He doesn't need it anymore, all he wants is to be a part of the family again, no ostracization, no weird looks. Yes, he deserved an apology, but after 12 years he doesn't care about that, just about his familys wellbeing, and that makes him a better character imo.

Yeah that's what kinda felt off for me about the movie. Abuela fully ostracised her son and to an extent her granddaughter, then just was like oh my bad guess that wasn't the right thing to do after all and everyone lived happily ever after. I can see Mirabel forgiving Abuela that easily but Bruno? Idk he deserved more than a kiss on the cheek. Him returning home after 12 years needed to be a bigger emotional impact then it was imo. Other than that I liked the movie

@afreen yeah thats the one part that felt the most off to me. Like my man did literally nothing wrong what do you have to apologize for

@afreen But i think he should apologize to the Pepa because he said it would cause a hurricane so he gave Pepa anxiety so...

@@jaimshae5538 actually bruno left on his own in fear that everyone would hate maribel and doesnt want her to go throught what he felt of being useless, if anything i dont think abuela knew for all anyone knew he left and betrayed them, abuela was probably devastated as the son she once held in her arms while seeing her husband brutally decapitated and slaughter, shes not a bad grandma she just wanted the best from everyone and put them under more than stress tha she should off but a whole town looks up to her, anything bad that happens would be blamed on her, she tries hard to make things better for her family

And the second step is their’s to take, because they need to realize the err of their ways and take steps to fix it, as well as apologizing for what they have done

Yeah the scene where Mirabel calls out Abuela was the most satisfying part of the movie for me. I completely understand where the Grandma is coming from, but that doesn't give her the right to blame Mirabel for the family problems and pressure everyone into perfection.

This is why the fight scene between them was my favorite (my sister thought I was weird for it when she asked me my favorite scene) because it’s the moment in the movie where things were actually going to start getting better for the Madrigals. After all, sometimes things go bad before they can get better.

I was soooo thrown when she not only called her out and stood for her family, but was blown away when Abuela admitted her mistake and APOLOGIZED like *bRO-*

In between steps 1&2 is talking and listening. A lot of talking and listening.

What stuffed animal scene?

@@Gadget-Walkmen Where they're under the bed and Mirabel gives him the stuffed tiger she made for him

@@laura-ni8ym oh yeah, that was nice.

their first scene together, she hypes him up for the gift, insisting it'll be awesome and it's impossible for him to not get one. That felt very reckless to me, since he very well could have not gotten one. She perpetuated the same problem as her family by insisting that it will work out and be great.

How did he have so much character and dimension? His only two traits were he was nervous about the ceromony and he loved his cousin

the matriarch was definitely a villain imo. She manipulated and controlled the whole family, lied to their faces in front of the whole village, and sacrificed their happiness for stability. She is the villain who gets away with it by saying sorry at the end

@@jeepersmcgee3466 no but nice opinion

@@jeepersmcgee3466 No.

HOOOGGG RIDERRR

Sigh, can't really relate with this sentiment. Oh, I'm not arguing or anything. But one of my favorite parts of a movie is a good villain, fleshed out human villain.

SEVEN FOOT FRAME RATS ALONG HIS BACK 😫

@@nat9049 WHEN HE CALLS YOUR NAME IT ALL FADES TO BLACK

@@cozmo_Comet YEAH, HE SEES YOUR DREAMS

@@blumenschweif AND FEASTS ON YOUR SCREAMS

@@searen111 WE DONT TALK ABOUT BRUNO NO NO NO

Missed opportunity to say, “Well yes , but actually no, no, no”

@@hf.1906 SHOOT I DID

@@hf.1906 well yes, but actual nooooooooooooo IT WAS MY-

I'll agree in that "We dont talk about Bruno" is tiers above every other song in the film. The rest actually is just okay.

@@xXEPIKgamerXx and luisas song

Couldn't agree more! It's a very inviting movie!

I'd recently been complaining about movies and TV series not having to sit down and actually think of a plot that can be done on a limited set then saw this and it's just so important to have some stories told in a set area. It makes things feel closer to home and more personal.

For me I think the point of surface pressure being so out there is to really drive home how insanely pressured Luisa felt trying to meet expectations. Like if she didn't literally do the impossible (stop a ship from sinking, stop a tornado, etc) then she wasn't enough. Also interpreted it as Luisa having a vivid imagination and using really crazy analogies. Would make sense since i believe the concept art for her room had a secret door that leads to an imaginative theme park.

@@JesykaL perhaps, it just felt out of place for me. If they were gonna do that for Luisa it felt like they should have done it for everyone. But I don’t know that’s up for interpretation

I think the "Surface Pressure" location switches were supposed to be metaphorical...???

how did i accidentally wrote "prequel" instead of "sequel"?! though, a prequel would also be interesting...

another movie would be better, the animated shows usually suck imo

@@anomalocariscanadensis4723 Did you watch the tangled series?

@@jajie-yl4hu didnt even know it existed

@@anomalocariscanadensis4723 Its good. Like, real good.

I WAS LOOKING FOR A COMMENT LIKE THIS

Now it just means you ✨seem✨ evil.

@@Minceishere Which goes hand-in-hand with the issue he talks about, where everyone always interprets him as an evil scary guy who mischievously makes awful prophecies come true, when he's really just telling them stuff that may or may not happen and that he has no influence on.

You made me realise that they chose the color because of the trope and how everyone saw him as bad and evil. Until you see that hes good.

It's either green magic, cuz jealous/greed associated color, or red

I also noticed that! She didn’t refute it, she just led the family onto reconstruction, it was a nice touch

They learned thier lesson after wandavision

You also like Arcane I see

yeah!! mirabel doesn’t refute the fact that alma’s impossibly high expectations on everybody were what broke the family, but she does tell her that she appreciates her for all she’s done and all she’s been through to protect everyone. AND she tells her that they can still fix it. she’s never absolved of any blame, but she’s still seen as sympathetic and fixes her mistakes. it’s so refreshing to see, especially in a disney movie

Just watched it and during the scene, I was really hoping Mirabel didn’t say that. And was happy when she didn’t.

Gotta love it when a character sacrifices himswlf for no reason at all, and the small amount of time that he might have actually won them was lost because she was sitting still

Dos Oruguitas is like, one of the best songs from that movie. The flashback was sad enough, but that song in the background really just squeezed some tears out of me-

That scene where she's just sitting on the floor in the dark with her kids makes my eyes water ever time. You can feel how numb she's become, her eyes are totally glazed over. And then it transitions to her walking and not acknowledging Mirabel, Bruno, Isabela or Luisa, even though they're all trying their absolute best

When I rewatched the movie I bawled my eyes out at that scene

@Noah Gutierrez i mean yea i would cry but also run

Agreed. It just has the most raw power.

You can tell the songs in this movie are great since everyone has different views on which song is best. I definitely think that "waiting on a miracle" is a great song, and it does probably have the best setup. Personally, I'd say "surface pressure" is my favourite, also closely followed by "we don't talk about Bruno", but it's probably mostly because of my taste in music and the fact that I really like pop.

What else can I do and Dos Oruguitas for me. All of You comes close and Surface Pressure but those songs bitter sweetly hurt me at this stage of my life so it's a bit hard to look on them.

Waiting on a Miracle is my favorite too

Songs fucking suck. Movie fucking sucks.

yeah im surprised its not pointed out more!!

Yeah. The whole sequence in the beginning with the little cousin’s coming of age ceremony really does a good job at showing how supportive Mirabel tries to be for her family, while also struggling with her own self-worth. She’s not angry or bitter at him for getting a special ability, but it still hurts.

i felt so hearbroken for her when they didn't even think to include her in the family picture at the beginning for the ceremony

She's envious, not jealous, yes. Jealousy is the fear of losing something you have, envy is the desire to have something someone else has - she wants a gift, but she doesn't begrudge her family for having theirs.

O.o

I agree, capybaras are the best

Ok I pull up

Hop out at the after party

You and all your friends, yeah

they love to get naughty

“And a possibly shitty sequel” I hope the heck not, we’ve had enough of those

I swear if Disney butchered these characters in a sequel like they did with Wreck-It Ralph I'll cry :(((

@@THE_5050 My worst nightmare would be if Disney does what they did to Frozen 2, where they were like "wHeRe dUz Da mAgIC cOMe fRoM" instead of focusing on the actual interesting characters. The magic of Encanto needs to remain a mystery, the interpretation is what makes it so effective as a metaphor for the family's love for each other. I'm just imagining if they were like "Pedro was the last of a long line of candle-making wizards, and oH nOeS a twist villain has an eViL candle that will dEsTrOy wOrLD"🤣 ... Okay I doubt it'd be THAT bad, but I have trust issues with Disney.

We haven't gotten a sequel for Moana yet, so we can hope. Also, has anyone else realized that Disney's been experimenting more? I feel like Frozen 2 and Moana have been both animating experiments but story experiments, because both are more family centered, don't really have a villian, and have similar animating tricks. (Maui and Camilo both shapeshift, most diverse characters, ect.)

@@schleepy6362 wasn't the source of the powers explained?

Hard agree! There's a lot of cultural specific nuance even to the type of expectation they get. Julieta, acting as the eldest child, being made to serve others through domestic labor (noticeably, food). Isabela's arranged marriage and her maybe having many children being seen as a good thing. Dolores being the chismosa (gossiper) and also how it relates to her having the future of a solterona (old maid?). Generational trauma is widespread throughout the globe, but some particularities of this movie mark its latino-ness, more specifically Colombia-ness.

I'm Hispanic from both sides and I SEE almost all the adults in my life remind me of Alma. My aunts (mostly) and like one of my uncles and my grandma (all from my maternal side) are controlling not in the aspect of just like "oh do well in grades" but in LIFE. You have to have an outgoing personality (buT not enough to stand up for yourself cause that goes against them), you have to be super intelligent, and also pretty. In my dad's side of the family you *have* to be pretty or you won't be a favourite. Like you'd still be loved but being pretty makes you a favourite. My mom told me that when my dad was younger my grandma pressured my dad get a nose job and even paid for it so he'd do it. and that same grandma would also rip her face out of photos that didn't look flattering.

true but i like how not only can hispanic people can relate, but also other ppl despite not sharing our culture. pretty cool how it reached so many people bc of its subtlety in portraying colombian culture

It speaks culturally to a lot of Asian cultures as well! There are definitely layers of cultural significance that I really appreciated with personal experience

Ohh I see

I legit have a theory that her “gift” is related to the _Casita_ in some way, idk.

I think Mirabel actually had a gift. She had a connection to the Casita that correlated to her relationship with the rest of the family. She's the only character shown talking to and understanding the Casita, like how Antonio is the only one understanding the animals. The cracks appeared in moments Mirabel's relationship to the rest of the family were threatened, like when she felt sidelined by Antonio getting a Gift or when Abuela confronted her after Isabela's song. When she tried to open the door and it disappeared, she didn't get a special room because her "room" was the Casita itself. And she also restored the miracle and the Gifts by using the doorknob after repairing her relationship with her Abuela and her family and working together to restore the Casita. I think in a sense this is like how Abuela's "gift" is to guard the miracle, they just didn't understand Mirabel because honestly they have no idea how the miracle even works.

I think that in the simple words, Mirabel will take on Abuela legacy - Abuela also didn't has gift as her children have, she is like the guardian of magic in casita. She's taking care of maintaining family relationships which stabilize the magic, and so will be Mirabel later. You can see that Mirabel already has some sort of control over the casita's power, only when she is feeling really outcast, the cracks appear (even if other family members also have troubled hearts - bruno left, isabella doing everything against herself but still no cracks, mirabel got some bad angst with her grandma and boom)

I really was routing for her that since she was not gifted, so she gets sick and tired of not being good enough and eventually become a villain, then she did had a gift which was destroying. And killing her entire family. I really was expecting the part where she told the grandma "I'm really not good enough for you, am I? No matter how hard I tried" I was expecting her to get out of all control and end up destroying everything and kill everybody. Of course that wouldn't happen, but IMAGINE.

@@snickbiordking5748 There are two types of people

the abuela is kind of the the twist villain if you think about it, she's just not that obvious. she's more human than a villain character but definitely one of the embodying antagonist

@@personallstrrcks I wouldn’t say that. I could tell Abuela was going to be the antagonist by comparing how she was at the prologue with young mirabel compared to how she acted towards her in the scenes of the first act. It’s obvious she was going to be the catalyst of the climax and main issue of the film so I wouldn’t say it was a twist at all

@@personallstrrcks I wouldn't call Abuela the villain

@@personallstrrcks Villain. No. She was an unintentional villain. A grandparent that expected a bit much from her children and grandchildren. She didn't mean anything bad, her prioirites were just a bit odd.

@@personallstrrcks I think the word you’re thinking of is antagonist. Not villain. The antagonist goes against the protagonist but that doesn’t make them evil. Sometimes they can even be right in some cases. So yes, Abuela Alma would fit into the antagonist role.

Fun fact: 1 of the directors also did Tangled. When I found that out it explained a lot to me.

meanwhile it's the only disney movie i haven't cried in lmao

@@Cosmiichu I have never cried to any Disney movie

@@Cosmiichuchicken little made you cry?💀

The power of SONG and DANCE

Oh no, alien musical zombies!

when she starts singing about rebuilding the house, her family's facial expressions are amazing

@@tisthecat the guy who doesn't like musicals reference??

hate to be that person but it's mirabel

Yes, it's great! The only other 'disney' movie I've seen anything like that is Monsters University, which being a prequel did not get the attention it deserved.

A lesson that need to be told much more often nowadays. Cause we humans have borders, have things we can't do.

@@thekitkatlizard8661 Immediately what I thought. Mike had to live with the fact he'd never achieve his dream due to what he was.

you're making me realize that encanto can be seen as a metaphor for disability

@@thekitkatlizard8661 princess and the frog

Spoiler!!! 50 yr old rat man in the walls?? Sign me up.

what character is he talking about?

Ikr? Like I'm glad that character is popular and loved by many because he definitely deserves it

@T-Army cause of the song

What character was he talking about?

I had to pause the film when she said 'with me in the nursery' because it just beggared belief and I needed to shout swear words at the screen. I spent so much time resenting Mirabel's family for how ostracised they made her. It was such a sad moment!

@@stephr2980 To play devil’s advocate They weren’t the ones who would give her a room the house does that. And her not being in the picture could just be because she didn’t go over to the area to take the picture she just stood where she was and no one noticed since the family is huge

@@Wildcard-Jack-47 yes but the family could have built another room or repurposed one, or partitioned the nursery. She's still in the shared nursery. There's only so much casita is responsible for here. Not once did anyone think well, miracle or not she's growing up and it would be nice to give her a space she can make her own regardless?? That's what angered me. I don't think the house not providing a miracle AND room for Mirabel means her parents couldn't even figure out a way to soften the blow and help her feel seen as an individual as simple as providing her with a room. There was a whole village of people they constantly helped, so surely if the family lacked building skills they could have asked the villagers.

@@stephr2980 if the building wouldn’t just make her a room why would they be able to build one it would just stop them it shows constantly that it can move them around so it’s not it’s defenseless

@@Wildcard-Jack-47 why would the house do that when it's shown to help Mirabel around all the time? But it does obey Abuela's commands as well. So it never occurred to Abuela to say 'Casita, gift or no gift, can you split the nursery to give Mirabel her own space at least?'. And Casita accommodated Bruno in its walls - he had his entire other room he made, while everyone thought he was gone. Yet the whole family couldn't come up with a 'room' for Mirabel. That still stinks.

!!

Best movie of the year? This movie was barely average

I genuinely don’t understand what would be good in your eyes if this near masterpiece is average

@@raddgaming1052 Masterpiece? The characters are hardly developed with a few notable exceptions, although said exceptions still were hardly developed, the music isn't good, it feels like basically nothing substantial happened throughout the whole movie, etc This movie is at most aggressively average, I don't see why anyone enjoys this film

@@crypt5129 ok party pooper crypt

I absolutely agree omg!

I agree!!! I would love to see more of their family since each person was so unique and interesting

Spoilers: They could also develope the abuela "redemption".

I desperately want a series, even if it isn’t great, Camilo was my favourite character and he didn’t get enough screen time 😭😭

there was a Tangled series?

Aren't they at this point since... the 90's I guess?

Its a really sad thing to think about.

and the soundtrack is really good tbh

Isn't Disney always like that?

@@tobigrantlbart yep

Honestly hard agree on that worry I thought why on Earth would they take us away from the magical house when it seems like such an interesting setting.

Yeah same, I was surprised to find that those adventure visuals were just fantasy song sequences.

I realize about 50 minutes in there wasn't going to be an adventure and got real nervous because it was clearly gonna focus on OTHER THINGS and I am not emotionally equipped to deal with OTHER THINGS. So I cried.

It has some of the most misleading marketing I've seen in years. Of course, the idea of Mirabel going on an adventure like that does sound fun, but there was no reason for the studio higherups to lie about it like this lol

I thought the same thing too, until I saw that Isa and Louisa had their own songs too, and I got confused-

Honestly I kept thinking her gift was that she could make everyone break into musical numbers to reveal something about themselves. I mean really think about it; throughout the entire film Mirabel would start the topic and when it got deeper, they break out into song. If anything, that’s her gift. Also yeah the grandma was a jerk. Reminded me too much of my grandma, ugh. Thank goodness Mirabel straightened her out

You just made me cry with your comment 😭😭😥

Ok, este es un punto realmente excelente

I am shocked with the fact that no one has mentioned that mirabel’s mother heals anyone with her food yet Mirabel wears glasses

@@juansebastianraadmeza9405 I'm wondering if her healing is only injuries and not born with problems?

Hold up, lets get surface pressure on there too. It deserves more respect.

Storm and Mystique: We'd like to have a word

Especially if the weather is controlled by emotions, imagine if Pepa had a mental breakdown, it would be horrible.

Healing things with food its not bad either, Julieta seens to be the least affected(?) between Pepa and Bruno, like Pepa has to supress her emotions and be sunny always, and no explication is needed to Bruno

I liked the touch where the hearing girl has to cover her ears whenever the fireworks went off.

I think the one main cool ability is the “perfect” girl’s gift, she can make any plant appear, whether a flower, cactus, or succulent, I think that’s pretty neat and can be useful at times

Even the details on their clothing. Like Mirable’s embroidery or Isabel’s ruffles. Like it was just so impressive to look at

Also the expressions and eye movements :'0

Wall-E did this 13 years beforehand.

if you're watching on a high def screen, you can literally see tiny hairs on the characters bodies. it's most obvious when there's light shining on the back of their necks. its insane.

Yes! I especially love the way the camera seems to float around during "We don't talk about Bruno", combined with the way the characters move it makes such an ominous yet incredibly fun sequence!

Disney has always released flops. Disney released 80 movies during the 1990s. They didn't just release Lion King, Aladdin, Toy Story, and Pocahontas during this decade. They also released Squanto, Operation Dumbo Drop, Rocketman, and My Favorite Martian. Not every creation is a roaring success. Disney's failure rate might be slightly higher than usual today, but they have never been able to go a year without a some failures.

I always hated when people said I was smart. I was like, _No, I'm really not -- I'm just killing myself trying to live up to half of what's expected of me, and now you're blowing off my efforts and using my work as a justification to pile on even more!_ Well-meaning people, but an absolutely insane way to grow up.

@@eyesofthecervino3366 Yeah. My family have accepted by now that I'm not really that good, but I think it's left scars on me. As in, I feel the need to please people, even the ones that don't really deserve that, even if by lying, even if by the cost of my own comfort. And making mistakes still makes me feel _terrible._

I dunno... I would rather be like that then always viewed as a nobody who have nothing he realy excels.

@@Acacius1992 In the short term that may be true. In the long term, you're free to decide what matters to you, and then work on getting better at things you actually enjoy -- which, even if you're never the _best,_ the fact that you're comfortably, authentically yourself is profound and inspiring -- instead of getting grey hairs by the time you're sixteen, never getting to invest in the things you actually like (or worse, being too burnt-out to really feel anything), while slowly feeling your exhaustion inevitably edge you closer to a complete breakdown. You know you're in over your head, you know you can't keep treading water forever, but nobody seems to see it, and everyone just keeps piling on more weight.

Yeah, I was labeled as “gifted” in school also, so people pressured me into Science. I got to year 3 of Chemical Engineering and realized that I hate Engineering, and promptly switched to Finance. Having expectations on you to be a certain way is awful and really stressful

"We don't talk about Bruno."

@@cinderleaves3949 But we can sing about Bruno, it's technically not talking.

Verified animal

We don't talk about Bruno no no no

silencio bruno

Pretty much sums it up.

You described one of the very reasons I want a good TV show sequel of this movie. I would very much like for it to be a slice of life series.

It is extremely ironic how we had this internal joke about colombian people complaining on how this movie was an embellished version of Colombia because it did not show the reality of the country Like, it did not show the guerrillas or the violence and the main cast live in a house which only narcos could reasonably own Then, we have literal fire destroying an entire town and a man being violently assasinated At the end of the day, it was actually spot on I actually felt a strong connection to the background behind the story

I did not know about the guerillas! If you do not mind explaining, who exactly are they and how did they arise? And for what purpose?

@@katm8128 Oh that is quite a long story. Colombia has always been a VERY poor country, where inequality is the daily bread. The armed conflict officially began in 1964, however it had been going on for a long time, specifically since 1948 when Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, a liberal candidate for the presidency was assassinated and that unleashed La Violencia, a civil war that lasted ten years between conservatives and liberals. . This war is directly related to the formation of the guerrillas that would participate in the armed conflict of 1968, since the guerrillas arose due to the persecution of liberal and communist people by the government, this happened mainly in rural areas, since these ideas flourished more there due to poverty and inequality, however there were also some urban guerrillas, but I will mention these later. Three main parties participated in the war: FARC (guerrilla group, it should be noted that there were many more guerrilla groups), the national army and the paramilitaries. The guerrillas said they were fighting for the rights of the poor, which they did at first, but their principles ended up disappearing over time. The army said that it wanted to protect Colombians and the order and stability of the nation, and the paramilitaries said that they were only reacting to the actions of the guerrillas and that they wanted the same thing as the army. They all said the same thing, that they wanted to protect Colombians, however, each of the parties committed horrible acts, and in the end, the people were the true victim of this senseless war. Out of the 177,307 civilians who died in the conflict, 80% were committed by paramilitaries, 12% by guerrillas and 8% by government forces. The war got worse when drug trafficking began to proliferate in the 1980s. Both the guerrillas and the paramilitaries got into this business to be able to use the money to buy supplies and weapons, and they also resorted to kidnapping and extortion to earn more money, which made them lose support. In 1985 there were some peace talks between the FARC and the government, and that is why they co-founded a political party called UP as a way to demobilize and try to make a change through politics and not violence, however, any kind of hope that the war would end soon disappeared since between 1985 and 2002, 4,153 members of the party were assassinated by paramilitaries. It should be noted that the majority were NOT guerrilla militants. This almost kills any chance for peace in the country. A large part of the conflict was fuelled by the hatred between the guerrillas and the paramilitaries. The paramilitaries were right-wing civilians who had come together to fight the guerrillas, and they did it in the worst possible way. While the guerrillas killed "sympathizers" of the paramilitaries and the army, the paramilitaries killed "sympathizers" of the guerrillas. The quotes are due to the fact that to be considered a sympathizer it was only necessary that you had given them food or shelter, and the problem was that if you refuced to do it they would kill you, and if you did it the other group would kill you. This, together with the war in general, and that all the groups (yes, the army too) wanted to steal land, caused the displacement of more than 5 million people (this displacement was mainly because of the paramilitaries, the major land-grabbers). Again, the victims were civilians who they were supposed to want to protect. In 1985, an urban guerrilla group called M-19 took the Palace of Justice, taking the Supreme Court of Justice hostage, and with the aim of holding a trial against President Belisario Betancur. This guerrilla was very interesting since it was urban, and many of its militants were university students, not only from public universities but also from private ones. The take did not last long, and at the end of it, 12 of 25 Supreme Court Justices along with almost all the guerrilleros were dead. this was a tragedy since it was said that this was the last good supreme court. Both the government, the army, and the M-19 have been blamed for the deaths of the judges and other civilians. It is said that the M-19 was perhaps financed by drug cartels, and that there was a 24-hour coup against the president by the army, and that therefore there were no negotiations with the guerrilla and that the army only entered to kill whoever showed up. Supreme Court Chief Justice Alfonso Reyes was apparently burned alive during the assault, as someone incinerated his body after pouring gasoline over it, twenty-eight bodies were dumped into a mass grave and apparently soaked with acid, in order to make identification difficult, and la most have not been identified to this day. There are at least 11 missing from that day, most of the workers from the cafeteria, and many guerrilla militants, judges, and civilians also disappeared after being seen leaving the palace after the takeover by the army. Some of the dead even had gunshot wounds that did not match the weapons of the guerrillas. In the 2000s the government took an offensive position against the guerrilla, which worked and was seen as a good thing, however, the good reputation of the army and the government was stained in 2006 with the parapolitics scandal, in which It was revealed that high-ranking politicians and military personnel had ties to paramilitary groups, who had killed thousands of Colombian civilians and committed horrendous massacres, and some of these with the help and protection of the government (search: La massacre del salado, mapiripan massacre) . In addition, the paramilitaries and state forces were responsible for 85% of the political murders of the 90's, and the paramilitaries mainly persecuted poor people, unionists, teachers, human rights workers, journalists, and leftists political activists. They were also involved in social cleansing, with the support of local merchants, the Colombian military, and local police, they murdered homeless people, drug addicts, orphaned children, and other people they deem socially "undesirable", in 1993, at least 2190 street children were murdered. The paramilitaries tortured, massacred, raped, displaced, and beheaded thousands of people, and most of these crimes were ignored by the government and were even congratulated for them. The fact that something so vile was supported by the government is forever going to be a stain on our history. The reputation of the government and the army was finished with another scandal: the false positives. This scandal was about how members of the military had poor or mentally impaired civilians lured to remote parts of the country with offers of work, killed them, and presented them to authorities as guerrilleros killed in battle, in an effort to inflate body counts and receive promotions or other benefits. These benefits varied between more vacation days, promotions, or cash. A 2018 study dictates that there were more than 10,000 victims of false positives. This was revealed in 2008 and even today there is impunity. In 2016, the FARC and the government signed a peace agreement, leading to a ceasefire. However, there are still dissidents of this group, some that from the beginning refused to demobilize, and others that, due to the fact that many ex-combatants have been killed since then, have decided to return to arms. Peace in Colombia is fragile, the peace agreement has not been established correctly and poverty is increasing, it would not be a great surprise if another civil war happens again. I know you only asked about how the guerrillas came to be, but I got a little carried away.

latin america in general has a pretty big history of opression and violence that is still happening. im proud your strong people survived it, and i hope you all can find real peace someday and we can unite to rise together. stay safe hermanito :)

@Valentina Romero Diaz Thanks!

made my whole family laugh when that happened and pretty much most of his moments, they’re great

That scene! Omg. That broke me. Literally shattered my heart. And when the grandma said "Bruno never cared about this family" and Mirabel responded "Bruno loves this family!". When I tell you I cried even harder I can't!

For real

we don’t TALK about this guy.

OMG YES! I was hoping he was talking about- well, we don't talk about him- because he's my favorite character as well. ...AND WHEN I SAW THE PLATE HE HAD DRAWN AND WHEN MIRABEL FOUND IT HE SAID "MY GIFT WASN'T HELPING THE FAMILY BUT I LOVE MY FAMILY SO.." DEAD. DECEASED. GONE. The world doesn't deserve him, but he deserves the world.

The house being a metaphorical representation of the familys relationship was a pretty genius stroke of writing. At first I was like they mustve used the candle too much and its running out or Brunos power did something so make it crack but i felt so dumb when I realised at the end the house represented how the family was pretending to be perfect but was actually fractured behind closed doors. And it has to be broken down to rebuild into a truly harmonious family. The individual doors changing to a shared front door hammered it home. This really is a film you can write essays on and thats the telltale sign of a good script.

The movie establishes her trauma in the first scene, would have been an insanely messed up ending if they shunned her lol

The amount of times I cried watching this movie 😩😭 it was all too real

I have always been labled a gifted kid, and now I'm a senior in highschool being crushed by the expectations of those around me that I will go to college and get a high paying job. i don't want to do that. but everyone around me has always said I will because of how smart I am. it makes me preassured to go and then go get some job that I will hate but is what is expected of me. i don't wanna be rich. i want to make video games, not program web security.

@@MackAttack101 I’m in my mid 20s, just placing a perspective for you. I was a “gifted” kid artistically/creatively; but lost it past the age of 10-11. Since writing that reply, I found out why I cry so often with this movie: Luisa portrays exactly how I feel. I found out she’s not the oldest child: Isabela 21-22, Luisa 19, Mirabel 15. I am the middle child & was the big girl between the three of us sisters. The one who had to do the heavy lifting all the time. Mirabel is overall a great character that anyone can relate with, so having both Mirabel hit home for never being enough & Luisa being exactly how I grew up between two sisters, yeah, this movie hits home, doesn’t it?

It’s been so long since there was a really heavy hitting movie as beautiful as this since Moana, to be honest. Loved Frozen 2 but it didn’t hit as hard as Moana and Encanto.

Can you explain what imposter syndrome has to do with it? When Shaff said it in the video I was really confused because isn’t that when you feel you don’t deserve the things you’ve accomplished? I’m genuinely confused by how you relate to Mirabel that way.

Who is ernando? O.o

@@fernandoherrera8410 the guy that repairs the cracks, one of brunos alternate personas

@@fernandoherrera8410 "I am Ernando and I'm scared of NOTHING >:

Oh and don't get me started on Jorge

@@TheOnlyAristotle, heck yea, that walk would have crumbled years ago

Yes

No man, the musicals were side effects of the drugs the madrigals took

To me it seemed like in the end Mirabel’s power was the same as Abuela’s, to protect and take care of the family. Regardless, I really like that they incorporated a lot aspects from magical realism, the merging of reality with unexplained magic has always been a magnificent way to portray heartfelt stories.

I like the theory saying that Mirabel is the next matriarch. The reason why she didn't get the door is because Abuela is still alive. Her power would then be the leader of the house just like Abuela

I thought she actually got her gift, which is bringing her family back together, while her door were actually the front door.

But they still didn't explain why she didn't get her power, it's not like the house hated her, but nope, no power for you.

Yes yes yes! 👏 It's crazy how on a deeper level, us Hispanics can pick up on that. Generational trauma is something that isn't talked about enough and I was so glad to see this movie touch on it -- and not really hold back on the message either! Although my only gripe is that I wish the family didn't forgive the grandmother so quickly, but also Disney movie gotta be a movie and wrap it up before it pads itself out for too long. At least the grandmother acknowledged her mistakes and rebuilt la casita with them.

@@floresdeisla yes exactly this. First of I agree with both of you so much on Generational trauma in hispanic culture cause as you said it really isn’t talked about much and it was honestly hit home so hard. But also with the abuela point I agree as well. And it wasn’t just her, I understand that mirabel and isabella “made up” but there felt like no tension between them. And I get it’s all a Disney movie so they can’t dwell on any of it but i feel like with multiple characters relationships, e.g. abuela and the family, mirabel and Isabella y Bruno and the family, that there wouldn’t just be nothing there anymore. So As I read on another comment I would love a series like they’ve done for big hero six and tangled where they show the lives of these characters post movie. Cause then they could show all the complex relationships between the characters even more.

Yes! The Asian community says hi

I've been working on my own generational trauma for a while now and I picked up the signs right away, phew. Not Hispanic (Black), but the cracks (physical and metaphorical) became more and more apparent with each moment, esp with Abuela's behavior and the things she'd say.

o.o

It is what it is

@@Potatoman-tq3gq dang right

You ask yourself "Encanto - Is it good or nah? (Disney Reviews)"??

Nah

@@bruh-gn5kc I ask myself this on a daily basis

Same

Agree

Yes totally, I was taken aback when he said the songs were underwhelming.

You are correct, my friend

Agreed

Yeah, sometimes telling people they can do anything if they put their mind to it can be harmful. It might (unintentionally) imply that the reason they're not succeeding at one particular thing is because they're not trying hard enough, and sometimes that's just not true.

Pixar did that with monster's University awhile back too. Even though it was a prequel it was hard to see Mike at the lake and come to terms that he wasn't scary. Even though he did all of that studying and practice he couldn't be a scarer because of who he was. The movie didn't really deserve the rep it got

I especially love that mirabel didn’t end up magically getting a gift at the end of the movie. Really ties in to the fact that sometimes you cant do everything, and it’s okay.

Also -- Mirael _is_ very gifted and talented. It's just that her talents aren't _magical,_ so she gets overshadowed.

I was so glad that she didn’t end up with a Gift, or be offered a Gift and refuse it because “I’m glad to be myself!” There are some things you can’t do, and will never be able to, and that’s okay.

I mean, Byron Howard also did Tangled, and that was just full of great visual numbers

Can't expect anything less from the director of Tangled and Zootopia.

@@michaelstrong5383 I mean this is a huge improvement on the already good Zootopia and the already great Tangled.

Hellfire already existed that wasn't directed by them so its no big deal dude

@@edizgunes Perhaps he's talking about modern Disney

So Coco?

@@maakujiten3812 nah, everyone in coco was the same skin tone. That film is also different from encanto because the plot revolves around Dia de Las Muertos, whereas encantos plot is just character driven.

@@houston3103 that's my point that everyone in coco had the same skin tone

@@maakujiten3812 ah my mistake. Although coco does take place in Mexico in relatively modern Mexico vs encantos 1800s esc Columbia, so perhaps ethnic uniformity was acceptable in coco, but I'm no expert

@@maakujiten3812 Both films primarily follow a single family, and skin tones among a family come down to heritage. One of the two married couples in Encanto had contrasting skin tones, giving diversity to the family itself, both of the main married couples in Coco just happened to be all the same skin tone, which may come down to the community the family has lived in for generations having more darker skinned people in the local population. As for characters outside the core family in Coco, that is just pure laziness, making background and side characters more diverse really couldn't have been that hard if they had thought of it, especially at the actual Day of The Dead gathering, all the families in the background had to have had family members from across the country with various skin tones travel down to join.

i'm glad you mentioned her staying in the nursery and Antonio being afraid of being Gift-less because that was something I noticed and it broke me. Like, because Mirabel didn't get a gift from the candle, she wasn't even allowed her own identity. She had to stay in a nursery, and it's not like they couldn't have just made her a room in a non-magical way. That house was ever-expanding, they totally could have given her her own space. And Antonio, he saw how she was treated and subconsciously processed that as, if you don't get a Gift, you will be treated just as bad as her. And she was his favorite cousin, but he couldn't do anything to help her! Like, there's a whole lot of detail packed into every scene that just shows how deep the family trauma goes.

you’re so right! i love that this movie can have a different meaning for different people!

@@theonahopkins3144 And it implies a really screwed up dynamic, where Mirabel, at ten years old, five years after being denied her own personal space like everyone else in the family, was asked to give up part of the space she _did_ have to an infant and later toddler _instead of the child's parents,_ because the space _technically_ wasn't Mirabel's to control, as she had no official place in the house like everyone else did. Instead of the adults doing something to fix this situation, or taking the L and having Antonio stay in his parents' room, or creating another nursery, or giving Mirabel her own room, they took what little space was afforded from their family's most disadvantaged child, the only one who didn't have any space of her own, to give to another. And that means that it was Mirabel, at _ten,_ at hand and up at night when baby Antonio had issues. Who would have heard him cry? His mother and father were off in a massive magic void room down the hall. Mirabel probably took care of him as much as his own parents simply because they put him in her room. No wonder she and Antonio are close.

o.o

I didn't even realize it was the nursery, I just thought her family was the type to just walk in whenever... I wondered why Tia Peppa was taking a stuffie from Mirabels room. but now that you mention it it's a lot like the closet under the stairs.

It sucks that Encanto is surrounded by a lot of mediocre movies. It’s an amazing movie, but not a lot of people acknowledge it because of the bad movies surrounding it

Ikr. I really hope they bring the writers of Encanto back for future Disney projects, or take notes from them.

⁠​⁠​⁠@@Frogcoveni really hope so. Everyone loved Encanto when it first came over, but now people don’t hesitate to say that Disney hasn’t made a good movie in recent years, even tho Encanto was only 2 years ago and only proceeds 2 other movie animated Disney movies

Americans: *Why, this isn't Mexico?*

100% Colombia culture

@@erizamisorafujoshi7002 This weird Mexican DLC is fire

@@erizamisorafujoshi7002 yes

What really blew my mind is alot of it people who never been to Colombia wouldn't even notice they really showed so much love to Colombia and its culture

Family madrigal was pretty good, but surface pressure and we don’t talk about Bruno (especially we don’t talk about Bruno but still surface pressure) were absolute masterpieces

Surface pressure made it for me to get Luisa live in my head rent free as well, I relate to her a lot and honestly I feel like she's so iconic ciksksnsnsnsn

He edited his review of it on Letterboxd to say that the music has grown on him and he loves the movie even more now

@@80s_graffiti what a dub

See I think he feels pretty much the same as I did just after watching: I liked the songs but I didn’t really realize how much because they hadn’t grown on me and after frozen II I was a little burnt out from having a song every three minutes. After a few days they’ve grown on me sooo much (the “we don’t talk about rats” meme didn’t hurt either lol)

El costeño se la come a la burra? :V

Riaño el icono, la leyenda!

Tambien soy Colombiana y opino lo mismo ASJKHDGUYGSJF Bueno como les va gonorreas KLSHDGHUFJSHFDS

Same here! I really think as a colombian you can see a lot of stuff that other viewers won't. De todas las cosas jamás esperé un guiño a la época de la violencia, me destrozó cuando lo ví, excelente película 💖

@@PodcArne Riaño la rompió como Bruno, aprendió de Lego Batman jsjsjs

It was heartbreaking, that movie is a true gem.

as a colombian, i was bawling my eyes out there man.. idk how it felt for ppl from other countries but for us...damn they nailed it

Lets also not brush past they actively showed them burning down the houses and showed the one pulling out the machete. I was balling my eyes out especially with the music along with it

That was heartbreaking for me specially since I'm Colombian, it's a direct reference to the colombian armed conflict, that forced about 8 million people to move from their homes in rural areas to big cities and killed 262k people

ive seen comment from colombian people saying how it reminds them of home loss because of violence, is a sad reality that many Colombianos have lived before and this scene is so strong among them

I feel like for me the Disney Magic was in the movie being so comfortable with it's own terms. Most of the other movies were Disney trying so hard to be in on the joke of criticisms people made in like 2008 and for me that kind of meta humor and storytelling really sucked a lot of the fun out (I feel like Lindsay Ellis' video on the live action Beauty and the Beast touched on this pretty well). It was just so nice not to have an instance of "See we're not like those bad old movies please like us internet critics". This is a movie about a magic family in a magic house and you can take it or leave it.

i think tangled had this vibe too

@@frauleinfunf yeah we just watched Raya right before watching Encanto and I gotta say the writing and dialogue was much tighter, and more reliant on the circumstances of the world itself. Trusting that the story as presented would suffice and not making those self-conscious remarks. Like Raya's opening line is "I know what you're thinking: dystopian wasteland" and that took me out of the film immediately and there were a lot of instances like that.

PREACH! I couldn't even sleep last night after watching that movie. It was just so exciting, colourful and vibrant! It was like a song in my head.

I felt the same way!

i've had 'we don't talk about Bruno' stuck in my head for agesss so i agree haha

As a Colombian, the attention to detail musically and the incorporation of the musical culture of the country into the movies songs is incredible, using a Waltz due to its odd time signature for the ‘I want song’ in order to showcase she feels out of place is amazing, making ‘we don’t talk about bruno’ a bambuco in order to showcase that beautiful sason rhythm is marvelous and having the emotional crescendo of the film carried by a beautiful Spanish sung ballad was incredible. Best Disney score I’ve heard.

I think a lot of Encanto's songs had some of the same Lin issues as "Vivo" did. But I think they were still a bop, just not as great as lik Moana.

@@waterwraith1189 haven’t seen vivo, what issues does it have?

The songs are good in a musical theater advancing the plot context. Which makes it weird when they show up on the pop charts. Surface Pressure is the only song with an actual hook.

Im a bit sad some didnt get musical numbers I would love an entire song of Pepa and Felix going on about how they love each other, or a song about Camilo, maybe an issue that correlates to his powers? idk

@@MarcyTheKindaCoolWizard Camilo's singing part in "We don't talk about Bruno" is the highlight for me, he's so good, definitely needed a song

@@josuegarro5437 Same! It's such a good part, Camilo's VA killed it! Dolores was also great, the soft spoken but fast paced singing sounds so good!

spot on maybe the (younger) people calling the movie bad because it 'dOeSn'T hAvE a viLLaiN' expected worse from Abuela based on their own awful family dynamics

"Honey the movie isn't that deep. I just expect hard work from you." "Abuela that's the f'n point."

Not even just toxic expectations of Hispanic households. Every single culture has one standard or another that kids have to live up to.

@@bumfricker2487 What you point out is half the truth, the other half are kids who over exaggerate how bad their parents actually are in their heads, they ultimately have to learn that their parents are just bad or overly strict, not evil. Figuring out which is which is something that tends to be a challenge to discern in real life, I've seen things get out of hand and a lot worse when people can't figure out if the parents are out of line or if the kids just don't understand them, just family dysfunction 101 I guess.

what i dont like about the movie, is that they sing when something serious is happening. it may be a kids movie, but if there was a marvel fan watching the movie, i dont even know what would happen.

Absolutely! the pacing really started to deteriorate after the new prophecy was made... could've been perfect if they'd given the movie a longer runtime

i completely agree! i got to the end of the movie and was so surprised that there wasn't even a little more! 15-25 minutes would have been perfect

I got really confused with how fast the resolution hit, felt extremely rushed to me, but I feel to extend it they would really probably need to go into emotional territory that is too heavy to be child friendly, so they just cut to them resolving their differences and trying to move forward together. That makes it really hard for me to say if a longer runtime would've been a good call, because as an adult seeing a character immediately jumping to forgiving a character who has mistreated them for most of their life just because the person has experienced trauma comes across as not a great message and going into the process of repairing the relationship properly would've been better, but that feels like it would be too heavy for those 15-25 minutes for a film that is meant to be child friendly

This is the reason why I personally don't like this movie. They spent so much time trying to figure out what's wrong with the magic that by the time they figure out what to do, the movie was pretty much already over. It was so dragged on that I just found the movie boring. I straight up said, "Is that it?" out loud when the credits started rolling. If they had cut out some fluff to move the destruction of the house to be much earlier, the grandma could have more time to reflect on where she went wrong and the movie would've been much better for it.

@@AeridisArt You missed the point. It's literally not about the magic, the magic is just there for story conflict. The real thing this movie is about is the family and the generational trauma the grandmother passed down to her children. Sorry there wasn't some big boring fight to keep you entertained lmao

Very cool Doug dimmadome

@@seventfour Great movie! Has incredible animation, and the director is great too. It also has a really good message that resonates with me. Not only did I find the main character compelling with his personal struggle, but I liked how his rival/childhood best friend wasn't just this shallow asshole that wanted the same girl as him, but had some depth to his character too. The songs are okay, (some are covers which are done to a good amount). I liked them as a kid, they still are good music wise, but I don't think they come as close to bangers like the ones in Encanto. (Bangers such as surface pressure and we don't talk about bruno, I think those both stole the show for me.)

Luisa is the middle child, she isn’t the oldest

thats ok doug dimmadome, owner of the dimsdale dimmadome, you got this

@@key1853 ok? it doesnt matter, she was just saying she related to that song.

@L2 Sentinel Definitely, I bonded with all of them throughout. One of the few criticisims I have would be that it felt a little short for such an ensemble of characters. Wish it went for 5 mins longer **SPOILERS** Like for Bruno; he had plenty of screen time already, but I really wanted to see him finally getting a plate of his own sitting at the table :,,,

@@ToadGirlReturns That's one of the few critiques I had for the movie - it should have been just a little longer, like 5 or 10 minutes, so we can get a little more fleshed out character arcs. Even with Isabella and Luisa, they had a song, but I feel like they needed just a little more time to flesh them out more beforehand. Maybe just one more interaction with Mirabel before their songs. It's hard to put my finger in it, other than I was wanting just a smidgen more.

Ikr? I haven't loved a Disney movie this much in s very long time.

Me too.

It was all about the family, but I felt like they didn't show enough about each family member. They should have made the movie longer in my opinion.

I had the same experience, felt my eyes welling up, sniffling and everything, and as the movie ends my own family comes home and I just quietly sighed and thanked the fact I'm moving out in a week.

SAME SAME

@Cristofer Andrade let a man cry when a man needs to cry 😐

Cristofer Andrade Right, cuz showing emotions are weak somehow. Acting like you’ve never cried before lmao 😂

@Cristofer Andrade I know, right? human emotion is so outdated

ah yes,the classic gifted kid burnout

It’s so great that you recognize what happened to you so well.

Literally the same for me, and the fact that you're fully aware just makes it harder for yourself.

@@robertmarianomolina295 actually, it's easier: at least he/she know the causes and the principles/laws/rules/causes-effects-relations that were there and he/she can go through and pass over them, recognizing that he/she has *not* to accept them.

Same here

Honestly if you google domestic abuse (specifically terms such as Golden Child, Scapegoat, and Blameshifting) you'll find that the grandma uses just about every manipulative trick in the book!

I AGREE WITH THIS SO MUCH!!!!! I came out of the cinema enraged that Grandma got such a pass. She created two generations of toxicity, and then it was like, No Worries Babe, We All Make Mistakes. I think it was the only thing about this film that I truly disliked. I can accept her being forgiven, but only if more work had been put into her redemption

i agree but this is pretty realistic with latino families , no apologies and only forgiveness . its frustrating but makes sense as to why they chose that ending tbh

@@liasbiggestfan5053 ....they're Columbian tho Edit: It has come to my attention that Columbians are in fact Latino. Please forgive my lack of brain cells both here and further down the comment section - I didn't notice until comment 64 or thereabouts.

@@liasbiggestfan5053 yeah but just because it's normal doesn't mean it's right to have it as the ending

3:58 he very briefly mentioned it here

i hope that when Schafrillas makes a dedicated video to Encanto he gets to talk at least a little bit about this, I get that the interpretation of the theme about being gifted is widely applicable, but this story is more than that, the characters don't have a gift just because, they have a gift because it was born out of necessity; there's so much more to enjoy and appreciate from this movie that comes from understanding the culture that is celebrating

True that I actually HATE musicalls, but had to endure this one due to me being colombian too lol, best risk I took in a while!

How does one appropriate culture through movies?

@@rsotuyo8180 Indiana jones

@@rsotuyo8180 disney is famous for copyrighting cultural aspects of certain places they show in movies. Like common names on Aladdin, or how they tried with Día de los muertos when making Coco

I bet you didn't understood mexican joke we understood. I saw colombian reviews and coments, people liked this, but "it wasn't that colombian" and wanted it to be more like Coco. Funny.