I personally think the Bruno dancing in "We Don't Talk About Bruno" is actually Camillo getting ready for his part. The only time we actually see Bruno's eyes go green is when he uses his powers (if you watch the scene where Mirabel finds Bruno in the walls, his eyes never actually flash green, the light flashes past his eyes) which he mentioned he hasn't used since his last vision. Plus every time Camillo shifts into Bruno, his eyes turn green.

Something I noticed that I haven’t heard anyone else talk about is Mariano’s nose still being broken after the failed engagement. The whole family is right there, including Julieta, why wouldn’t she just give him some food and heal his nose? My guess is that her gift wasn’t working at that point either, just like Luisa’s. Small detail, but fascinating!

Another possible explanation for the doorpresentations: It was showing them their portraits from as far into the future as it could know - as they look on the day the Encanto dies.

Regarding the hug, I think we see young Alma because that's the version of Abuela Alma that Mirabel needs to embrace. She's always seen her as Abuela, the stern, in-control head of the family. But she needs to see the traumatized young woman who lost everything, and clung to what little she had - three children and a miracle. Part of Alma was still frozen in that moment, and couldn't move on until she finally faced her pain and had it acknowledged.

I think Dolores' eyes are open along with Bruno's because she knew Abuella and the others misunderstood the prophecies from Bruno. "It's a heavy lift, with a gift so humbling Always left Abuela and the family fumbling Grappling with prophecies they couldn't understand Do you understand?" She was letting Mirabel know not to trust what the family said/believed about Bruno's prophecy.

Another Small Detail: Each of the powers of the Madrigal triplets (Julieta, Pepa and Bruno) is tangental to the passage of time. Julieta's gift is that of healing, which reverts one to a past healthier state. Pepa's emotions effect the present weather conditions. Lastly, Bruno is able to see into the future. This also lines up with the order of their birth, Julieta being first born, Pepa the middle child and Bruno being the youngest. To a certain extent this even goes further into their personalities and characters. Julieta is the closest tied to the family's traditions and strives for her daughters to find their place in it. Pepa's intense emotions have a tendency to change from moment to moment, rarely lingering for too long. Bruno's always worrying about his own 'bad luck' and constantly tries to curb it with throwing salt and knocking on wood; worrying about what the future holds for him.

Not sure if y'all have covered what the term "madrigal"means musically. Essentially it's a song with multiple verses that stand on their own melodically, but also combine together at the same time to make something bigger than it's combined pieces. "We don't talk about Bruno" is, musically speaking, a madrigal. It also points to the central theme of the movie, that the family as a whole is greater than the individual people that make it up. They are all unique and able to stand on their own, but they are also all bolstered and supported more by the addition of the other pieces of the puzzle.

I also noticed that in "We Don't Talk About Bruno", Felix mentions what a joyous day thier wedding was while all Pepa seems to remember about it is that one negative experience. I mean, it did impact a lot of things, but you'd think uniting with the one you love would make it a little better for her.

10:58 - I think the reason that Dolores struggled so much to keep secrets all throughout the movie is because she was holding on to the HUGE secret of where Bruno is and that it is so hard to hold onto that secret so lesser ones slip out so that she doesn’t explode.

it's been confirmed that Abuela's door changed from her birth name to "Abuela" when she became a grandmother. so I'm pretty sure the images on the doors just age with the children, the pictureframes are probably just an inconsistency, since nobody wanted to make a seperate image for every door just at 5 years old. which you know, is perfectly fair. why work twice as much for a detail very few people will notice?

What I think is really cool about mixing up Isabella with Abuela, is that it's the interaction with Mirabel and Isabella that leads to the confrontation between Mirabel and her grandmother which leads to their reconciliation at the river! It all connects and it's out of order at the in the vision, and it's so good! 😀

My guess as to why Dolores and Bruno's eyes are open on their door is because of the nature of their gifts. Dolores has excellent hearing so she can't really use her hearing on a day to day basis. As for Bruno, his gift s foresight so why wouldn't his eyes be open?

If you look at the vision about the embrace, it is actually not the same as the embrace with isabella. With isabella the candle is more in the middle in between them. However in the vision it is not. There it looks more like the person mirabel is embracing is holding the candle like abuela always does.

I was confused by Dolores's "...and the rats talking in the walls.". Because she can't understand them, Antonio can. Did they conspire already at that point? Was she speaking figuratively? Why didn't she say "sqeaking" or "shuffling"?

At the end of the movie, when la Casa Madrigal is rebuilt and the doorknob inserted, a new carving appears on the front door. This carving features all of the members of the family, including spouses. Every character's eyes are closed. Due to this, I'm not sure that there is a magical correlation between a Dolores and Bruno's eyes being open and how aware they are of the family's trauma. If being aware of the family's trauma is the only qualification for having open eyes on a door, every character's eyes would be open on the family door. There might be a symbolic story-telling connection, but not an in-world, magical one. But as far as the magic is concerned, it's more likely related to the nature of their gifts, Dolores with heightened senses, Bruno with the ability to "see" into the future.

Another detail about the doors. All of the doors have the same markings surrounding the character BUT ANTONIO'S is completely different. It matches his gift.

Your thoughts about the bruno vision is totally right! I remember watching the movie for the first time and when bruno said ”its all out of order” i IMMEDIATELY thought that everything in the vision was gonna happen in reverse, and then it did! I was suprised more people didnt notice it but i think it is a really cool detail in the movie, and its definitively also Alma that they saw in the vision!

When considering Tonito's door, I always thought that perhaps his childlike appearance in the door was an indication that - though his gift COULD be MADE to conform to the utilitarian standards the rest of the family have- at its heart, this gift is inherently different. This gift is about WONDER. The wonder of new experiences, the wonder of a child. As he grows into a man, that aspect of his gift would never change. It would always be less the utilitarian gift that could ease Louisa's burden by merely telling the donkeys to go home - and more the Doctor Doolittle style of always having something new to learn. We grow up. We learn what we need to and we settle into a rhythm. It's the rare person with childlike wonder that seeks more. Also, I can't help but notice this parallels to the beginning where Abuela Alma says, "You are a wonder Mirabelle." Couple that with little Antonio literally stating to Mirabelle, "I NEED you" and I just can't put this bone down. I'll continue to gnaw at it until I've consumed the entirety of it. At first, watching this theory, I thought, "That's so sweet. Mirabelle seeing him as he is and accepting him as he is has manifested as something beautiful. I like this better..." But the more I thought about it and gnawed at that bone the more I realized that my theory and your own are not mutually exclusive of each other. They walk hand in hand just as Antonio (who previously had to be coaxed by the "wonder" Mirabelle to feel hope and wonder under a bed where he hid) and Mirabelle walked hand in hand together to relieve Antonio's gift. Mirabelle's full and unconditional acceptance of Antonio - including his fears which she didn't just sweep aside- helped him accept himself. And himself, and his gift, is wonderful. He's not a tool. The moments leading up to Mirabelle's ceremony were punctuated by her repeating, "Make my family proud" while Antonio had gotten the admonition he needed from a different source and already knew he had nothing to prove to at least one person. "I know you're an animal person. - and I made this..." she said. As you said, her eyes were open. She saw the boy. And his gift reflected not just her acceptance of him but his own acceptance of her assessment - and the freedom to just be HIMSELF. Beyond expectation, beyond duty, beyond utility. Okie, I've prattled on and on and honestly I could continue... but I think this is enough food for thought to post in the towel section. 🧁⚪

I think Isa being in the vision has more to do with Isa despised Mirabel and to fix the whole family, she needed her family to be on her side. She needed their support.

My sister watches this movie alot with her kids and she has a theory on why Mirabel doesn't get powers. She said all the other members of the family touches their respective doors after touching the candle. As for Mirabel she touches herself; putting the power of the house into herself. Which may explain why she was most connected with the house out of all the members in the house out side of abuela

The reason Bruno's and Dolores's eyes are open has to do with how much they are aware of their surroundings For example,On the day of Pepa's wedding Bruno knew how nervous she was and Dolores is aware literally of what is happening in the entire town..even Mirabel is not aware of as many things as they are . And as proof when Mirabel finally gets her door at the end ,her eyes are closed .

I thought hugging Isabella in the vision is what triggers everything to happen, because it is after that hug that Mirabel and Abuela have their argument because Mirabel helped Isabella open herself up, the house falls apart and than Mirabel runs to the river where Abuela finds her, and than the two reconcile. So I believe the vision was showing the next step, and where it would lead to (hence the butterfly landing on the grass that we see in the vision and in the reconcile scene!) 😊

I believe Pepa knew Bruno was in the walls. Firstly if Dolores could hear him she would as a child almost certainly tell her mom (as she is shown to not keep secrets). Secondly, in the final song Pepa says "come into the light" which seems out of place unless you knew he was living somewhere where he wouldn't see daylight.

I noticed on my first viewing that the cactus Isabela touches turns into a Hidden Mickey. It was *pretty obvious* if you ask me.

Just a little something Inoticed: when they rebuilt casita, there's a moment that Doleres goes down From a higher floor using a rope. It looks alot like the way Isabela used to magicly go down on her vines. And it allows her this moment of being like Isabella but in a while different way - more mischievous and full of life, not so gathered and in controll and perfect.

Both Dolores and Bruno having open eyes could be that they're the only ones with gifts that reveal the truth. Bruno can see into the future so he sees what will be true for someone. Dolores can hear everything so she always knows the truth about everyone around her.

What I also find interesting about Brunos vision that he had together with Mirabel, is that his vision is always completly green, no other colours, but with Mirabel the candle and the butterfly were yellow. I wonder, if this is due to her influence on the vision. 🤔

A cool detail I noticed is how at the beginning of the movie, before Mirabel leaves her room and sings "The Family Madrigal" she removes a piece of pink string from her dress that was falling off and at the end when she runs away there's an identical pink string on a branch and that's how Abuela finds her. Mirabel customised the dress herself and the fact that Abuela is able to recognise that it's hers shows how she does care deeply about her and knows her well even if she doesn't show it often enough.

Dolores: keeps the secret that Bruno is living in the walls for 10 years Also Dolores: can’t wait until after dinner to reveal the vision

Dolores starts talking about the prophecy Bruno gave her: "He told me that the man of my dreams//would be just out of reach//betrothed to another" and she goes on to sing "I can hear him now//I can hear him now". A lot of people seem to think in the latter part she is talking about Bruno and hearing him. She's not. She's talking about Mariano as he arrives at the house to propose to Isa, revealing that the man of Dolores's dreams whom Bruno predicted is Mariano

Here is something I realized this week that I've never seen anyone say. Encanto has a magic that is kept alive by a light in an upper window. Disneyland has a light on in Walt's apartment over the firehouse for the same reason. "Coincidence? I THINK NOT!" Bernie Kropp

Mirabelle's "I would" lines in waiting on a miracle all come true! "I would move the mountains" "make new trees and flowers bloom" "I would heal what's broken" "show this family something new"

Just a thought. Casita is a phoenix. It dies and is ''reborn''. The events of Encanto were always going to happen to some extent and the house, knowing it was going to die chose to use the time to heal rifts in the family. The cracks spreading everywhere wasn't a result of Abuela, but were the result of the house getting weaker. If so, this is going to happen over and over again untill there is no magic. The doors showed the ages of the people to whom they belonged because it could not see the future past its own death. Any doors in the new house look the same cause thats what they looked like in the old house. Just spitballin here. Sorry

Does anybody think that when abuela either passes away or “passes the torch” to mirabel she will finally get a door? Or did she get one when casita was rebuilt and they just didn’t show it? (I know her doorknob was to the whole house showing her “gift”) but c’mon a girl needs a room!!

Did anyone else notice that Mariano is a bulked up version of "Abuelo"? So basically a younger version of Abuela (who looks really similar to Isabella) is supposed to get together with a younger version of Abuelo. Wow, Abuela really is trying to control the family even more than I thought.

My idea about the doors imaging adult vs. young Antonio has to do with when the miracle faded. Since the future was unknown after a certain point, like how Bruno said it all depended on Mirabel, the house or miracle didn't know how things would end up. The doors show the characters at the age when the miracle broke, signifying a possible end. In contrast, the door at the end that shows the whole family could signify a new beginning.

This is a SUPER tiny detail and it quite honestly might be nothing at all, but to further drive home the theory for Mirabel becoming the keeper of the miracle after Abuela’s passing, both Abuela and Mirabel say the phrase “Let’s go, let’s go!” At separate times during the film. Mirabel says it during the song “The Family Madrigal” at the very beginning of the movie. Abuela says it during the family breakfast as everyone is gathering to the table. At first it probably seems like nothing to pay attention to (and it very well might not be), but both times the phrase is said it’s used in a similar way/ has a similar purpose: to gather/ corral/ direct the family for a moment. Abuelas moment is obvious, but while Mirabel is singing she says it during the part of the song when everyone is gathered together RIGHT before Abuela’s short singing bit of the song. I happened to notice it on my own and I’m probably grasping at straws, but it really struck me and as we all know, Disney rarely does things by accident, the details run deep and carry meaning 99.9% of the time so maybe it means something idk😬 Btw you guys are precious and one of my favorite channels, keep doing what you’re doing☺️

About Dolores knowing Bruno was still in casita, she explicitly says “I can hear him now” in the song.

I think it's a lot simpler than all that. Bruno just sees random snippets. That does not give him special insight. He's just guessing based on what he sees. What he sees is 100% accurate but his interpretation of what he sees isn't any better than anyone else could do. He absolutely saw Mirabel and Isabela hugging, and he just assumed that's all that needed to happen. In reality, that was just one little event in the middle of the whole process.

The Film Theorists has a great video on why Dolores is actually trying to break the miracle, strongly recommended

Fun Fact: In Disney Springs (Walt Disney World), there is an Encanto themed Christmas tree that has all the character doors, including Mirabelle’s. And her eyes on the door are also open.

I got the distinct impression that Antonio is just not fond of strangers, or large crowds. He prefers the company of animals. I feel like all the gifts link to the person in some way. And how they are used prior to the miracle wavering, is just how Abuela decided it would most benefit the town. Their gifts are like cutiemarks. And sometimes, you can read cutiemarks in different ways. ^^

I just finally got around to watching this movie and I absolutely fell in love with it so I am super excited to watch all of these videos with little details. I actually noticed pretty quickly in my first watch just how much Isabella looks like a young Alma, and in later watching I also noticed that Mariano looks an awful lot like Pedro. I think this is one of the reasons that Alma focuses so much on Isabella and is pushing so hard for the engagement. She sees in her the potential to have the life she wishes she and Pedro could have had together. There really is so much to unpack in this movie, the way the handle generational trauma and very real problems we all can relate to in the midst of this magical imagery is so beautiful... and the message that it wasn't magic, but love, acceptance, and supporting eachother is what the family really needed is a wonderful message.

After listening "We don't talk about Bruno" a million times, Dolores' line: "It's like I hear him now, I can hear him now." I believe refers to "the man of her dreams" which was the one approaching, Mariano. Tho I get that it may also refer to Bruno. lol.

I love the fact that we are still talking about this movie. It is literally the most impactful movie I have seen in years.

well i guess its not exactly something you missed but the golden butterfly is actually yellow and is symbolic not just inside the movie put to colombian literature specifically to Novel prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez one of the main tenets of Magical Realism and he uses yellow butterflies to simbolice life, magic and beauty. also the encanto is located on "el eje cafetero" the region of colombia were coffee is made the funny thing is the movie just combined a lot of different aspects of colombian culture into an specific place. people in the eje cafetero dont eat ajiaco, were ruanas or dance to vallenato all of this things are from different areas of the country. its like joining all of our country into a city its amazingly beautiful but quite weird.

The "open your eyes" thing is almost certainly intentional. Maybe it was the idea of the writers, but Lin loves stuff like this, so I could certainly see him coming up with that thread.

The first time I saw Encanto, I had thought that the figure Mirabel was hugging in the vision was Abuela Alma (mostly because of the position of the candle, which looked to me to be around hip level - where Abuela usually carried it... also because the skirt the figure was wearing wasn't as flowing as Isabella's.) So when it resolved to be Isa, it was a definite "wait, what?" moment for me. Although in retrospect, it makes sense... like you said, per Bruno "Things are out of order." Strengthening her relationship with Isabella was a helpful "baby step" toward making amends with Abuela which in turn saved the miracle.

I just noticed in the close up of the family with their doors, Abuela stands in the same position for everyone BUT Isabella!

Regarding the pictures of the characters on their doors: I think the theory of Abuela's expectations being depicted and Mirabel's appreciation of Antonio as he is in that moment are also shown in the way Antonio's ceremony starts: Abuela (always) stands at the door, expecting the child to COME TO HER, to "meet" her expectaions, Mirabel COMES TO Antonio FETCHES and ACCOMPANYS HIM. Abuela expects each family member to play by her "rules", she is the person to decide how and what to do, Mirabel meets them where they are and tries to make them feel better tl;dr Abuela and Mirabel show via their behaviour during Antonio's ceremony how they "treat" their family members in general

Wow, you just made me realise one more thing. I've noticed one connection - when Bruno has his vision, he takes Mirabel's hands to "see" better. He literally says "you may want to hang out". Now check this out. When Mirabel talks to Alma she does exactly the same gesture. When she leads abuela into the river, she says "I can finally see" and reaches out in the same inviting way Bruno did to her during the vision, ending up in Mirabel being the "seeing" one. It was clear to me for some time already (I mean, I've watched Encanto only some 2 weeks ago). But after watching your movie I thought - is that it or is there more into it. And guess what - this exact gesture of taking someone's hand happens every time, when someone reveals their secret pain to Mirabel! First after the part of "Surface Pressure" where Lisa comes back from the fact that she could have less pressure to the verse that the pressure keeps growing, they hold hands pretty much in the same manner (OK, in this case it's Luisa holding Mirabel, but the connection is clearly there, even though only "in song"). And then, when Luisa reveals how she's "sick of pretty" and Mirabel sings (surprise, surprise) "it's awesome to see how you rise", she offers the hands in the same manner and Isa accepts the gesture! Taking into account everything else I heavily doubt it is just a happy coincidence.

okay before I finish watching this video let me say this this is something that I believe that the reason why Antonio's door shows him as a child is because he loses his gift when he's at that age I believe that the doors show how long they're going to have their gift before "the incident" happens and as you can clearly see at the end of the movie the doors are blank they are a blank canvas now I'm not sure if when they went to their doors and touched it I'm not sure if it's going to show them like before or if like Antonio and Camilo their doors showed them when they're older because there's not going to be another "incident" happening ever again.

I like these theories. I've thought a few of these to be the case. It's definitely no coincidence that the miracle comes back after Mirabel hugs Abuela

Have they commented on the fact that when the house rebuilds all the doors are blank again? I want to hear their theory on that.

A friend and I have been discussing if there's a significance to the doors not yet having their carvings on them at the very end of the movie, like they're still "loading". In all other instances, they glow for a moment and reveal their carvings as soon as the character touches the doorknob, but in these scenes, they're glowing for a long time, and yet all the characters have their gifts back. I'm sure there's something to be said about the symbolism of the characters now getting to decide for themselves what they will be (hence the doors are waiting for them to come, touch the doorknob, and reveal something new), but it also leaves open the possibility that Mirabel will finally have her own room! Something the director sort of alluded to on Twitter, he mentioned in regards to this concern of fan's that there was something people hadn't noticed yet. Was what we hadn't noticed the blank doors? Just food for thought

Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure Camilo's door also shows him as a child but that raises the question of why are Antonio and Camilo's door the only one to show them as children

Amazinggggg im early woo Edit: about the first one, Antonio's door probably showed him as a child, the others' as teens, young adults (for isa and Dolores) and the old adults.i think casita was aware of when it would be destroyed, so it showed them as how they would look when the house died. Honestly, alma should've noticed that earlier

“IsABeLA!?!” That part will always be funny. 😂😂😂

My first thought on why Antonio's door shows him little after the showing of the other kids gift pictures was that Antonio will die little....less heartwarming than Ben's explanation lol

Theory: Mirabels gift is breaking things. Luisas gift stopped working RIGHT AFTER Mirabel talked to her. She broke isabellas unhappy engagement, and actually WAS the one who broke the house, and the miracle. But it NEEDED to be broken so that the family could come back together. Also, immediately when she got her gift she broke her door as her power manifested.

Y'all's videos are mindblowing. Every time i watch a disney theory video from y'all, I'm astonished.

I recently noticed in the song "We Don't Talk about Bruno" that if you listen really carefully during the ensemble part, you can hear Isabella in the background singing "He told me that my power would grow like the grapes that grow on the vine, I'm fine" followed by "he told me that the life of my dreams would be promised and someday be mine. And I'm fine, and I'm fine, and I'm fine fine fine" mirroring Delores's more frustrated singing of the same phrase. At least that's what I hear. It's pretty soft so maybe I'm not hearing correctly

One really cool thing I just recently noticed in Encanto is how in the scene at the end where they build up their home again, the man from We Don't Talk About Bruno who complained that his hair had fallen out has taken off his wig, which I think makes a really neat parallel to everyone embracing themselves as they are :)

During We don't talk about Bruno, when they perform the madrigal(the part where they sing on top of each other) You can hear Delores singing over and over that she is fine. Clearly trying to convince herself. Also if Pedro is Casita than I think the reason the house cracks is because the fighting is breaking his heart.

did you know mirabel do exact same thing in song in antonio ceremony the end of movie?? "she realy move mountians,make trees and flowers grow and she heal what's broken and show his family something new"

It feels like this shows Pedro is who created the miracle. The family had to go back to the place of the creation for Pedro to see that the family is still together.

With the door theory a nice touch is that on the door in the finale everyone’s eyes are open, since they now all know

I figured the pictures on the doors were when they understood their gift. Also I figured Maribel does have a power...she IS the candel...at least it's voice...she doesn't have a door so that her gift would overlooked.

But the most ridiculously cool part of this video is the fact that ben made it through recording this entire thing without noticing that his right sleeve was slightly folded

I think Antonio’s door looks young because that’s what he looks like when the magic ends

My first thought for why Antonio’s door is a child was that it showed the age they would be when the magic changed over to Mirabel. I like your theory too!

16:22 lemme add onto this, it’s also that way because water has memory😉and because they’re hugging at the pond where Abuela once was, it shows a younger version of herself because water has memory😉

Senora Pezmuerta was in the finale sequence of “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” for some reason. That has made me wonder if her role was originally bigger. Was she a former love interest of Bruno? No one else outside the immediate family is in the scene. It struck me as an odd inclusion.

him: we have pictures of the doors when they were getting there gifts me: yeah but who's to say that the pictures don't magically change to? 🤔

my theories: 1. mirabel didn't get a gift initially because: when you watch the scene at mirabel's ceremony, she holds the candle, wipes her hands on her dress, then touches the doorknob, causing the door to dissapear. during antonio's, he holds the candle, then immediately touches his doorknob, giving him his gift. mirabel just wiped off the magic. 2. mirabel is able to see the cracks in casita and has a closer bond with the house because she doesnt have a gift. while the rest of her family goes out to help the village, she has to stay behind at casita, and she spends more time befriending the house. 3. colors. one of the most obvious things to see are the facts that the different sides of the family wear different colors. abuela wears a purple-pink color, pepa's side wears orange/yellow, and julieta's side wears a more teal-blue pallete. bruno wears green, and is the only one wearing that color. his different color ties in with mirabels glasses, which are also green. that color couls represent how they both feel left out by the family. also, after isabela discovers who she really is and her dress changes to a dark blue to match her side of the family's colors, she is breaking away from abuela's perfect purple-pink world. isa's dress was initially a lighter kind of shade of abuela's dress. 4. isabela does look a lot like young abuela, and even wore her hair in the 2 braids( that young abuela always wore) when she was little. mariano looks a lot like pedro, which explains abuelas pressure on isa to marry mariano. she sees herself in isabela, and wants her to have the perfect life that she never got to have with pedro.

I generally just love you guy's videos and when you post ot makes my day

With Dolores knowing Bruno is there, i like to think the following: He just smashed the vision of Mirabel, and abandoned his room. He got settled inside the walls and remembered Dolores' Gift and gives a sad smile before saying "Dolores... i know you can hear me. Please.... don't tell your Abuela where i am. I love our family, but i can't help our family. If Abuela asks. Just say you heard me running into the forests of en Encanto."

Mirabelle doesnt get a door, she gets an entire freakin house

Piggybacking on the idea that Dolores and Bruno's eyes being open represents that their gifts give them a deeper knowledge/understanding of the world around the everyone else: Dolores' lyrics in We Don't Talk About Bruno show that she, like everyone else, grew up initially fearing Bruno because of his reputation. However, as her gift force her to 'open her eyes', she too has to grapple with knowing more than she should about everyone around her and bearing that burden. As an adult, she understands what he was going through better than anyone else even though Bruno hasn't been able to explain himself to her: "It's a heavy lift, with a gift so humbling Always left Abuela and the family fumbling Grappling with prophecies they couldn't understand Do you understand? " Her "Do you understand?" appears to me to even have a subtle desperation: She's not just asking if Maribel understands what she is saying about Bruno, but asking if Maribel understands her own burden. It's a cool moment, since the cousins don't get their own song, that we get to see her having similar needs to Isabella and Luisa for someone to understand and empathize.

When I saw that his door was him as a kid after a few viewings I always was thinking it’s showing them how they will look when the miracle loses its power because the house can’t predict beyond that

Ben, you’re blowing my mind with these cool details, and how much sense they make in the context of the story.

There is another thing that has bothered me for a while, and I was hoping someone could help: In Inside Out, is there any in universe reason that Riley's memories are in third person?

Adding to the last theory; if you look at “Isabella’s” dress in Bruno’s vision, you’ll see that her sleeves change from Abwella’s younger form’s dress to Isabella’s

Mirabel means “Mira”: to look, and “bel” comes from the Latin root of beauty/beautiful. What she does really well is to SEE the goodness, the beauty, what’s to be celebrated in all people, highlighted by her green glasses (the color lime green being associated with vision in this movie). She literally lives her name everyday, and THAT is her gift.

about Deloris knowing about Bruno, during the table setting she knocks on the wall, suggesting she is letting him know it is almost dinner time

Another thing Dolores sings in WDTAB: It’s like I hear him now. I hear him now! I CAN HEAR HIM NOW!

I remember hearing somewhere that Abuela's door changed at some point from "Alma" to "Abuela". I guess I just assumed that all the doors did that. and that maybe the magic made the doors in the photos change as well.

Three fun facts. One, in Columbian Culture, the squeak Dolores makes means she heard something she shouldn't have, because during a war they developed a way to communicate without speaking. Second, in Columbian culture, saying 'it looks like rain' to someone on their wedding day means you think their going to get a divorce, which is why Peppa got so upset. Third, Mirabels VA was in labor when she sang 'Waiting On A Miracle'.

Bruno really needs a good mentor to learn how to use his powers well. He currently has 3 problems: 1: He doesn't know how to communicate about the visions well (Your golfdish dies tomorrow isn't a great message to bring) 2: He doesn't have a way to communicate if he's had a vision about something or if he's just remarking something as a normal human being 3: He has trouble figuring out when a vision is done, meaning he can stop too early or he might struggle to find the real meaning. I think with some mentoring he could really become extremely great at what he does.

Something that I've personally thought ever since watching the movie for the first time, is that, at the end of the movie, where they get Casita back and that picture on the front door, that that door is actually Mirabelle's door. It has her at the forefront, showing what her gift is, leading the family and protecting them and the miracle. Whether that gift is from the candle or just a natural gift she has, either way. I believe this mostly because there's no depiction on the front door until after they rebuild the house.

I think that the doors change in the pictures how they do irl. why have the magic stop at the doors changing in pictures.

For the doors, I was a similar but different thing. I was thinking that the images depicted what everyone would look like at the time the miracle ends. I like your take on it too though.

10:36 also Delores sings “I can hear him now” when her verse of Bruno overlaps with Isabella’s

I think it's important to note that Augustin also wears glasses and is the first one to really take her side, believe her & stand up for her when she reveals what she been doing & what is happening. Especially contrasted against Julietta who didn't when Mirabel told her about it & told her to not 'lose her way in the family' like Bruno did. He had a clarity of the situation that maybe Julietta was too close to see or maybe had just given up on as the yrs went by; as Augustins deleted line to Julietta in the final song (revealed by Lin) said, "She takes after you, that's exactly how you were" in reference to how Mirabel has grown & who she is as a person. Also the front door at the end shows everyone with their eyes closed, & even in different poses- the symbolism of which would be endless fascinating to discuss.

5:37 - 🤯 how have I never noticed that. Although I would also argue that Camilo could be a child in his door, he didn’t look as tall as the others. But I LOVE the Mirabel being the reason the door was different But they did design little kid character versions so that wouldn’t make sense? Unless you were being sarcastic? 🤔

Thanks for explaining the Abuela embrace thing. The points about it confused me a little bit when I first watched the movie

I just watched Encanto. Yes, I know. What took me so long? Anyway, we in the 21st century see Bruno's visions as holograms. But they didn't have holograms during the time period the movie was set in. You see... way back in the mid 1980s, my friends and I tried making a hologram. The early ones were green or red because of the laser color. And we had a green laser of the right strength. We had the medium to etch the hologram on. An apple to be the object in the hologram. And here is where it gets interesting... We needed a large darkroom so we could space everything out, and... Sand. Lots and lots of sand to keep everything stable for an extended period of time. Did it work for us? No. It was like trying to build a homemade pinhole camera, but... Is it possible or even probable the animators took that early technique as inspiration for Bruno's vision sequence?

YES! I remember thinking that when I first watched the movie!! Seeing the butterfly from the vision and then Mirabel and Abuela hugging and thinking "*gasp!* The Prophecy!!"

Actually Bruno and Dolores are not the only ones depicted with their eyes open in their carvings, Luisa's door actually shows her with her eyes open too

I’m only 1:33 min but just had to stop and say that the first time I watched Encanto (after the movie finished) I said to my partner that Isabella and young Alma looked almost identical and that in the vision I thought Mirabel was embracing young Alma in a sense because the magic didn’t crumble until Mirabel was the one to reject Abuela and it was only healed again after they spoke in the place that Abuelo died, so my interpretation of the vision was that Mirabel was helping Abuela see that it was okay not to be in stuck in survival mode anymore therefore allowing that inner part of her younger self to grieve and work through the trauma of losing her husband and to hopefully allow her to appreciate and see her children/grandchildren for who they are and how far the town has come as a whole now that she is no longer the person to shoulder the entire burden of protecting it from her trauma.