vision was out of order
I also like the idea that who she was hugging in the vision is Abuela as a young woman. She looked a lot like Isabela when she was younger and needed to be embraced. Yes, hugging Isabela was a catalyst for everything that happened after, but also Abuela's past self needed healing as well.
Long ago, I came across a theory on why Casita fell to pieces that ties into your comment quite nicely.
According to the person who posted, the house's magic existed because their was a strong sense of harmonious balance within the family. But the moment Mirabel started doubting her worth, Casita's magic started to crack.
As the movie went on, Alma kept putting too much importance on her family's gifts; which in turn placed LOADS of pressure on the children (as shown through Luisa.) The final nail in the coffin came when Alma kept stubbornly insisting that it was Mirabel's fault things were going wrong
You are right but that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t have been easier to get a gesture saying talk to your grandmother and stuff like that.
But we're also assuming that Bruno's vision HAD to give a solution to the problem. It didn't. Bruno's visions tell the future, they don't necessarily answer questions. So if she was shown the hug with Isabella it was not something she needed to do, but something that was just going to happen. Which it did.
I'm Colombian, and this movie felt like a beautiful representation of the diversity or my country. Abuela's story was so touching to me because it's based on real violence a lot of families have experienced here.
I am Colombian too
Me too
I live in Colombia, this movie got so many things right but non-Colombians missed the significance of the Yellow butterfly. In One hundred Years of Solitude which was written in the 60's and is one of the most important pieces of literature in Colombia the yellow butterfly signifies infinite love and hope. With all the cultural references in the movie there is no way the writers do not know this. The original script was meant to take place over one hundred years as a nod to Gabriel Garcia Marquez's book, this is a man who won the Nobel prize for literature. And specifically wrote magical realism which is how Disney categorised this movie. There are over 3,400 different butterflies in Colombia of all different colours and shades. So the choosing of this from this culture and from this country is not a mistake. Mirabel heals the home by having infinite love for her family and hope for the future. This is what allows her to forgive her Grandmother, the house knows this from the beginning she is the heart of the family, the heart of the home, she does not get a door at the beginning because the house knows the home is breaking. But she has the best relationship with the house through out.
I enjoyed your reaction.
I absolutely love that, this whole movie gave me a greater respect for Colombian culture
@@M0ldyBubbles Not a lot apparently if you keep writting Colombia with u /j
Colombia*
@@lauramercedes1835 For real, it’s not that hard lmao
@@dundee7631 I'm sorry I misspelled something?
I really liked how when Isabela finally admitted she didn't wanted to marry that guy she created a cactus. It's like the completely opposite of what she's has been doing her whole life. Flowers are simetrical, pretty, they smell nice. Her powers reflected the way she behaved and when she finally broke free she learned that her powers are about creating any type of plant (which, may I say, it's much cooler than just flowers).
I love the idea of her becoming a plant mom 😆
I don't know why but it makes me happy
It's even cooler when you look back earlier on and realize something. Bruno's vision for Isabela: "He told me that the life of my dreams would be promised and someday be mine. He told me that my powers would grow like the grapes that thrive on the vine." She clearly was not living the life she dreamed of, pressure of perfection and marrying a man she didn't want to for the family's sake despite knowing Dolores likes him. Her smile following the surprise of hearing he wants 5 kids there looks forced. It was after the proposal went horribly wrong and she lashed out admitting she never wanted to marry him that her powers finally "grew" as she realized she could make more than just pretty flowers. That she didn't have to make things perfect. That SHE didn't have to be perfect, the way her family and the community has become to expect. She just had to be herself.
Bruno's vision there actually seems like it had been predicting that event, but without context of the situation that led to it.
@@sterthester736 Abuela forced her into the role of the perfect golden girl. Always only pretty pink flowers. Never being able to break free or to experience. When the flowers grow on her head out of shock, Abuela picks out the one white flower, because she doesn’t allow a bit of imperfection on her.
Also a lot of plants have or impact healing properties.
To me, its a coming out song just like Let it Go. She's literally covered In a rainbow by the end, shuts down her mariage to the town's hunk and grows rainbow plants.. it doesn't get more obvious without adding a same sex love interest.
I love how you realised Dolores was in love with Mariano right away. Most people seem to miss that, I know I did. In hindsight it's pretty clear but on the first watch it's subtle (makes rewatching it sooo worth it, plus the songs of course!!)
The saddest part about abuela's backstory is that is very common to colombian families to be displaced because of war, especially in rural zones. We're the number 1 country with people suffering forced displacement from their hometowns (almost 8.3 MILLION people last year), so this movie really hit way too close to my heart as a colombian woman. Also, i think the movie is about the family trauma left by this forced displacement, and to see how at the end of it that "trauma chain" is finally broken it's beautiful and feels so comforting.
that moment was heartbreaking.
you made me cry
it's very relatable for many people of war-torn countries. Raids, guriella warfare, people you knew turning on you, boats capsizing trying to escape.
I cried at that moment it was so sobbing Like my mom told me whats the matter ( I'm not kid I'm teen)
@@gpaderx6105 sorry
I assume that Casita is actually Abuelo's spirit. And his wish for the family to stay together. But when the family started to fall apart- NOT starting with Mirabel, but actually with Bruno. Abuelo decided to test the family by not giving Mirabel a gift. The more divided they are, the more it saddens Abuelo and they lose their gifts.
I think its Mirabels fault she didn't get a gift, when she touched the candle before she touched the door she wiped her hands on her dress. I think the magic went into her, Then she touched the candle and well, didnt get a gift
@me1me1me1 there's a theory that actually makes sense I heard, it's when mirabel touched the candle, before she touched her door she wiped her hands on her dress (and I think the magic went into her instead of the door) the when she touched the door it didn't have magic so it faded away
@me1me1me1 yeah but after he touched mirabel THEN he touched the candle
@@abbij2009 I heard that one of the producers said that it was an interesting theory but she actually just gets sweaty hands when she’s nervous which actually perfectly matches her character LMAO
@@iamagrill270 oh, well still theory that could make sense :)
1. The colorful river that they show us in the movie is a real river, is called Caño Cristales. It is known as the most beautiful river in the world.
2. In Luisa's song, when the second verse begins, Luisa and Mirabel fall into a coffee grinder
3. The plates where Bruno's visions are seen, are emerald. Colombia is the largest exporter of emerald in the world.
4. All the gifts of the family represent something Colombian. Pepa represents the country's varied and rare climate. Camilo the variety of races and ethnic groups of the country. Dolores gossip. Antonio biodiversity. Isabela the flora. Juliet the gastronomy. Luisa the work of the Colombian, could we say (?
5. All the clothes you see in the movie, including hats, are cultural from all over the country. That is why it is disrespectful to us that Disney sells it.
6. Candles represent a lot in our culture, in fact we have a day dedicated to lighting candles. Hence why the candles in the movie.
7.The palma de Cera that is mentioned in Isabela's song, and seen throughout the town, is the national tree of Colombia, and is the largest type of palm in the world.
8. The yellow butterflies represent one of the novels by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a Colombian literature Nobel Prize winner.
9. Violence in Colombia is a very big issue, which continues to be experienced to this day. In the grandmother's past we can see Forced Displacement. Colombia is the country with the most internally displaced people in the world.
You are SO right. Mirabel's door was the front door, which is why her first door ceremony didn't work. Her gift is to be the heart of the family, and eventually the head of the community like Abuela. Every door had the character in the middle etched more brightly, with the depiction of their power around them in lighter etching. The new front door has Mirabel in the center in brighter etching, and her family around her more lightly, confirming that this was meant to be her door all along, and her room is the whole Casita.
I also watched on Christmas Eve, with my family. ❤️ And I truly loved Luisa's song as well. And my best friend is Filipino, so when you referred to Isabella as Mirabel's "Ate" it made me smile
Omg I never thought of that thank you
Question - why did a door appear at all - if they house didn't intend given her a gift? I also don't understand why the house didn't accommodate Bruno better if it assist to look after the family, the house should have moved to accommodate Bruno in the walls. I was really saddened when Mirabel said she was living in the nursery all the time after no getting a room.
I thought it maybe had to do with her whipping her hands after touching the candle. But I could be completely wrong.
@@claireevelyn3379 My assumption is that the door appeared at all to determine Mirabel's Gift. Each gift of the family members is connected to something they are passionate about. Antonio, the animal lover, literally becomes the king of animals as he touches his door. The same thing happened with Mirabel. The door appeared because of a family member reaching the required age for their gift. When Mirabel touched the door, her passion for her family came through, together with her gift of being the miracle of the family that holds them together. In other words becoming the new candle, which is supposed to fix the family and which is why the actual candle fades as she touches her door. Her door then disappeares because her actual door is supposed to be the front door, the heart of the home of her family. I'm guessing after Abuela passes away, her room will shift into one that matches Mirabel only for herself, like the other doors and she will become the new head of the family. So in conclusion, the door appeared to "scan" her gift and then disappeared because she became the miracle, replaced the candle and her magic of being the glue in the family going beyond an individual power like the rest. Besides, this could be a stretch, so I rather see is just as a Headcanon of mine.. but the nursery in which she was living is a room that could be connected with something healing or comfort through love, right? I think that may be another connection to Mirabel literally healing the family and learning that they are all longing for love without any pressure in different ways.
It's like Hestia, tending to the hearth/home/hope/family.
The reconciliation scene made me cry. It's great to see someone who is old, proud and made sacrifices own up to their mistakes to someone they're supposed to be respected by, to someone who they had previously blamed for the things that went wrong. I don't see older people take responsibility often, especially in family.
it’s such a good message !! and the fact it’s in a disney movie thats so beautifully well done fills me with hope. i love this movie
I think the creators have said that Bruno doesn’t need to perform that little ritual in order to use his powers, but he does it as a way of calming himself down and focusing.
"Go on. Apologiiiize."
*Younger Siblings everywhere:* Holy fck this is too realistic.
my older sister acts a lot like isabela and she was like "omg isabela is such a bitch🙄" and I was like 💀
@@miaumisumiau not me having Isabela as one of my favourite characters
@@galaxiagirlproductions561 I honestly like her at the end but i didn't love her at the beginning
@@galaxiagirlproductions561 same
@@galaxiagirlproductions561 Wait same but it’s still realistic lol
Everyone who has a soul was crying on this movie. I am so happy, that they did not play in cheesy animals side kicks, goofy actions, and they did not insulted intelligence of a child and adult. This movie has so much cathartic and healing properties, and I know that it will be well remembered for the deep respect for the audience. Great, memorable characters, true positive message, perfect animation,great story, songs that reveal truth. This is pure gold. Pure miracle.
Truth I haven’t seen a Disney movie that emotionally ripped my heart out in a long time. I do believe it’s healing a lot of people and bringing up the issue of family trauma and dynamics. Plus the representation is awesome. once you know everything it makes repeat viewings that much better. Plus omfg Every song is perfection. No skippable ones At All!
I was crying on and off from the moment Mirabel told off Abuela to the start of All of You
i didnt cry!? i just never cry from watching movies
well, guess my soulless ginger self lived up to our reputation
I didn’t cry but the movie was very good 👍
An interesting thing I just noticed during your reaction here... Luisa talks about how she felt weak when Mirabel first saw the cracks, and I wondered if that applied to the other family members too, even though no one else mentioned it... Pepa didn't have a cloud. She was visibly concerned by Mirabel saying the house was in danger, but she didn't have a cloud.
Mirabel's abuela crying when Pedro was killed made me BREAK DOWN. The animation is incredible.
YES, and I love how they show it in a more subdued way in the beginning of the story because she's sugar coating the story to young Mirabel and then when Mirabel is older, they show the real pain her Abuela felt when she lost her husband. gets me every time
Yes I was balling like a baby
It made me cry in a way no other Disney film has. It was just heartbreaking
Ikr I cried so hard
@@saraosorio553 imagine how Abuela change the story to euphemisms when she needs to tell it to her children and grandchildren what happened to Abuelo. That would be very painful 😶🙃
What happened to Alma and her housband was raids due to violence, guerrilla occupation to be precise which is a real problem that happened and still happens to rural communities here in Colombia, we call it Desplazamiento. Because yeah, Abuela's husband wasnt taken
*He was killed in cold blood*
So yeah, it really hits close to a lot of latinos, Colombians specially
My relatives in Colombia said something similar to how a lot of the locals there felt that exactly.
@@FroBoy696 I did not cry during the whole movie, but when I saw that scene I burst into tears because as a Colombian I know that it was not just an emotional scene, it is something that happens in real life in Colombia
En esa parte en el cine podías escuchar a la gente llorando, yo incluida.
Let's not generalize, because it isn't just guerrillas. Paramilitary forces have done the same and are far more violent. We need to acknowledge that. However, this movie takes place in the 1950s, which means Alma's story happens in the early 1900s, so what is depicted is not guerrilla occupation, is the Thousand Days War.
@@jpruedag right right, shouldve known that was the time period
Yknow, seeing Agustín dressed like that and all
9:31 I don't know how they made the house so cute, but in the scene where it really breaks I loved how hard it was trying to keep the family safe from its own falling pieces. That yanked my heart strings more than the actual plot.
This has been playing on repeat in my house since it dropped lol. So excited to see your reaction...PS love the outfit surprised you didn't know it was a musical its by Lin Manuel Miranda the king of musicals
Sameeeeee me and my sister are obsessed
I’ve watched it 4 times
Once at the movie theater with my sis and my mom
The next day again at the movie theater but with my friends
Then in my aunts house with my aunt
Then in my aunts house with my other friend at 3:00 am
I have as well
@@sour_lemonz8578 I've watched it 5 times since it came out and I won't stop yet lmao
SAME!!!
"Only the ones with gifts"
Except, the husbands are in it. The thing about this moment is... while it sucks they didn't notice she wasn't in it right away, no one told her she couldn't be in the picture. Abuela said "everyone gather round!" And she didn't move. So, on the one hand, she kinda isolated herself there... but on the other... all that negative talk and patronization she's been dealing with since she didn't get a door must be REALLY internalized for her to assume she's not welcome in the picture, even though the uncles who don't have powers are in it.
She's also been dealing with the family her whole life though, so it's not out of the question that either she was told not to join once before, or that she in the past didn't join bc she felt outcast, only to have it confirmed when nobody ever told her to come get in the picture. It can't ALL be her internalization, because nobody else in the family seems to notice or even care that she's not in it.
I love that theory. I always thought that the husband's were in the picture even tho they didn't have magic is because they're not blood, so no one expects them to have gifts so that was ok. Mirabel was a born Madrigal with no gift so it was a conflict of Abuela's perfect image
her father and uncle don't have powers, but they were never expected to have powers, the dynamic between the Madrigals revolves around what can you do and how can you help, everything they needed to do for the family they were expected to do without powers and that's why they have their place, they are accepted. Mirabel is considered a failure because she was supposed to have gifts but she didn't and although they didn't told her not to be in the picture nobody notice that she wasn't
Nah, this is placing the blame on Mirabel. Her family still at no point pause to make sure she was in it, not only that not a single one of them noticed she wasn't at the party. They wanted her out of the way.
I noticed how she just stands there and never intended herself to get a picture with her family but surely enough, she was almost like an outcast like bruno does that explains why mirabel have similarities towards bruno are kinda obvious that the madrigals realized what they did but they still continued it and moved on to they're next victim Mirabel im glad they changed afterwards to the movie and decided to move on to they're actions and just live a normal life like they should be
Even though I'm not Columbian, I *am* Filipina, and I think a lot of the themes in Encanto translate so well in our culture - especially putting your family's needs above your own, the pressure to keep up a positive public façade, how intergenerational trauma can be passed down when we don't process loss and grief, etc. I bawled during "Dos Oruguitas" 😅 What a beautiful movie.
I hope Dolores can turn her hearing off if she wants, or at the very least that her room is some kind of super quiet sound-proofed sanctuary or something. Because, well....she lives in a house with 2 married couples, a teenage boy, and one very lonely middle-aged man who's never been married and has been isolated for 10 years.
😳
TRUE I was thinking about it the whole entire time I really hope that she has some sound proof room or something
@@izzieb.2926 😏
looking at how bruno does ceremonies before getting vission, dolores probably also could on or off her gift
LMAO I didn't even think of that 🤣 Poor girl 😭
This was a lovely pick me up today. Encanto was so sweet and your reaction was super fun
Thank you so much! I’m so happy you enjoyed the video✨
Hey! You're my favorite video essay UA-camr 😁 cool to see you in other videos
Yu welcom monica
@@MonicaCatapusan im have whact the encanto i.m like this its a wonderfull lm love this family bye
@@MonicaCatapusan Abuses has no gift
When Mirabel lost her gift she didn’t lose the magic, she stored it inside of her very soul until it was time to wake up the new casita at the end of the movie. It was destiny.
I'm from Colombia I was soooo happy to see an ABUNDANCE of skin tones, hair textures, cultural clothing, etc. The animation blew me away and the story is just so beautiful it immediately became my comfort film.
Same. Umm, I am from India tho. The perfect sister looks like my own cousin and the colour throwing, oh boy!
Love how Bruno is like “every time [people hate my visions]” after Mirabel is mad about having to get along with Isabel.
But unlike most of the others, Mirabel doesn't blame Bruno for the vision even though she hates it. She's upset, but it's about Bruno assuming this will be easy because hey go hug your sister, not about having to hug her sister. Bruno being Bruno, of course, misunderstands. I love this movie so much for how real it feels, despite the magic.
I love the fact that EVERY time I watch a reaction video to this movie I see something new! Like in the picture Camilo is low on the ground to put his arm around Antonio, that mixed with his concern about how Antonio will feel about losing his powers, he must really adore his little brother. Or the scene after that where Pepa is walking past with a cloud and she eats something and it makes her cloud go away, so she had a snack amd it made her feel better lol. That's so adorable, I'm usually distracted by Agustin being robbed by Antionas minions lol. The way he has his animals running rampant all over the place the whole movie youd think he was far more mischievous than Camilo's douting ass ever was lol
I feel like Surface Pressure should always end with that hug lol, like even if it's a reaction to the song lol, cuz Luisa always needs that lol. But I love the fact that after Mirabel gives her a hug and Luisa is vulnerable with her she presses her face into Maribel's for more comfort. That combined with Luisa basically choke holding Mirabel in the family photo makes me think their pretty close and we barely got to see any of that. I feel like Encanto is a perfect little film on it's own, but a series would have so much potential!
I feel so bad for Isabela because Abuela was living vicariously through her. Isabela is the one who looks most like her, and Abuela wanted her and her life to be perfect. Mariano also looks very similar to Abuelo (I forgot his name lol) , which is probably why she wanted her to marry him. I think she was trying to recreate Isabela’s life how she wanted hers to end up.
Yeah as much as i do believe Abuela did want what she believed was best for Isabella I do believe she was also living through Isabella since it doesnt seem like she was ever open to hearing whay Isabella wanted
True!!
True because they did look simler
For the people saying it was actually Isabela in the vision, I wanna just share my thought on it. I saw it as being both Isabela and Abuela. In the beginning of the vision it looks more like Abuela to me, but then morphs into Isabela. And Mirabel had to talk with and understand them both, and they both needed to realize what they were doing wasn't true to themselves or the family. The two hugs have Mirabel in the same pose, but the person she's hugging is the one changing variable, just like the vision.
The fact that the movie is so underrated and good- I watched it 8 times-
It's not that Mirabel didn't get a gift, it's because Casita chose her to be the next head of the family. Abuela Alma was able to summon the magic through immense and intense fear and loss and desire to protect. The magic appeared from how strongly she felt that. But over time, abuela started to lose sight of what was important. So the cracks had been appearing for years. But pay attention, all the kids going to their doors had an idea in mind of what they wanted to have for a gift. Mirabel only had one thing in mind. She wanted to make her family proud because she loved her family so intensely. So Casita didn't give her a gift because her love was going to power the magic. Her passion for her family shows once she is older. She makes sure to be skilled in so many things, yet makes no big deal out of it. She sews all her own clothes, puts intricate details in them. She crafts all the gifts for the family, she is a literal parcor champ, plays the accordion perfectly, dances beautifully, can sing. She is literally the actual gifted child in a family. She does all that without magic. And she is the first one up every day to get the table and everything ready for her family. She is literally the most dedicated member of the Madrigals. And she is literally the only one who could openly converse back and forth with Casita. But the family all act as if she just gets in the way. Even her mother who clearly lives and supports her doesn't really acknowledge all the great and talented things Mirabel does. And easily believes she is making things up when she shows zero evidence of doing so prior.
And then look at the end of the movie, who is at the forefront on the door, it's Mirabel. I imagine that she now will have her own door and everything in the house, similar to how abuela has a door, but no actual gift. But the only reason that Casita was able to come back to life was because Mirabel powered it back with the love she has for her family.
Wow I understand now, thank you for explaining!
In the encanto book, the family made Mirabel her own door designed with things that represented each of the family. Like flowers for isa, the candle for abuela, the sun for pepa, animals for antonio, etc.
I love this explanation, I basically took it the same way. That mirabels gift is the house and the family. She’s basically the glue that holds everything together. That’s why she’s in the front of the house in Bruno’s vision and when he was moving the vision back in forth the house was cracked and then right back whole again. But when people saw his vision they just assumed mirabel is the reason for the house being cracked but in actuality the family holding in so much emotion is the reason the house was cracked and mirabel is the one that figured out how to piece everything back together. Bruno’s vision was basically telling him that the house is falling apart and only mirabel has the gift to figure out how to fix it. That’s why towards the end abuela says to mirabel something along the lines of “I asked my Pedro for help and I didn’t realize he sent me you”
Love, love, LOVE your analysis. Mirabel as the actual glue that bonds her family together. I love those glimpses that show how much effort she puts into being there for others, into being useful, into having so many talents. (Plus, as a fellow artisan, I just loved seeing her sewing machine and the embroidery and her plush making skills!)
so cute i cant
Abuela can commands the Casitas into doing things but only Mirabel can have a full on conversation with it..
Casita*
Yeah and it's like a pleasant conversation with Mirabel, (she truly cares and understands the casita) rather than ordering it like Abuela.
Mark my words, Mirabel will be the matriarch of this house, in the future.
That shows how she literally has conversations with everyone in the family. Unlike the grandma. She needed to start listening to everyone and learning from them.
It was amazing to see my family, my people being represented in a Disney film. Coming from a Hispanic, they didn’t stereotype, they really tried to get it right, huge respect on that one.
So shes basically the therapist of the family LMAO
Omg😭
@@MonicaCatapusan there's actually a theory that's pretty mich accepted as fact that mirabel didn't get a gift because she's supposed to be Alma's successor. This especially makes sense with the front door at the end where it shows the whole family but Mirabel is front and center. And the door started to glow when she put the doorknob in. Plus she's the only one besides Alma to talk to the house and have it react according to her moods and commands.
@@izzieb.2926 who is alma?
@@gowatchbsdpls Abuela Alma. Ahaahahha
@@alexispabon4355 ohhhhh wait sorry now I get it lolll
Isabela’s storyline hit the hardest for me and i honestly wish they would’ve delved into it more! she’s the eldest daughter & grandchild and she clearly looks the most like abuela so her entire life abuela has been trying to live vicariously through her wanting isa to have the ~perfect~ life abuela wasn’t able to! even down to the detail of mariano looking similar to abuelo pedro and abuela being so eager for the marriage proposal and what it will do for the family when isa clearly doesn’t want it
I've been thinking Luisa is the eldest, her song has a lyric that mentions, "give it to your sister, your sister's older" which tells me that she's probably the eldest of the third generation and has probably heard the adults say that A LOT.
@@KyliaSkydancer Luisa is 19 while Isabela & Dolores are both 22 with Isa being the eldest by a few months! Luisa is older than Mirabel so the line still makes sense especially because since Mirabel doesn’t have a gift Luisa has probably spent the last 10 years overcompensating to make up for that
@@KyliaSkydancer The oldest is Isabella.
When Isa grows flowers out of shock on her head abuela picks out the one white flower, because she doesn’t allow the slightest imperfection on her.
I loved their stories I wish they would have did more toooooooo omg
This movie is so beautiful! The characters and songs and everything about it is so so so so good. I've watched Encanto so many times already, I can't get enough of it haha
The fact that most people thought when the house was collapsing they were like OHNOO bruno still in there.he putted his bucket on his head and busted out of the the wall.that was one of my favorite parts it was surprising and funny to me.bruno and luisa.
My only complaint on the movie is that I wanted MORE disney plz give us a series because that’s what the Madrigals deserve
I’m sure they’ll do a short at some point! I hope they do, would love to delve further into Dolores and Camilo and their lives a bit more
I hope so! I think a series where the grandmother slowly develops to become more like Mirabel, Alma prepares Mirabel to take over her position as matriarch (and the stress Mirabel will have to go through, since leadership will always be difficult), and stories about the difficulties other family members go thru as they learn more about themselves since they previously had to suppress themselves would be so cool!
if they cam make a _hotel transilvania_ series (that no one asked for), then thay can make at _least_ a short!
@@ma.2089 I agree and think a series like this would be awesome
YESYESYES! SERIES
I love how kind Monica is. With her loving heart.
Just for reference, they get their gifts when they are 5 years old. The ages of all the characters are: Abuela is 75, Julieta, Pepa, Bruno, Agustin, and Felix are all 50, Isabela and Dolores are 22, Luisa is 19, Camilo and Mirabel are 15, and Antonio is 5.
Dolores.
@@jaimepe4765 oops sorry! thanks for telling me, I'll fix it right away.
@@stephanievanderboom7145 No worries. Just FYI, Dolores is an extremely dramatic name for a female in Spanish... Since it literally means "Pains".
@@jaimepe4765 Dang- imagine being named "pains," that would kinda suck-
Luisa is the oldest out of isabela, Luisa and mirabel so your aging is off , surface pressure is literally about Luisa being the oldest
I cried so hard through this entire movie. Beginning to end! Also made me realllly miss my Abuela. RIP MAMA. This may be my new favorite movie
This movie is high key emotions. I like was boo hooing all through it. Soundtrack slaps
@@alwaysbam I agree. And last night I was thinking and talking to my husband and we were like when the door disappeared she merged with casita and her true door is the front door and her gift is she can communicate with casita when nobody else can and it’s not an outward gift but it is because she’s so lovely she hold the family and the enchantment together with her love. And I cried some more
The part of this movie that makes me cry was the song Surface Pressure. That feeling of "I have to be strong for everyone's sake" is just way too real. It struck deep.
Something I noticed which was really sweet, was that Mirabel is the only one who really talks to the house. In the beginning when the house was turning into a magical house, the window waved at the grandma and all she did was wave back. But with mirabel she said “hola casita”, which once again shows how connected she is to the house with not just affection but with communication.
Her superpower was being able to confront trauma and address toxic family dynamics.. Which.. yeah. That is a superpower!
Yeah finally someone who understands. I would even describe Mirabel's gift is like her mother. Her mother can heal what is broken and Mirabel can fix what is broken. She fixes her sisters, Bruno, her grandmother and even fixes the magic of the house. The reason she didn't get a door is because the grandmother creates the doors and she couldn't understand Mirabel's gift so no door.
My theory about this is that Mirabel was / is intended by the Magic to take over after her grandmother as the caretaker of the house / candle. Remember the grandmother herself has no special powers except that her love for her husband ignited the candle. That's why Mirabel's "door" is the Front Door of the house.
as someone who is technically the second oldest but oldest brother: it is rough. i was always the first to be told to do choirs and be a shining example to my siblings, even if my younger ones were more inspiring or were more talented. my youngest brother did a lot growing up. playing Violin, was in film school for a while, was a mechanic and is a wiz with computers. i have to Google how to do specific stuff like fixing a minor hiccup with my computer. and then my younger sister was pretty much a straight A student who graduated at the top of her class and was a really good cheerleader...while i struggled with school, barely did any after school stuff and when i did wasn't a lot.
it's rough being the oldest and not knowing what you want to do with your life and... it's strange how well Disney encapsulates it into a well tuned movie. i mean, i honestly feel like Bruno, Maribel and Abuela all in one some times.
As a fellow older sibling (the oldest of 5), I get what you mean 😅
Fellow sibling. My sister is ten years older than me. So yeah we’re in the same position, legally I’m the 2nd oldest. But inside the house I’m the eldest sibling. And it drives me MAD cleaning up after my siblings. It’s hard. Honestly I’m just book smart. My brother is a whiz with cars and my sister (sigh)🙄, is an aspiring singer. What do i want to do with myself. Barely into highschool and I just feel like I’m the one who does the chores and has nothing to offer. I’m not social butterflies like either of them, nor am I athletic in any way. I can’t even ride a bike. Before, my brother and I didn’t have the best upbringing and then we came to live with my dad, his daughter and wife. Everytime I feel like I’m making some sort of attempt at getting out this hole, i get sucked down even further…. It’s a shitty feeling.
I love how they made isabellas skin dark, and she is the girl who represents beaty and perfectnes! 🌸🌺👊🏻👊🏼👊🏽👊🏾👊🏿
Yessssss
Yes, we love representation here!
YES. About freakin time.
@@candicejackson6070 🥺🤚💀💗
@@reydragonclaw1128 yes yes yes! 🌞🌻🌸
Okay. I just had to stop midway to write how amazingly observing you are. You picked up so much in a single watch!
When Antonio held Mirabel's hand just like she did during his ceremony I ugly cried out loud! This movie is precious
My 1 year old is obsessed with this movie and during that part, she'll hold out her hand to me just like Antonio. She also comes and hugs me when Luisa hugs Mirabel after Surface Pressure 🥲
@@saraosorio553 give her to me!!
this movie made me so emotional i cried during SO many of the songs
This movie is great because EVERYONE can see themsleves as Mirabel, we want to prove we are as great as others but always get underestimated by our talents. Also we can see the struggles of people that are always praised the presusre they face. I cried because it really hit me to the core.
EXACTLY!!! As a girl who has the exact same age as her I had such an easy time relating to her and her struggles
- all the family members are designed to be relatable so I love that a lot
Watching the movie I feel that I was seeing all my family members through it, where one of my sisters is Mirabel while I am the Isabella of the family. I was tough with her growing up because I am projecting the high standards I set out for myself. I realised this years ago and we are working now into having a better relationship…
I think Bruno's room changes according to his wishes, even if just subconsiously. There are so many stairs to his vision room, because his power shouldn't be used frivolously. If he's going to see the future it should be reserved for something really important. And maybe the stairs grew as he and others became more weary of his visions. I like that the room has become unreachable and even collapses when Mirabel goes looking for that vision, because Bruno doesn't want anyone to see it.
Or it's a symbol of his separation from the family. They are scared of him and he tried to keep them away to protect them.
My theory is that because of the family and townspeople only seeing the bad side of his gift, he wished for the stairs to be longer and higher so that people doesn't want to walk all the way up for a vision. It also explain the sign "Your future is up there".
She is the candle in human form, every time she loses hope about the family their power fades. She has a door but it’s the front door. She can predict the powers like she did with Antonio, or help change them like she did with Isabella. Her dress was a clue the whole time. Everyone has their power represented on their dresses, Mirabel has the butterfly from the candle on her top, and all the others powers embroidered on her skirt. And because she is the candle she understands the house (Casita) more. 💃
I see everyone’s point on how the whole house is her door which is why casita comes back to life when she puts her doorknob in but is she just gonna have to stay in the nursery forever?😭
I think Alma’s room is likely a traditional room so maybe the nursery can be changed into a regular room.
My theory is that when Abuela passes away, Mirabel will inherit her gift, which is taking care of the candle and Casita. And she will therefore inherit her room. This fits in well with the ending. I hope this actually happens.
Fr i hope she got a new room at least
Maribel's power is the actually the encanto it self, like the grandma, she is responsible to maintain the family together that makes sure everyone is ok, you can see that everytime she feel sad the house crack, she felt sad during Antonio's ceremony and the house started to crack right in front of her when her and the grandma who is also responsable for the encanto starts to fight the house breaks
I thought the same thing, she is there to take her grandmas place to secure the encanta and to protect it with the family. It’s honestly such a beautiful movie, I can’t wait to see part 2!
I love how Abuela starts taking an inventory and realizing how scared she was to lose her family after losing her husband that she more or less treated them as a collection rather than her family and it took Mirabel telling her she was killing the miracle to open her eyes.
Those yellow butterflies represents so much, are hope and magic among chaos and destruction, the souls of thousands Colombia's war victims. Is the most humble symbol that we have.
As a Colombian is great but at the same time sad to see that all of that has happened to the family in the movie is pretty close to what my family has gone tru, my grandpa was kidnaped twice by a terrorist group here and they almost killed him with a machete (A machete is worst than a stab with a knife bc its ment to chop things like plants or wood) with what they killed abuelo Pedro, we suffered forced displacement just like them, Disney really made a good job investigating about all the shit we have to live daily, but not only the bad stuff, the music its simply amazing and the singers are famous Colombian artists, the clothing is accurate to artisanal Colombian clothing, And the message of "You are enough with who you are" is lovely, thank you for reviewing this movie i cried like a baby too, much love❤️❤️
(Sorry if i wrote something wrong, english its not my first lenguage
Shes basically the miracle which is why she didnt get one in the beginning. Her gift is bringing the family back together hence why she didnt get one in the beginning bc they family was “fine” or “perfect” so she couldnt use her power but when the house lost its magic she was the only one to bring the family/house back together. You can also say shes the reincarnation of Pedro (abuelas husband). I mean she is like the next abuela/pedro/house owner.
Encanto is SUCH a beautiful movie! I saw it in theaters and then again with my whole family on Christmas Eve. I like that Mirabel didn't get a "gift" in the end, as well. You don't need special magic powers to be special or useful. The fan theory is actually that she's meant to be Abuela's successor, since just like how Abuela received a Miracle 50 years before, Mirabel was the one to bring the Miracle back at the end. Mirabel has empathy. She brings everyone together and watches over the magic. That's who she is, and she doesn't need a gift to do that. It's just her being her, and I think it's perfect.
I like how she knows nothing about this movie but she gets all her predictions right 😂
Came to the comments to say exactly this. I love to see the blind reactions for their ideas what could happen. But she knew exactly what happened. So it was a little bit boring for me.
I'm a new subscriber and right now I'm sick so I decided to watch you and I started to smile the moment I saw you ❤
Turns out its period cramps so, Don't worry! ^^
Bruno doesnt need a ritual, he needs a calm quiet area, and that "ritual" is just Brunos way of finding peace
5:45 The children are very perceptive, my guess is that Antonio noticed the subtle treatment that Mirabel being different receives from the family, like, in a corner. That's why he's nervous about the whole thing, he's afraid of ending up in that place.
23:05 The ritual is something he developed over time to attract luck hoping for a good outcome. Bruno became superstitious after all that happened. Sand and an open space is all he needs for his visions. It is curious that it's sand that he uses because sand when heats it becomes glass, similar to those green rectangles.
I love your reaction I was sobbing and laughing with you.
I can't believe I'm just now watching your reaction. I absolutely ADORE this movie. It's really connected to issues of self-worth and interfamilial relationships, and it makes me cry every time I see it.
Abuela's backstory never fails to hit me where it hurts. Imagine having seemingly anything one would want. A loving family, a house, a life partner, newborn babies (that one's not too necessary, but I'm making broad generalisations). Then something threatens not only your life, but the life of those you love. Imagine the fear. The pain. Imagine losing your home and the love of your life almost at the same time. Imagine then the burden of keeping a whole community safe with seemingly no one there to help you.
I'm kinda like Isabela in a way. I learned to read and write early and was better behaved than my older sister, plus my mother had a miscarriage before me, so I was soon the golden child. "Smart", good-natured, well-behaved, and eager to please my parents. But my parents, especially my mother, had very specific expectations for who and how I had to be. It's gotten harder to be myself around them because people change, I've changed, and I keep figuring things about myself, and they are not the type to be accepting of what I've figured out. Which makes me feel a bit like Bruno. Because my family won't be okay with who I really am, but I still love my family. And I wish one day they maybe see that who I am isn't perfect, but it's me (I really relate to Isabela in this aspect). And that I'm still their child, no matter what I wear or who I love or what my gender is or what mental disabilities I have. Meanwhile, I'm stuck feeling like Mirabel in the second song. I would do ANYTHING to make my family proud, but some things are just out of my capabilities, things I don't control. I wish someday I will have them accept me as they do Mirabel in the last song.
I feel like Abuela wasn't really a " villain " per say. As she explained she just wanted to make sure everything was perfect so she didn't have to go through loss again. She witnessed losing her husband, losing her son, her granddaughter losing her door. She wanted everything to be perfect but in the end she realized that you don't have to be perfect and I love that. Disney has done such an amazing job with the messages in all these movies. Big Hero 6 talked about loss and how you can let it consume you or learn to rely on those around you and let them help you move on. Luca talked about parental abandonment and acceptance and the ability to find new family in the people around you. And now Encanto talks about how everyone has a gift or something that makes them special but there's no reason to be perfect and it's okay to have flaws.
I feel like you are one of the first people I've seen that understands the point of the movie! Mirabel didn't receive a gift bc if she had one, she wouldn't have been able to see or help the family realize that they're losing sight of what gave them the miracle in the first place (the bond and love for family).
I was sobbing hard the first time I Watched encanto, but now every time I see parts of the film tears are coming of
This movie is absolutely incredible. If you're remotely familiar with Colombian history, you'll be aware from the clues that Abuelo Pedro was killed brutally right in front of Abuela Alma and their three babies. This hits DEEP for anyone of Colombian heritage, and I commend Disney for handling it as well as they did - with great honour, and in a way that felt respectful to older viewers, but without being traumatic to the little ones.
Now that Disney has been brave enough to confront heavy themes such as this in Colombia, I really hope they may someday take on something similar about an Irish family during British occupation. I know it's over now and our relationship with Britain is much better, but as an Irish woman I still see how events as recent as the Troubles affect those around me. There were monsters and angels on both sides, and I would love to see how Disney might interpet this. I believe we Irish could really do with something like this movie, as it would allow us to feel seen by the world, and to heal properly.
Props to Disney and the entire team behind this movie. It may just be my new favourite Disney movie actually!
She said, "she has to fix the bond!" I totally expected her to say "like in Brave!"
She really said charmed
Missed opportunity, my bad😩 I’m rewatching the original charmed so it’s fresh in my mind
“Mend the bond torn by pride!” I see the similarities!😂
Well this is the first time one of your reactions was recommended to me and I love this movie
Welcome to the channel!✨
I just love in the song ‘all of you’ when Bruno goes “we need a door📈nob📉”
The colors in this movie, the music, the fact that they used a Colombian cast and did their research This is absolutely one of the most beautiful movies and the story is so heart-wrenchingly moving and beautiful
Yes because the usually cast white people
@@itsflorence5529yeah Disney has a real problem with casting white people for poc roles
@@gordonramsayslambsauce Colombians aren't a race of people lmao they're white black mestizo asian etc, you can even see the diversity in the movie with Pepa being white with reddish hair and light eyes, Julieta and Bruno being darker, and all of the cousins and sisters being different shades. You can see this in the townspeople as well
Monica: I hope nothing bad happens to the house.
Me who has finished watching Encanto: Oh boy....
Honestly, seeing how casita was the only one to really care for and look after Mirabel (while she was snubbed constantly by her family), it just makes the houses “death” more heartbreaking. Because while the family is comforting each other, Mirabel is left all alone to mourn the one part of her family who loved her unconditionally.
idk i wouldnt go so far as to say no one cared about her like they definitely loved her
HUH?? Her whole family absolutely loved her unconditionally lmao. They literally never snubbed her at all. Her parents n bruno also showed a lot of love and care too like did you miss the ENTIRE movie
i will not stand for this julieta and agustín erasure. julieta is so caring and im pretty sure agustín would hide a body for any of his daughters LMAO
Did you even watch the movie? Other than Abuela and Isabela, everyone else in the family was caring towards Mirabel. How did you even come to that conclusion
@@Sagacypher no matter what reason she has, abuela treated mirable like shit when she didn't get her gift.
I literally can't stop watching this movie lol
X2
Me neither
2 days ago was my 7th time😭
@@holajadee633 wowww and i thought 3 times was a lot of times 😭
I watched so many reactions xD
I feel like not enough people really notice the significance of how the house was saving them despite the fact that it was literally falling apart. Casita is MVP of the movie
"I hope nothing bad happens to the house" famous last words
That didn't age well-
I have a theory that the upbeat songs makes you emotional because of the animation. They did such a great job bringing out the emotions on their expressions and in their VOICES. Like in Luisa's song, her voice almost breaks and you can see the desperation to be heard in her expression, or in abuela's flashback (although it's not an upbeat song) when she loses her love, the heartbreak in her expression is so beautifully animated.
1:41 this is me when I watch the start of any Disney movie, your awesome for posting this ily!
This movie is a hit at our house. My kids been doing his version of Salsa all wkd. 😂🤣. That soundtrack slapped yo. This needs to be a Broadway show.
I am happy you enjoyed Colombian music!
@@FroBoy696 as soon as it starts playing. My son starts doing things with his hips 😂🤣
I guess it's always ment to be a musical.
Oh wow yes what an awesome stage musical this could be!!
Felix and pepa had the moves too ! 😂💃🏽🕺🏾
i’d like to point out after abuelo died abuela put on a black shawl (for mourning) and she always wore it around the town but then after they lost the house and rebuilt her relationship with everyone she stopped wearing it 💕
Easily my favorite Disney film with every single song being a banger. Also, I loved how razor sharp you were with your predictions. Thanks for this.
She doesn’t have magic,
She is the magic.
True
yasss QUEEEENN
Exactly
Yep,she is the heart of all of the magic,but she dosent quite know it till later on in the movie x
"The miracle is you - not some gift, just You."
I like how you picked up on Mirabel's true gift so early on, that she's intrinsically connected to the magic of the house itself, and the whole house is technically her "room". That's why the magic came back at the end, even without the candle: because the candle isn't _needed_ anymore, Mirabel is the new embodiment of the magic. _That_ was her gift.
Oh wow, I hadn't realized until I watched your video that the verse Abuela sings in the opening number is sung very very close to the same tune as Dos Oruguitas later in the film - an early nod to how much the grandma is mired in the trauma of her past. Daaaaang.
I feel like it needs to get a series, not a sequel. Another movie wouldn’t be enough imo cuz there’s so much more to explore with the Madrigals and fans wants to know more about the other members of the family like Dolores, Bruno and Camilo (all the members ofc but they are fan favorites). The whole family showed their differences in their personality and gifts but not as much since the movie was focused on Mirabel and I would love to see them more.
I love watching others react and express their thoughts. I never realized that young Abuela and Isabela look so much alike and that the vision could have been pointing to Abuela as she needed to get back to the roots and remember who the gifts are for. But yeah, I agree that her door was always meant to be the front door. The gift sensed that Mirabel would be good for the role of the future candle holder and that's why she didn't get her door until Abuela had been taught that she was hurting the family with her perfect version of what her family should be. Not seeing that everyone was slowly getting crushed under the pressure ans how unhappy they truly were. I also think that since Isabela looks so much like young Abuela, that's why she projected the need to be perfect so heavily on Isabela. Abuela wanted her to be the perfect version of herself.
“It’s like Charmed :D!”
Me: *has been struck by powerful flashbacks*
OH MY GOD! I hadn’t heard about that show in YEARS!
When I first watched the movie I was super scared she was just gonna randomly get a gift without any "logic". I'm so glad she just took over what her grandma had which is protecting the house and thus the family and miracle. It sticks to the lore and is just an overall satisfying answer imo, though I bet many missed it.
stories where the main character is seen as kind of useless or in the way by their family and constantly feeling like they're doing or saying the wrong thing really hit home for me, so i related to mirabel a lot in that sense, and i was crying pretty early on in the movie which is unusual for me, aha.
I so love this movie. Everyone in this movie have their different characters, and every screens all have connections with what happened before.I think magic is equal to family and their connection.So love this movie I have already watched this fourth.The last thing I want to tell is that Camilo is so cute!!!!!!He is my favorite.
Glad I wasn’t the only one who was a sobbing fest during this movie. 😂
Every time I rewatch I cry earlier and earlier in the movie😭
It’s Isabela she’s hugging in the vision. At the end of “What Else Can I Do?” they hug and the cracks in casita repair. However it’s all negated by Abuela coming in and blaming Mirabel for everything.
Also Abuelo is dead. That’s what happened in the flashback. He realised they weren’t going to be able to escape so he stayed and held them off so his family could escape.
"I hope nothing bad happens to the house"
Every viewer: O_O
She saved the miracle when she hugged isabella because she made her entire family happy because luisa and isabella werent happy so she made them happy by having a talk and a hug and when her family is happy the miracle keeps going but abuela made them sad again so the miracle was in trouble
I also felt a ton of emotions to casita itself and it broke me and i started crying when it died 😭
Casita had my heart straight from the beginning🥺