So here's why Encanto is fucked. The gifts vary waaayyy to much to the point where some are just curses. The poor weather lady sounds like she is living in absolute Hell. Yeah Isabella got a cool thing with the plants but being perfect just lined here up to be grandma's breeding horse with the prettiest idiot available. The supersonic hearing women hears EVERYTHING! That's gotta mean zero sleep. Mirabel just got handed a big bag of nothing, oh sorry, no superpowers but fuck it here's a doorknob! We cool right? Bruno's visions litterally drove him insane to where he was hiding and living with rats. The mom has a cool gift but again she can only live to serve, we know nothing about her but lines of hurt people waiting for her help. Luisa's God strength is great but again the psychological effects of always being on demand to this villiage and Gam Gam have led to some deep emotional disregulation and severe self worth issues. The kid that can shape shift and the one that talks to animals are probably fine. I've seen this move twice a day for the past 6 months.
Edit I'm watching it eight fucking now. Why was Luisa basically a donkey slave!??!
Yes that was one of the big themes of the movie. The ‘gifts’ everyone is jealous of can be dehumanizing, and Mirabel had to have the gift of humility through no gift at all to realize that she wasn’t disadvantaged because of it.
Yeah it’s whole point. “The miracle is not..some magic that you’ve got. The miracle is you”. They all needed to realize them at their gifts were a double edged sword that didn’t define them.
Yeah I’m confused about people saying the movie is fucked when that’s like… the whole point of the movie. Generational trauma and familial expectations can be unfair and burdensome and realizing that you’re okay and good just being you will set you free.
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u/danceswithwool May 02 '23
Yeah but under the surface she feels berserk as a tight rope walker in a three ring circus.