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phoenixlionme · 2 years

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Reminders of Encanto - BEWARE OF MAJOR SPOILERS

1. I know I made an announcement prior to Encanto premiere that Alma TOLD Mirabel not to come to Antonio’s gathering. But after seeing the movie, I can happily say that said info was wrong. Alma specifically told Mirabel that she shouldn’t HELP with preparing for Antonio’s ceremony but NEVER she couldn’t wrong. I was wrong and I’m happy that I was.

2. I also remembered seeing the Madrigals take a family picture without Mirabel (as seen in the official trailer). Yes, that was a painful moment of Mirabel. But in context, the family (including Alma) DID NOT tell her to not come. It was just in the heat of the moment. At worst, it was a moment of insensitivity but it’s not something worth demonizing them. They aren’t one-dimensional bad people, they’re complex, well-rounded people who make mistakes. And as I go on in the third point, you’ll see they DO LOVE Mirabel.

3. Yes, I also made a thorough analysis of Mirabel’s isolation from her family. And was right on a few of those except for the Alma thing I mentioned in the previous point. When I watched the movie, I noticed that no one ACTIVELY excluded Mirabel. Were they surprised when she walked with Antonio to his room? Yes. But they were just that: Surprised (sans Isabela who looked annoyed). They were all worried about her when she was still inside the crumbling Casita. They all told her to get out and leave the dwindling candle. And they actively searched for her when she ran away afterwards. And I DON’T want to hear or see people demonizing her parents. They aren’t perfect but they also supported and validated her as well as defend her from Alma’s harsh treatment. Also, while the family (especially Alma and Pepa) were freaked out when they saw Bruno’s vision of Mirabel, NONE of them made a suggestion like exiling her or kicking her out.

4. I’ve seen a lot people state Alma “got off too quickly with just an apology”. And I’m like, “Seriously? Did you guys watch the same movie as I did?” I am NOT excusing Alma for her actions, especially towards Mirabel, but she’s NOT a flat villain, she’s a complex and nuanced woman. She did was she thought was best for her family at the time. Something she had to do after losing her original home and husband at a young age. She made mistakes. She said and did hurtful things. She also saw the errors of her ways. She SEARCHED for Mirabel. Found her granddaughter and APOLOGIZED for her actions. And while Alma explained her reasons, she also noted how she gradually hurt her family, therefore she doesn’t excuse her actions. Alma GREW. I mean, seriously why do fandoms have to be ridiculous. Why do some of you have to be like, “OMG. An apology won’t fix anything”. Well you know what? It’s a 99 minute movie, not a TV series so they can’t go into that kind of growth. Plus, Alma admitting her mistakes and apologizing is A GOOD THING.

5. Bruno wasn’t kicked out of Casita. He willingly left because he wanted to protect Mirabel from being scapegoated as a child.

6. I have heard there’s some discourse on Pepa’s song about Bruno but here’s the thing: She was made at him for accidentally ruining her wedding but she NEVER said she stopped loving him. And when they plus Julieta finally reunite, it was Pepa who hugged him first (Julieta wasn’t far behind though) and gladly welcomed him back. I DO think we could’ve had a scene were Pepa explains that the ACTUAL reason she doesn’t want to talk about Bruno is because she misses him too much and uses the whole wedding thing to cover it up.

7. Like the above point, Pepa and Bruno’s relationship mirrors Mirabel and Isabela’s. And I some people say Isabela should’ve apologized. And I’ll be honest: I DO think they missed an opportunity for Isabela to reveal that she envies Mirabel for not having to meet such high expectations and is doted on by their parents (they love all their daughters equally it’s just because of a combo of Mirabel being the youngest and Alma being hardest on her). That would’ve been great to see but I think even if she DID apologize, the fandom would have the SAME TIRED REACTION to when Alma actually apologized for the same dumb reason. Also, Mirabel calls out Isabela on her behavior before they reconcile and while I think they missed a chance, I’m still happy.

8. My take on the family not defending Mirabel from Alma’s accusations: I’m happy they went this route. Because it’s Mirabel calling out her grandmother’s behavior, something you wouldn’t see her doing at the beginning. The confrontation was ALL about Alma and Mirabel and the escalating tension between them.

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honourablejester · 2 years

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I’m just watching Encanto (well, pieces of it) and I have a lot of thoughts on it. Thoughts that kind of started from Isabela and her awesome funky cactus jungle when she finally lets go, but then went … elsewhere. Heh:

First, though. I genuinely do love Isabela’s ‘let it go’ scene so much. I love that she gets fully angry, and embraces her anger, and has her powers react to her anger, and the first thing it produces is this (kind of adorable) lopsided spiky cactus, and she’s knocked out of her anger immediately just from the wonder of this tiny imperfect angry little thing that she’s made. She’s just … awed. And then she runs with it, she realises that she can grow what she’s feeling, and by the end of this song she’s made a full-on funky almost alien-looking desert jungle biome around the house, full of spiky shapes and loud colours, reds and purples and blues, bright yellows and greens.

I just love the way she went with it. She doesn’t want just ‘pretty and perfect’ anymore, she never did, what she wants is nearly a whole other world, full of danger and exploration, spiky things and blue travelling vines and clouds of messy colour exploding everywhere. She wants things that are lopsided and spiky and carnivorous and strangling and messy and loud. She doesn’t want to be a garden, she wants to be a jungle. Well, a verdant spiky desert jungle, anyway.

I love the little moment where she first gets splashed with the yellow pollen, gets it all over her dress and her picture-perfect appearance, and she has a little moment of terror at allowing her image to be broken, but then she looks at Mirabel and her sister is all ‘you go girl!’ and she just lets herself get absolutely messed up, green streaks in her hair, clouds of pollen everywhere, her dress nearly blackened and covered in splotches of colour. And she never lets go of that, despite everything that promptly (and literally) falls down around their ears. She decides she’s going to keep it. Let the marriage happen to someone else, the person who wanted it, she’s going to grow cacti and wear splotchy dresses and occasionally grow alien gardens up the nearest wall.

I just … I love that it was a cactus, and then that she embraces the full weird end of what plants can look like and be, makes this whole other funky biome around herself.

And I love that Mirabel starts out this song trying to force the hug moment, playing along purely for her own reasons and aims, and then she actually realises how much Isabela means it, how desperately important it is to her and how much playing the ‘perfect granddaughter’ has squashed and hurt her over the years, and she starts supporting her sister for real and out of genuine love and excitement, and that’s when the hug happens. For real. Out of real emotion. Because Mirabel helped her sister for real, out of real love and excitement, and enjoyed the song and her sister’s happiness and exploration of her powers just for their own sake, and that’s what healed the family. Doing things for real and for each other, not for the image or for the ‘protection of the family’. Like, Mirabel didn’t realise it, but she was nearly doing an Abuela on it, she was playing-acting at being family for the sake of preserving the idea of family, going through the motions of the hug not because she loved Isabela but because she thought that’s what the prophecy/magic wanted. But then she realises Isabela is really hurt, and this thing brings Isabela real joy, and she goes all in immediately, understanding and supporting her, and the magic starts to return. Because it was born out of love originally, and that’s all it really needed to come back. Not duty or image or good works, but just loving and enjoying and celebrating someone you love, as spiky as they might happen to be.

And that’s why it was Isabela & Mirabel that were the starting-point for the breaking-and-remaking, why the prophecy pointed to them, because between them they’re a perfect microcosm of Abuela Alma and her trauma and her trickle-down mistakes over the years. Isabela is the product and mirror of Alma’s obsession with image and perfection and the trauma it secretly hides, and Mirabel, just for a moment, faced with Isabela-the-mirror-of-Abuela, the misplaced echo of everything she hated about the family, was exactly as ruthless and uncaring in trying to do what the magic wanted, regardless of Isabela’s feelings, as Alma has always been. But Mirabel overcomes it, and in doing so, and in the following fight, Mirabel shows Alma both what was wrong, and also how to fix it. Embrace your spiky family who can’t be what you want but love you anyway. Love them back, let them be themselves, and work from there.

And, I mean, there’s more to it than that, the hug also happened because Isabela, in that moment, when she let go of the terror and need for perfection, realised that Mirabel was awesome despite not being anything she or the family thought they wanted, that embracing Mirabel’s imperfection could also mean embracing her own, and even enjoying it. Together, as sisters. And that’s a mirror of Alma too, showing her how accepting Mirabel and Bruno and all her more-than-slightly broken family for who they were could also mean accepting herself, and her own mistakes, for what they were, and allowing everyone to heal from them. Letting go of the need for perfection let her realise that she, as much as anyone, had never been perfect, and that she’d hurt them by trying to be. There’s no point breaking yourself and everyone around you trying to be worthy of something that was given freely. Pedro gave his life freely. Alma can give her love freely. Her family doesn’t, and shouldn’t, have to earn it. And neither should she. He didn’t make his sacrifice so she’d be perfect. He made it so she, and their children, would be happy. And, you know, alive.

There’s also a link to Luisa as well, her and Mirabel and Alma are all obsessed and stressed and pressured by the need to protect the family too. Alma’s desperation to protect them as she couldn’t protect Pedro is echoed by Luisa’s desperation to protect them just because she’s strong and she can, but Luisa doesn’t know as viscerally what she needs to protect them from, because she never saw it herself. She just knows and fears that there’s something, some formless danger that’s lying in wait.

Alma bled down through all of them so much, but they never realised it, because she never explained why. Until it broke, and she had to, and she finally saw that all she’d been doing was replicating her own wounds on them, with none of them ever knowing why. But now she … now it’s already broken, except it isn’t, nowhere near as much as she feared, and she still has her family, and they can figure out how to grow around the fear now. The imperfections, her imperfections, didn’t kill them (they hadn’t killed Pedro either), even if they did badly damage them, and she finally has her second chance to help her family.

Sometimes you just need a spiky cactus to show you what you really are inside, is my point here, and accepting said spiky cactus helps you figure out how to grow around it. Mirabel, being Mirabel, is great at being other people’s spiky cactus, but she needed her family to be hers too, for her to realise that it was broken all the way up, and needed fixing from the ground up. She needed to realise that Isabela wasn’t just a perfect enviable figure, that Alma wasn’t just a rigid old bitch, that she herself wasn’t as innocent as she hoped. They all needed help, and they all needed work.

(Some sidenotes, since apparently I’m rambling much more than I planned to anyway: Bruno is heart-breaking and adorable, Dolores is heart-breaking and adorable, both moms have excellent taste in men, Luisa needs so much help and protection and I love her, Camilo is a little shit but he’s also fantastic, and Antonio is way too smooth for a five-year-old, what the hell? Also, it’s kind of interesting how all Pepa and Felix’s children have perfect spying/infiltration gifts? Shapeshifter, superhearing, ability to spy/gossip through animals? What’s up with that? Like if you need something done, go to Julietta’s kids, if you need to know something, go to Pepa’s? Though, to be fair, Camilo was exactly as ready to brave a collapsing house as Isabela was, so getting-shit-done could be a general Madrigal thing. Also, credit to Agustin for being ride-or-die for his kids from the get-go. He and Pedro would have gotten on great if they’d been able to meet. I mean, all of them would. Same with Felix.

Also, I love how Agustin glomped Bruno as well as soon as he showed up. And I love how Pepa, who’s spent years since Bruno disappeared badmouthing him and clinging to her grudges, is the first person to tackle-glomp him the moment he shows up. I sort of wonder if she wanted him to have been ‘bad’ so she wouldn’t have to feel grief that he left? Not that that, you know, necessarily makes it better than he’s spent ten years listening to her badmouthing him around the whole goddamn town, but like I said. Everyone in this family needs some work. Heh)

I enjoyed this movie a lot. Like, a lot a lot. Heh.

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themountainsays · 2 years

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You know, through the movie I sorta interpreted Isabela as pretty childish and immature in the way she treats Mirabel, like bitch you're 22 why do you bully the 15 y.o so much lol. "Apologize for ruining my life"??? She just seems sadistic and juvenile for no reason. People have mentioned she acts more like an entitled younger sibling while Luisa occupies the stereotypical older sister role (with Mirabel resembling the overlooked middle child), and I can see that because truly, at 22 you gotta be less petty, especially if your whole deal is being "Perfect" and "keeping the family happy". Smacking your 15 y.o sister in the face with flowers is just silly lol.

It's not until Mirabel calls her selfish that you see another side of her, and find out she's been sacrificing EVERYTHING, from her happiness and future, to her individuality, personal expression and bodily autonomy just to please her grandmother and present a picture of herself that would keep her family content. And I still think she acts childish towards Mirabel, but there's this whole other layer as well, right? She's also responsible and self-sacrificial and undeniably more adult than her sisters. She's the one sacrificing the most. She has a whole song about wanting to find a personality of her own and not knowing what it may be because she's sacrificed even that. And she KNOWS that. She knows exactly what she's doing and why and still makes that same painful decision to put her own needs and desires aside for the sake of her family.

I just find that very interesting.

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i'm watching encanto atm. my heart breaks for mirabel i'm literally sobbing. my poor lil meow meow come here lemme give u a warm hug 😞😞

9 notes • Posted 2021-12-29 06:00:44 GMT

no because mirabel story actually makes me so sad, she was totally excluded from her family for being the only grandchild without powers, for somehow being less for something she couldn't control. she couldn't even stand with her family during ceremonies because she was ruining the "picture perfect" Abuela was trying to make, and yet she did everything in her power to save the powers of her family, something she always wishes to had to be seen and make them proud, and found in her heart to forgive her grandma after all the unfair treatment she went through. oh mirabel my poor meow meow. i just wanna hug her so bad 😞

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10 notes • Posted 2021-12-12 15:52:22 GMT

encanto had me bawling so hard like i literally have to pause several times while watching it to collect myself. mirabel, luisa and isabela my poor meow meows come here lemme give guys u a hug 😞

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happiness left such a impact on me. now I'm left with withdrawal symptoms and struggling to find a kdrama to watch that would keep me interested : (( watch me make obs my whole personality now, i need some comforting and that drama is the epitome of that bc right now i feel so empty without happiness. withdrawal issues are going to be the reason of my death someday

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