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EARLY ACESSS: encanto (Patreon)

Published:
2024-04-28 14:37:09
Imported:
2024-08

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AwkA Encanto

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Joe Hoy

For what it's worth, I think this movie stands up to several re-watches if you want to pick up on most of the subtleties going on in the background. When we first see Abuela Alma telling the story of the Encanto to young Mirabel, she doesn't say anything more about Abuelo Pedro beyond stating he was "lost". She's spent her whole life shielding her children and grandchildren from just how traumatic his murder (as a result of their attempt to escape violence) was to her. Visually, we see not only the creation of the Casita Madrigal, but also the changing of the surrounding land, effectively creating an enchanted village cut off from the conflict and violence going on outside. All of the gifts given to the triplets - control over the weather, supernatural healing and ability to see future events - can be seen as being intended to protect their enclosed community from outside harm, and the gifts given to the grandchildren all support that in one way or another. Mirabel figures out that Alma's motivation the entire time has been to prevent anyone she loves (along with the villagers and their descendants who tried to escape with her and Pedro) going through the pain and trauma she experienced, but she has come to see the magic and gifts as the only way that can happen, and when Mirabel does not receive a gift in the expected way, Alma is (understandably) terrified. From that point onwards, Alma becomes a prisoner of her own fear and sense of responsibility, and the more fearful she becomes, the more she tries to bury it and (unintentionally) starts trying to encourage the family to appear "perfect"... Pepa increasingly struggles with her emotions, Bruno literally *exiles himself from the entire community* for fear of doing more harm than good, Isabela agrees to a marriage and future she doesn't want and Luisa drives herself to the point of exhaustion - the fear has become contagious. When Casita Madrigal collapses, in the background the hills that cut the village off from the waterfalls where Pedro died can be seen splitting in two. For what little my interpretation may be worth, I've always seen this as illustrating that no matter how wonderful and miraculous things can seem that help us recover from trauma, eventually we must face and process that trauma in order to move forward in a healthy way - for the sake of those we love and care about as well as our own. Only when Alma returns to the falls (and finds Mirabel there) is she finally able to open up about how horrific Pedro's death was and how deeply it scarred her, and that maybe - after all this time - opening up to the outside world isn't so frightening. The village helps rebuild Casita Madrigal with no expectation of the family's magic returning, and the Madrigals acknowledge how amazing and important Mirabel has been to all of them despite not having an explicit magical "gift". Only then is the magic restored to the village through Mirabel's hand - and while the magic is restored, the path to the outside world is no longer cut off. Mirabel's role is to not only show that a person can be incredible even if they aren't granted a magical superpower, but that by not being defined by a specific gift, a person can see deeper and further as a result - in other words, magic can come from within.