The thing that bugged me the most was that no one actually apologized to Bruno at the end of the movie. He took it upon himself to apologize to Pepa for her wedding and then added he had a lot of other apologies to say, but we never saw anyone on screen actually apologize to HIM. That was a bit of closure I needed in Encanto that I never got. I guess can assume/hope that they did, but that's not the same as seeing it.

In defense of the house: the room you get is the room you need. With everyone blaming Bruno for every bad thing he warns people about, the house creates the ultimate challenge such that if you're going to see Bruno - you have to prove that you really WANT to.

The movie dropped the ball hard with him at the end, Grandmothers trauma was treated so seriosly, but Brunos trauma, which SHE CAUSED, is just a punch-line

I feel like the only reason Camilo acted like that was because of his parents let's be honest he was 5 when Bruno left so it makes sense. He had no chance to form real memories with him.

I just know he VIBED in a corner of the yard when he heard his entire family dissing him on WDTAB.

Mirabel's prophesy wasn't changed. It had two options to begins with.

I've got a theory. We don't see Julieta or Pepa's rooms. What if all three rooms were unliveable because the house meant for them to be practice spaces, not bedrooms. When the triplets insisted on using them as bedrooms (possibly to escape an already-overbearing Alma), the house learned and made the bedrooms for the younger ones more liveable. We know Casita is a person with feelings and opinions, why not have ideas of its own that the people didn't understand. So, Julieta doesn't have a comfortable bedroom, her room is just a large kitchen prep room. Pepa's is just this big waterproofed space with a lot of overhangs and things. But with the next generation the house shrugged and made bedrooms that could work as bedrooms as well as practice spaces. Casita isn't tormenting Bruno, the triplets just made a really weird assumption or moved in out of desperation to hide from Mom.

I feel like Julieta did care about him. She mentions hoe he lost his way in the familly, and never said anything negative in the movie. But what could she have done? Eith her mother the way she was, Julieta felt powerless, and had her children, especially Mirabelle to worry about, and her husband couldnt have possibly backed her up, out of fear of being outcast himself due to him only being married into the family.

It bothered me that he was the one who apologised to everyone at the end. Never understood why

Mirabel didn't change the prophecy about her breaking the house It was a vision with two images, and it was not clear if she's breaking the it or fixing it Turns out it was the latter But Bruno didn't want to risk his mom reading it as Mirabel breaking the house, so he didn't show it to her

my two hottest takes about encanto are that bruno got done SO dirty by the narrative and alma was let off the hook WAYYY too easily. like. i feel like a similar thing happened with the movie Brave where they were like "i know we spent the entire movie very clearly showing you that the protagonist's mother/grandmother IS actively hurting her daughter/granddaughter and making her miserable and doesn't seem to value her feelings at all, but we will do a complete 180 in the last 15 minutes so she is let entirely off the hook because they are family and they love each other!" what a terrible message to send to children, especially young girls, with toxic family members

I don't think his room was always like that, it's possible it changed as he grew more distant from the family. Can you imagine if they treated Luisa like that, telling her to move the church to that clearly designated spot, only to yell at her when she did, no cngae of plan, no miscommunication, just rage.

Of course Bruno didn’t deserve it. Victims of scapegoating seldom do. Also tends to be true for victims of gossip. I agree though, the family could have shown a little more remorse at the end.

Personally i think he rarely used his ability as its kinda a pain to do. Hes just observational. He sees a couple of clouds and says "looks like it might rain". He sees a fish swimming funny near the top and says "i dont think your fish has much longer left in them". Bruno said the guy is "gonna grow a glut if you keep eating like that" and he sees the person balding. The town thought he had a curse or badluck because he can just see these things in other people that they dont see or lie to themselves about but because "the guy that can see the future" says it, they think he basically cursed them to inevitably have that future. Pretty sad if you think about it. Gives off witch hunt vibes where people attacked one person just because they did something the others didnt understand yet

The house gave him a room that's hard to get to because he said himself he needs peace and quiet to be able to focus on his predictions. The house was helping him in that regard so people couldn't easily barge in and interrupt him. Also we can't be entirely sure that was saw ALL of his room, there was more than likely a sleeping area that wasn't all sand and what not. The house had already been weakening by that point and likely wasn't putting in the energy to 'keeping up' his room as much when he's not using it, the big hint being his door not glowing. Not to mention once the people started being harsh on him the house would help him get space. Everyone else deserves the blame but Casita did its best for the whole family and doesn't deserve to be talked badly about.

His room changed after he started living in the walls…it had to be livable prior and be a reflection of his personality and gift

I legit hated how NOBODY really apologized to Bruno or Mirabel at the end. Sure, they all look sorry, but we don’t get any serious tears or expressed regret at how they treated them. In fact, Bruno apologizes to THEM. And they just brush over their actions and want to start fresh.

I think we can all see that Encanto is really about childhood emotional abuse and favoritism. Bruno and the MC both were treated like garbage by their family. Bruno for not wanting to harm anyone's feelings. In the MC case, she was essentially hated by the family because she didn't have any powers, she was just "there" and that is how the fam treated her.

I don't know if it's like this for every hispanic/Latino culture but for mexico (my culture) and from what I talk about with my friends is that Mexican families really like to put on a facade that everything is perfect, to strangers and the public but also to other parts of the family. But also, you need to do what the family approves of, if you get in a situation that causes grief or whatever problems they'll blame you/judge you for getting in that situation ( instead of trying to he supportive or helpful). Which is funny because it condraicts how close Mexican families like to be. So Encanto was really great at representing the problems we face culturally through the perspective of mirabel and Bruno. Edit : I know they aren't Mexican in the movie but I'm relating it to my culture and I often hear the sentiment with other related cultures is what I'm saying

Bruno did deserve better, but that's the nature of the "Curse of Cassandra". It's used to show that people would blame the prediction for coming true and not do anything about it instead of actually preparing for the worst and changing that future. In Greek Myth, Cassandra could tell the future and in one version of the story (there are a few that change details but this is the one most people know of) people appeciated her warning them, but because she spurred the lustful advances of a god, (Some versions say it was Zuse that tried to seduce her and Hera found out even when he wasn't successful and she was the one to cause this, some say it was Zuse himself, and others equate it to another god cursing her in verious ways.) Her foresight became a curse and people stopped believing her perdictions and when they came true, they would blame *her* for causing them to happen by just predicting them. I wouldn't be suprised if Bruno would have *still* been blamed for the prediction of the house falling appart by Abula if he stayed instead of Maribel being blamed for Bruno leaving. Because it woud be consistant with what he's experienced due to that curse of having foresight. It would have also been consistant with the Generational Trama theme of it all since Abula, like you mentioned, always needed a scapegoat so she wouldn't have to look at her own trauma. So He had every right to expect to be blamed. As much as I get that people feel that apology situation for Bruno was rushed, but I also get that the movie had to be wrapped up and the focus was more Mariable is the one that changes the views of the family on how to view family. Also I would argue in the moment it's more that everyone just wants to have a happy moment after such a tramatic event of the whole house almost literally falling on top of them, only thanks for Mariable and Casita throwing them out of the falling rubble to protect them. So seeing that Bruno is actually safe and *actually* talking to them is a huge win in the moment and a huge win for Bruno's anxious mind since his family is safe. Now I would love to see a TV series on Encanto similar to the Tangled Series to see them open up the healing process *for* Bruno, but that's wishful thinking.

If you take the movie literally, I agree completely. That said, if you take each of the super powers as ways that real people handle intergenerational trauma like this it turns on its head a little. Abuela deals with her pain by maintaining appearances. Pepa deals with Abuela's pain by emotional outburst (weather). Julieta deals with Abuela's pain by acts of service (food, and probably avoidance). Bruno deals with Abuela's pain by trying to anticipate everything bad which can happen (hypervigilance, not esp). No one has super powers, they have behavioral tics.

I really wish the story involved Isabela and Luisa more to convey the sisterly bond and make their arcs feel more full, as well as having people who knew Bruno before he left. And side note: do you believe the theory that Dolores' power is actually telepathy?

The room wasn't like that at the beginning. The creator of the movie said that the stairs grew in reaction to people hurting him. Every stair represented one instance of unfairness he had to endure.

I don’t think the town hated bruno as much before he left. I think they were only mocking him because they were bitter that he left them

As someone who was the youngest child in a family of 3 siblings and my dad was the second youngest in a family of like 10 siblings, I can really relate to Mirabel's experience of being told all these weird rumours by her cousins about estranged family members. In giant extended families you just don't ever meet some of your uncles and aunts so they become these mystified figures. The adults will gossip about how he "ruined our wedding" and the cousins and older siblings will come up with the most batshit insane stories to freak you out because you're young and gullible. Camilo might seem heartless but he's just a dumb boy who barely knew Bruno himself and seizes the opportunity to freak Mirabel out.

My hot take on this movie is that the house should absolutely have taken away everyone's powers at the end. Mostly because they've shown they don't deserve them, Mirabel proves she doesn't need them, and they cause problems like Luisa feeling weighed down by the town's expectations. I really thought the message was going to include, 'look at Mirabel, she is proof this town/family doesn't need superheroes to love and support each other'. Missed potential imo

Yes, Bruno deserved better. But, Bruno is a great character. He saw that his niece was at the center of the house cracking and knew how his vision would be scene. He knew that Mirabel would likely be viewed negatively and rather than give that fate to his niece took that onto himself and hid away. Bruno is an amazing character.

The room, me and my brothers were joking that maybe it was done as to ward off people coming for him for every decisions in their lives. Or that his room has secret spaces and elevators for him, hence why he easily knew about the room between the walls. Maribel: Do you know how much of a journey is going to your room? Bruno: You didn't take the elevator? Maribel:...what elevator?

I love this movie but the one thing that really bothers me about the final song is that BRUNO is the one who apologized for ruining Pepa's wedding and nobody else takes accountability for the way the treated him. I always sing over the lyrics "hey we're just happy that you're here okay" with an apology so my kids grow up knowing the family scapegoat is not the "problem " That family still has a long way to go before they're considered to be a healthy dynamic.

Camilo’s description was the scariest because he didn’t even remember Bruno and was stating his opinions on him based on what the rest of the family has told him

As the black sheep of my family I identified a lot with Bruno. Everyone did him dirty.

what pisses me really off whas in the final where the Abuela not once gives him a "im sorry" or something similar that comes to a apology, just a Hug and some words that sounds that shes "care" of him, but no apology

From my first time watching, to this day, I still wanted abuela to get confronted by the family members ESPECIALLY Bruno about their feelings and how they all feel, and not just Maribel. I get it's a Disney film, but Bruno shouldn't just be fine with just one hug at the end from his mom after all he went through.

The whole family is messed up. Bruno actually represents mental illness, which nobody talks about even though it’s there for all to see. Abuela lets her trauma control everyone else’s life. Pepa appears to have serious anxiety and possibly bipolar disorder. Luisa is overworked and stressed out. Isabella is a mama’s girl who’s afraid to be herself. Dolores is non-confrontational but ready to cause conflict in others. She does defend Bruno in the song, though, and you can see him in the background nodding along to the music in her segment. She keeps his secret, presumably to protect him. Camilo is impulsive. He was just a little kid when Bruno left, so he has few solid memories to work from, and Bruno was a lot bigger than he was at the time. The rest of the townsfolk blame him for being the bearer of bad news, and there are a lot of real life people who handle bad news so poorly that everyone lies to them to avoid the drama. Bruno is also awkward and may have told his prophecies in a way that people frequently misinterpreted. Bruno’s room is desolate because he doesn’t live in it anymore. I believe the creators said that his room was much more livable when he was younger and still living there.

Bruno keeps interrupting canon events and Abuela 2099 tryna stop him

I mean, maybe his room is like that because he wasn’t using it. Nature reclaimed it and all. As for his treatment, I feel like the townspeople were getting mad at him because the believed that he was trying to spite them on purpose with his predictions. This caused them to get angry with him which led to him tarnishing the family’s reputation. He probably wanted to stop giving predictions but was forced to by Abuela because she believed that the family had a duty to use their powers to help the townspeople, whenever requested. She probably tried to cover it up and say that everything was fine and that people should still go to him, until his prediction seemed like it would eventually destroy the family, at which point he decided to leave and hopefully avoid those consequences. Abuela, of course, then used this as justification to keep a tighter grip on the rest of the family. I guess she treated Mirabel so badly because she’s not using the gift to help the townspeople and seems to be generally clumsy, getting in the way of pretty much everything important. One thing that I wonder is why he didn’t just drop the shards of the prediction slate into the canyon or take them somewhere far away from the house.

The house gives you a room you want and changes to suit your needs. While it seems inhospitable to us - the sand room must be something Bruno ENJOYS - and I can see why. He is an anxious mess. He has some sort of OCD-like thing going on and he gets overwhelmed and panicked easily. His mental health isn't typical. Sand absorbs noise. Sand is a very strong sensory material to touch, one some people like. Sand tends to absorb smells - and has a warm smell of its own. There's alot of stairs - alot of time and energy needed to reach his prophecy room. It's a ritual for himself, counting steps or giving time to mentally prepare. Its large, open and bright - not claustrophobic, lots of room to wander and think... I think he would find his room relaxing and safe, with many options for calming himself.

It ticked me off when Bruno was blamed for people going bald, getting a beer belly and goldfish dying. Things that were never in his control in the first place Alma was a terrible mother and grandmother. Glad she owned up and apologized in the end

Bruno always deserved better, 100% lol 6:16 Can I saw Felix does vouch for Bruno but no one wants to hear it so he goes along with their narrative (which one can say is just as bad as spreading it). He joins his wife in the song but he's the antithesis of her version. She sees the perspective that the day was ruined but he sings "a joyous day" by the end because he loves her so much that her weather anxiety couldn't ruin it. At the end of the movie he admits that he understood Bruno's joke was a joke but to the wife it became festered anxiety but not because it was a joke but because the reputation of his powers. Notice how only Felix was willing to talk about Bruno but his wife shut him down but helped her vent because he care for her. Their son vilifies Bruno because he was a child by the time Bruno left so he's playing up the rumors. That's all he knows of Bruno given his age. Young enough to know he exists but too young to have met him. He's also always performing for people/being different people so you're not supposed to take his version seriously. Delores was old enough to know Bruno and notice her song is not so much disparaging his reputation but repeating what she heard and singing what "she hears". She knows he's in the walls because she hears him, her song admits that. However, she's quiet and avoids confrontation. Everyone works for abeula's approval so what would she gain admitting it but feel she'll be responsible for more drama? Especially since her mom had only bad things to say and her dad doesn't fight it? I can honestly say the movie captures the walking on glass feeling families can deal with when certain subjects pop up. This is why they don't talk about it, it's self preservation lol I do think the town and family is at fault no matter what and that they used him as a scapegoat and did him dirty af though. I also think they spent enough time on his apology from his family and the town. I think they did need to give that more time. I agree on everything but had to add my thoughts.

No amount of apologies can ever make up for the shit this family gave him. I have to admire the man, I'm not sure if I'd be able to stick around that place

I think for Pepa, she was hurt by him leaving, and masked that hurt with rage, and put it all on her Wedding Day. Her Husband seems to be an overly jovial fellow, but also has to help his wife manage her emotions, and typically goes with what she says to appease her. Camilo I think only had a few memories of Bruno to go off of, being that he was little when Bruno left. Dolores definitely just went with the "We Don't talk about Bruno" mentality. The rest of the family is pretty ambivalent toward him, but the townsfolk who had their prophecies read and got upset are jackasses. The Future holds a lot of pain and fear, along with joy and hope. If you don't like the idea of the former, then don't ask. The Grandmother though, definitely has a lot to answer for. And not just toward Bruno.

As a Hispanic person, that's pretty much how families work here, based off respect to the most elders ones, making them seem like they did no wrong and protecting them by using a scapegoat for the family. The elders aren't expected to apologize since "they did can't do wrong" and once the fanily decides someone it's not part of it anymore it turns into a taboo theme between the family.

Yeah Bruno deserved better. The movie was about the messed up family dynamics and how they had to be fixed.

Oof you hit the nail on the head. This was a very nice movie but the matriarch was seriously bad news. Bruno was, in my eyes, a really decent guy who dealt with the family dysfunction as best as he could

Bruno is a sad character and his problems were result to quickly His room is like that cause it decomposed cause no one was there to take care of it he was not home back so it is broken His family is terrible but his mom is the worst she is the reason for all of the problems in the family

Dolores was definitely trying to sneakily hint at Bruno's presence

The room just got that way after he left

I said it before, I'll say it again, Alma(Grandma) got off WAY too easy. She emotionally abused her son or let it happen, she did the same to her granddaughter, and they all just forgive her for 50 years of hell in 1 day. Hell. No.

Bruno is the one person everyone can take out their frustrations on because he’s isolated. He’s isolated because of his unique personality. It’s not just his powers he has a different perspective on life. Bruno believes in choice and others would rather believe in fate and see him as the harbinger of negative news.

If I had a nickle for ever Disney "Happy Ending" that never actually addressed the problems of the story, I'd have a lot of nickles.

Bruno has pretty solid villain origin story

I'm going to be political. I've often found that people DO NOT MIND movies or shows about other cultures. In fact, some, like myself, actually enjoy the exposure. What people don't like is when these shows or movies have a preachy or antagonistic "us vs you" sorta tone. Encanto didn't have that, which is why it was successful. But for some reason, Disney doesn't see that. They just see a film about Latin culture, but are blind to the nuances in it. They clearly can't learn from their mistakes, but weirdly enough can't learn from their successes either. This is the problem with politics, religion, and ideologies in general. They want to simplify a complex world and get mad when the world doesn't contradicts them.

Bruno = Damned if you do, Damned if you don't.

I just noticed something. Mirabel and Bruno, especially bruno, look the most like Abuelo, Abuela's husband. Maybe part of brunos treatment from his mom comes from looking so much like his dad, and being a reminder

This is why he's my favorite character and they better make it up to him, Hernando and Jose, who makes the spackle

I will forever say F abuela, she was so terrible to my girl. Even after all that happened at the end i wouldn't be able to forgive her.

Bruno didn’t need to apologize for anything. The townspeople and his family could’ve said their apologies. But it’s clear Bruno wouldn’t be the type to forgive them. I know I wouldn’t.

6:31 I love that you mentiond that Dolores can hear him because Nicque Marina made a bunch of tiktoks of Dolores listening to his rat plays like they were telenovela 🤣 and they are perfection

We all know Dolores could hear Bruno in the walls and she kept silent for years, but when Mirabel went into his room she couldn't stay quiet to save her family.

Wow, I didn't realize that Bruno was treated this badly. It's nuts, like with the power of prophecy that he had made him disliked because crap happens and everyone wanted to blame the guy who saw it coming. Storm on a wedding day, a storm that most likely caused by the bride who happens to have weather powers. Fish dies, nature. Gained a gut, nature. I could predict things like that to happen without powers cause of nature and human understanding. And his own family gets on making fun of Bruno, I was so made about that. And the Grandma, oh boy, something goes wrong in her little world and points the blame on either Bruno or Mirabel. Get your head out of where it's at (have a good feeling where) and just accept your family instead of trying to mold your family into the picture of perfection.

Bruno stated he didn't intentionally ruin Pepa's wedding day. Pepa tries her best to control her emotions at all times so nothing like this happens. She was the second to get married in the family. She was happy that she was marrying Felix. Upset that her Dad couldn't be there. Worried that she was going to screw things up with her gift. Plus, there was all the other wedding jitters. Bruno was trying to get her to relax and just not worry about her powers going crazy and embrace the craziness. In fact, that was what her husband was always trying to say. Embrace the crazy weather. If she just relaxed, her wedding day would have been fine.

I do remember thinking how incredibly dark a lot of those song lyrics were when I first heard them, and we just sort of gloss over them with the power of catchy tunes and quippy phrases that distract us from the fact that YOU CHASED AWAY A MEMBER OF YOUR FAMILY THEN ACT LIKE HE DOESNT EXIST!

Smarty Pants: "I'M STILL MAD ABOUT BRUNO" We're still absolutely mad about Bruno. The only ones that aren't angry are his family. They're terrible. Except for Mirabel and Antonio, they're great 👍

Bruno’s room was probably better when he lived in there

When Bruno said, "it looks like rain" to Peppa, I bet it's his way of saying calm down to Peppa since she might be feeling anxious on her wedding day and might cause inclement weather due to how her powers work. But nope, everyone just decided it was a done deal while forgetting Peppa can literally manipulate the weather.

Thank you so much for posting this video. Short of the death of a father, I lived this Bruno life, provision hypersensitivity and hiding my self away even trying to end my self to stop the chaos i was being told by my mother i cause. and i am blamed by everyone who saw the show my mother put on about me "exaggerating" and "mental health issues making me make things up", fell for it.

Apparently from what I recall his room used to not be that bad, but the more he felt distances from his family the further away he would have to go in his room to use his gift. So initially it was likely a fairly small space over all, but the reason it became that deep empty cavern was due to his feelings of isolation.

Bruno is such a great guy.

Dolores knows he's there. She knocks on the wall to tell him it's dinner time so they must have some sort of interaction. My hope is she's secretly been helping him all these years, which would make it a lot less terrible. She is the family's secret keeper after all.

The thing that always strikes me about Encanto and Bruno's story is that it doesn't actually offer anything for people who identify with Bruno's situation. Bruno just remains kind, loving, forgiving, and family-focused, despite having every reason to be bitter, hateful, and disconnected from his family. So anyone who feels like they're neglected or scapegoated in a similar way that Bruno was will have a hard time connecting with his experience, because Bruno's actual suffering is essentially ignored.

Maribell's prophecy doesn't really change though. The context around it changes and turns positive but the prophecy itself never actually changed. The house still fell apart. She was the cause. THAT was the Prophecy! It never changed, it was followed through but what happened around it was what changed.

I agree with you he does deserve better from everyone.

Bruno is a male version of Cassandra. Being able to see the future is never appreciated. Side thought: maybe the idea for the sand in Bruno's room came out of the name CasSANDra. 😉👍

Yes, I 100% felt like Bruno was totally neglected and it was tragic he was hidden in the house all that time. It kind of breaks the story a bit for me, because it makes me dislike all the family members who were old enough to remember him. It's strange and icky way to treat someone you supposedly love. Hayley ^_^

it could also be that for the people of the village, he didn't do actual prophesies. He might have just looked at the half dead fish of that lady and told her that if she doesn't feed it, it is going to die. And she and all the others took those simple statements as prophesies and saw the outcomes as inevitable.

I think the reason Pepa didn't want to talk about Bruno is because it hurt too much. It's way easier to be angry than sad. Bruno was the youngest of the triplets, that's her baby brother, who has been missing for 10 years. When Alma saw him at the end of the movie, that wasn't a woman seeing a son she thought was missing. It was a mother seeing a son she thought was dead. They all thought Bruno was dead except for Dolores. . . . . Now here's where I throw out a hypothesis, based on my knowledge of my own family, which is conservative and my knowledge of my mother's Abuela. And another thing, this is a South American family. Pepa got married and had kids, Julieta got married and had kids, Bruno didn't. If you know anything at all about Latin families then you know Alma put massive pressure on Bruno to get married and have children. And any woman in that village would have cut off her own foot to have Madrigal children who have magic of their own. Why wasn't Bruno married? Why didn't Bruno have children? Who is the one uncle nobody ever talks about in super conservative families? That's right, the lgbtqia+ uncle. Is Bruno gay? Maybe, maybe not, he could also be Ace, but he almost certainly isn't hetero.

We don't talk about bruno lol

I feel that Bruno also teaches an important life lesson to the family about how life's not always fair, and just behavior shouldn't be disposable in the face of pointing fingers to feel better. He got the rough end of the stick, but in reality, everyone was suffering with him as the house's state diminished. He made personal sacrifices for his family that he'll never get his due credit for, but he never did it for the credit or to justify himself to his family. The realization is bitter sweet, but it's not without an important lesson that life just sucks sometimes, and not everything needs to be prosecuted. People make mistakes, or in this case, being a prophet doesn't make you everyone else's savior. If you know a storm is approaching and you don't prepare for it, you don't blame the weatherman for mentioning it.

We are here to be Bruno stans

Bruno's power isn't prophesy it's divination it's why he can't truly decipher the prediction divination can be wrong because its a prediction based on one's own power to perceive forward a prophesy is given by a prophet, and is a fate decided by a deity

The worst part is that I, and many other people, have toxic families growing up like this. Always the escape goat, blamed for everything, your efforts mean nothing. It hurts even more because I find myself drawn back to my family, knowing they only want me for my talents and not who I am. Toxic families are so hard to leave because instincts constantly tell you to go back.

Actually, I wondered about Bruno's prophecies? It's never made clear if people went to him for his prophecies or if he went to them unsolicited trying to help. All you know is Bruno isn't a bad guy, but was made into a pariah. The only instances made clear is when his mother went to him about Casa. And when Mirabelle went to him about Casa. I think it's important to know because there's a lot of speculation on whether people were blaming him for telling them what they didn't want to hear after asking him, or if he was enthusiastically tactless in trying to help people, but ended up causing people to recklessly fulfill the prophecies he gave unsolicited. You really can't tell.

Regarding the idea that no-one in his family seems to miss him: my read by the end was that the trash-talking was actually be a sign of them missing him. Like, he's gone, and they're upset, and they are turning that upset into anger *at* Bruno for disappearing (because they're used to blaming him, and it's a socially acceptable way to express upset, and because *why would he leave his family it's his fault I feel this way*). It's not healthy and it certainly doesn't excuse his general mistreatment, but it's certainly in keeping with how emotionally dysfunctional the whole family is. As far as the younger kids go, they likely only know Bruno through vague memories of a time when he would have been reclusive, and the stories they've heard all their life - except Dolores, who actually seems to be trying to convey his point of view to Mirabel in the song.

I have a headcanon that the gifts aren't random, they're given by the person who protects the candle. (Antonio being the first chosen gift from Mirabel, as its not done in a way that 'upholds the community(aka the family).' Sure, its a great gift, but comparing his gift to the others it just feels different. Its about his passion, what he likes. I'm sure Camille didn't want to be the man of 1000 faces, or Dolores being the ultimate spy. Mirabel's sister had a passion for dancing at one point, but became a body builder, so we know these characters's gifts aren't really connected to their passions.) Their grandmother had shelter, but they needed food and water (the aunt), health (the mom), and safety. That last one can be assured if you can tell the future. Just another thing thrusted upon him. Its also really interesting, and idk if this was just a feeling I got because my family is similar, but I don't think they really cared about upholding the community as much as the grandmother was upholding order and control. Its a sanctuary...that she runs, with her rules.

It was a very toxic family. What appalled me was at the kids birthday party. When they took a family picture not even Mirabelle's parents noticed she wasn't with them. She was as much of second class citizen as Bruno.

As the Scapegoat I HATE the mentality that its out job to forgive and apologize, and try to make a space to fit in. I think Bruno should have truly left. He has severe mental trauma that only Maribel can probably help him with since it seems her special power is therapy. My dude chose to live in the damn walls with rats eatting scraps to avoid helping the family create a new scapegoat, just, so little self esteem even he believes everything is his fault. As a Bitter Scapegoat Abuella DESERVED to lose everything and neither Mirabel or Bruno have ANYTHING to apologize for. They were abused.

The Bruno case is the reason why I hate this movie so much. This "perfect family" who care about each other easily turned their backs on him. They are hypocrites. And the fact that it is so easily forgiven in the end and this poor Bruno still wants to live with them is heartbreaking...

I am Bruno with the isolation and Marebelle when wanting to feel Special; the way they called me eccentric is telling

Also a gift like Bruno's means that he could VERY MUCH see future wars or murders and stop them. Like i DUNNO MAYBE SO WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS MOTHER DOESN'T HAPPEN AGAIN. Almost like the Casita was giving Abuela the perfect tool to avoid hardships or at least see them coming.

This movie takes ‘don’t shoot the messenger’ to a whole new level. Also why blame Bruno for his powers of truth telling of all people? It’d be so much easier for a petty person to blame the bad tempered redhead (why is this stereotype still a thing) when your crops get hailed on or your well dries up or your hang dried laundry is soaked yet again because a certain somebody can’t keep it together. I think it would’ve been cool to add one more song showing her vulnerability from feeling pressured to always stay happy no matter what goes wrong, and how forcing a smile to mask her pain builds up her stress until she goes BOOM then she feels awful about the damage a storm she caused did to the people who could have possibly passive aggressively caused that meltdown. From my experiences, I think HER powers would be the biggest burden. It would come with a lot of pent up anger and self blame which would lead to worsening mood swings and more disaster (which is probably why she struggles with her emotions as much as she does) Though I could be wrong, from what it sounds like, Bruno telling his prediction about dreary weather on the wedding day to the weather influencing bride who has been known to have a problem with mood swings looks entirely like a self fulfilling prophecy. I really want to know if it would have been rained if Bruno never told her and she would have had nothing to be upset about. Of course, something else could have easily made her upset, but still makes me wonder.

I also want to bring up the fact that the grandmother receives basically no consequences for treating everyone horribly, especially Bruno. They all just say, "Oh. You have trauma too? All is forgiven." She deserved more consequences for her actions. She shouldn't be just instantly forgiven for maintaining decades of generational trauma. Ultimately, forgiveness should probably be given, seeing as the entire point of the movie was getting past generational trauma, but there should have probably been a little more outrage when the discovery that she's behind it all was made. I dunno, I just don't want kids growing up thinking that they HAVE to forgive everyone who wrongs them. Sometimes people do things that shouldn't be forgiven. But that's just my two cents.

Nice coincidence, just rewatched this movie yesterday.

What I’m pissed about is how the towns people got mad that his power did what it was meant to do. He told the future, they knew his power was to tell the future, he says something bad happens, that bad thing happens, somehow that’s his fault.

I felt so sorry for him. It’s ruff being alone in a room full of people especially family. He deserved better 😢

The ENTIRE family other than Bruno is the villain in the movie, as far as I'm concerned.

My big nag about Encanto was that it feels like a metaphor for growing up and realizing your family are just people with their own struggles. The house cracking was her becoming disillusioned with her family and finally seeing the cracks that were always there. Bruno was probably the uncle who was really observant, and would probably get drunk and point out everyone's bullshit. He knew the eavesdropping sister had a crush on a big dude, but didn't know what to do about it.

I kinda see this movie as also about the pressure put on people to contribute to their community and fit into a role because there's other family members like Luisa and Isabela that are pressured to act a certain way

We should talk more about Alma. Then, we don’t talk about Alma-ma-ma-ma.

Encanto is a beautiful movie. I love it so much, but it makes me kind of depressed. Poor Bruno. Poor Mirabel. Ugh. Its so sad. And the fact that the ONLY person to stand up to that witch was Mirabel makes me so mad. Like, will that hag never know how screwed up everyone was because of her?

To be fair, I think the rooms aren't exactly the house's doing. It can't think. I think it's more like... the house trying to give them the best space it can provide--and it knows how to do that by going off their relationship with the magic. So everyone's room ends up reflecting their relationship with their powers. That's why Isabela and Antonio's rooms are so vibrant and full of life because their powers are a joy to them and they let the magic flow through them freely. Bruno's room might not have started out the way it is now, but I imagine the more afraid he became of his visions and the more resentful he became of the magic that was creating a chasm between himself and his family, the greater the chasm inside his room became and the more harsh and barren the land around it. That's why I figured Mirabel never got her own room because she had no need for it--the whole house was hers to enjoy and explore. Because the house isn't sentient, it doesn't know that she would need anything more if it senses that the magic in her and the magic it possesses are exactly the same, but everyone else's is different so they have to have a separate place. At least that's how I interpreted it.