La Familia Madrigal but their gifts secretly make them miserable for 6 minutes straight

[@axolotlanarchy5958]

Pepa makes me so sad bc whenever she’s upset the first reaction is always “Stop doing that” instead of “What’s wrong”. At least she has Felix :(

[@franksonatra]

Yeah, she is literally never allowed to acknowledge her negative emotions and that is messed up. I get her.

[@sallyface5259]

and Camilo, that one scene in the movie when he was comforting her before getting struck by lightning

[@Ch50304]

Yes, that is awful. Not being able to handle your negative emotions and just let them pass..

[@xd._.28234]

and her son

[@xd._.28234]

@@sallyface5259 yeah,so adorable

[@brittanylawless680]

Antonio was so scared about not having a gift because he sees how everyone treats Mirabel.

[@Aiyenolobia]

He dosen't want to be treated the same way people treats Mirabel :(

[@aspencows]

😭

[@ΒερόνικαΠαραλοπούλου]

Yeah 😭😭😭

[@annabeatrizdossantoslucena]

Antonio is a little angel on this movie!

[@xd._.28234]

the fact that such young kiddo feeling like shit because how adults treated his older cousin,and not wanting to experience it too it's heartbreaking

[@AlanomalyOfficial]

Bruno deserved to be apologized to rather than him having to do the apologies.

[@lyndseystrait1513]

Yeah, understatement of the year! How can he still be so sweet after he literally hears his family relentlessly trash talking him? After watching the movie a couple of times, most of the family is talking about Bruno from a place of pain and hurt but still!

[@Protomorfid]

True but it's realistic. Last year I had to apologize for having a mental breakdown just for my friends to talk to me after it was their expectations that pushed me to one

[@FizzyNightShade]

I think the only apology that was warranted from him was the one to Pepa for her wedding day. It wasn't technically his fault, but his comment did cause some undue stress for her on a very special day. Aside from that, everyone else owes him an apology.

[@lyndseystrait1513]

@@FizzyNightShade And MAYBE taking off and leaving for several years. But honestly who could blame him?

[@angelwhispers2060]

The only apology he kind of gets is finally getting a hug from his mother after 45 freaking years... But unfortunately this is a big part of Colombian and a lot of more collectivist cultures. The person who's seen as a f****up has to be the first one to apologize. I wish in the rebuilding of the house thing we could have gotten a couple of short pieces with his sister's apologizing for not standing up for him. Poor Bruno. Like Peppa kissing him on the cheek or something it doesn't have to be verbal but they should have been allowed a moment. You know what I'm saying?

[@clown-cult96]

I don’t think people talk enough about the fact that Luisa is still a teenager and yet the entire village has been treating her like an actual slave since forever.

[@kittenmimi5326]

Yeah luisa's only 19 and as a 19 yr old myself I'm just like wtf cant even imagine that Also mariano's mother just like luisa can u bring the piano. The AUDACITY to just order luisa around when she's not even family or anything just a stranger whose the mom of some guy. Like wouldnt she say please or thank you or what Poor girl she's a friggen slave, at least isabela still gets appreciation and attention luisa not at all

[@aarasko]

EXACTLY

[@kittenmimi5326]

@@strugglesxxx oh gosh. That is horrifying... I dont even wanna imagine

[@DarkShadow-hy6iq]

​@@kittenmimi5326 Luisa's actually 19

[@pixywings]

Luisa is totally my favorite character.

[@rich_cranberry3633]

Bruh Pepa and Abuela relationship throughout the movie was giving me: “You’re not stressed! There’s no such thing as mental health! It’s all in your head”

[@paigelarson9279]

Dude literally and her “clear skies” thing was obviously the toxic positivity bs she’s been hearing since she was 5 years old or whatever. People can’t learn to deal with big emotions if they’re never allowed to feel them

[@rich_cranberry3633]

@@paigelarson9279 FR! I’m glad I’m not the only one who felt like that was an issue

[@knavehons]

Nothing like good ol' gaslighting

[@st3r1l3_d3c4y]

"hAvE yOu TrIEd yOgA☺️😇🙏"

[@spooktoonz]

“It’s all in your head” Really? Cause that cloud above my head is saying otherwise.

[@thegardenofeden847]

Julietta is always wearing an apron and look at those gray hairs, the girl is constantly cooking. And did she the type of injuries those people had. It’s like her gift gives people free reign to do reckless shit.

[@lillypopalt3799]

i mean shes also in her 50s but yeah

[@kairagersemi2274]

@@lillypopalt3799 yes, but compared to her siblings she looks older and more tired due to the constant job

[@Son9]

@@kairagersemi2274 To be fair tho all the triplets look wrung out

[@yokaibuster6754]

@@Son9 Anxiety Am I right?

[@locsoluv94]

Honestly, though. This village isn't THAT big. How are ALL of these people getting so badly injured every. single. day?

[@riripari2042]

Dolores and Peppa must've been the happiest ones in the family when the magic was gone. One is bombarded with loud sounds 24/7 and the other can't properly process her emotions without a rain cloud or high winds forming around her. I wouldn't be so eager to get my powers back if I couldn't control them.

[@Furienna]

We can see how Pepa actually is happy to get her power back and rains indoors at the end of the movie (Félix is cheering her on, of course).

[@NeyamRye]

Fr

[@pathetic2399]

Dolores actually looked sad when she couldn’t hear anything anymore, and what I’m about to say applies to Pepa, too, but while the powers had negative effects, they had them nearly their entire lives, Pepa even longer than Dolores, and they were a part of them. I can imagine that it would be depressing to not be able to do something you could once do anymore, and would be akin to losing one of your senses, like your eyesight or something. Plus, they’d have to deal with the feeling of no longer being “special” even if it was temporary.

[@erickchristensen746]

Doesn’t matter since the magic comes back in the end anyways. Ruins the entire point of the movie

[@aaliyahras1]

emotional control really isn’t that hard to understand…

[@brieeluvsbruno6197]

Bruno went ten years without his sisters, any hugs, any birthdays, without his nieces and nephews, practically without a life~ all because of a stupid gift that made everyone hate him

[@kseniaboytseva4714]

rather, not because of the gift, but the "opinions" of others about his ability to warn. Everything could have turned out differently if people had listened to his observations of others (and not blamed for the truth about the "rain", the death of a fish, that someone would gain weight and someone would go bald). If for years there were no such problems in a family that hid its problems, sacrificed something instead of solving everything together. Moreover, not to push Bruno away, what will happen gives others the opportunity to prepare. And whether it's good or not depends on how people look at it. Because any experience is useful in its own way for further growth.

[@suffering9481]

@@kseniaboytseva4714 so basically: Bruno warns, family doesent like and sed

[@Furienna]

Yep... 😢 And if you only knew how much I love him.

[@snickersbar4995]

exactly, and in the end, he never really got a proper apology. just a hug and he was accepted back which is still messed up. how come they had to give him permission to come back into the family? he missed 10 years of his life living in isolation

[@Furienna]

​​​@@snickersbar4995I think you misunderstood that part of the movie. Sometimes, a hug is as good as a verbal apology, and really, Bruno seemed to not demand anything from his family at that point and only wanted to come back to them.

[@grat.2242]

Bro luisa has it the worst. Everyone gets to have fun at the party, while she's stuck carrying people's donkeys and doing work the whole time.

[@esmegigigenevievesqualor6029]

Fr no one gives her a dang break- her and pepa need to take a vacation😭😭and Julieta

[@oh_omo7989]

she’s basically a servant to the family

[@moshiella]

good thing she finally took a break at the end of the movie,she deserves it

[@punkst4r]

and julieta cooking:(

[@elisethecoolest]

The worst part is a lot of the things they ask of her are unnecessary like moving churches when they could just plan things better. Same with herding donkeys, if they kept a better eye out for their donkeys instead of relying on Luisa.

[@MYLAR.]

I still haven’t watched this movie but how much you wanna bet Bruno’s knocking on wood drove Dolores INSANE

[@luvondarox]

I bet you anything she listened to his telenovelas, though!

[@MYLAR.]

@@luvondarox you’re so right oh my god

[@meriotheart]

@@luvondarox There is this youtuber that makes skits of this, Niqita or something I think? She also makes videos about marvel and being a veteran. I personally love her Encanto skits

[@crazypunkcat4880]

@@meriotheart Her name is Nicque Marina and I love her YT shorts about Dolores!

[@Felmo-z5g]

i havent too! but im obsessed abt it ♡-♥

[@amethystrose1888]

Someone should gift dolores a set of noise-canceling headphones. They'd probably dull her powers enough that she could deal better.

[@ShoGirlGeek]

I like to think that her room is sound proofed, just so the poor girl can sleep.

[@marilynmonroe8002]

@@ShoGirlGeek Unfortunately it's not. Because she once said that Luisa's eye twitching kept her up all night.

[@Iusethis4comments]

"This video of Encanto is brought to you by the Bose Quiet Comfort noise cancelling headphones™️"

[@scarletrevon522]

Lol for real tho get the girl some ear plugs

[@aurascade4465]

@@marilynmonroe8002 when she said ‘all night’ I’m pretty sure she meant ‘all throughout the rest of the party’ tho, not necessarily overnight when they should be sleeping

[@keeprkyd]

i’m just realizing that there’s a pretty big age gap between Mirabel and Antonio compared to the years between the other kids, i wonder if the family lowkey was scared to have another child in fear of another failed ceremony

[@saberthecoolest]

To be fair Pepa and Julieta were about 40 at the time, which is around the time many people stop having kids (also, there’s already a significant gap between Dolores and Camillo iirc, so the gap between Antonio and Camillo isn’t all that surprising for Pepa’s side of the family)

[@saberthecoolest]

@@artemis3306 makes sense, although compared to the smaller Isabela-Luisa-Mirabel gap, it’s a little more prominent

[@NineLivesBlackCat]

But also, imagine the impact of pregnancy hormones and emotions + potential post partum depression on Pepa... I'd probably take awhile between kids too!

[@OPGAUHEO]

I think it's just the villagers and abuela need so so much time to prepare for dealing with the weather while pepa is pregnant and mostly her childbirth. Cann't imagine.:vvv

[@Fairiive]

I thought the general consensus was that abuela forced Peppa into having another child after Mirables failed ceremony, to check if the miracle still worked. He was born around a year after her ceremony iirc

[@user-dx3jg6er1m]

Imagine marrying & having FIVE KIDS with someone you don't like just so your Grandma can have a more diverse set of tools to use

[@MasterIsabelle]

Oof

[@Janella1235]

"Bro my shit aint big enough for that many kids" -Last words before disaster

[@hardikjindal5171]

That's like almost every marriage in South Asia

[@spiffymiddleschooler36]

Honestly I feel like Dolores was lying to fuck up the wedding, cuz unless she can hear his fucking brainwaves I really don't know why the fuck he would just be randomly talking about wanting five kids, and she was also like mega sad about that

[@ThisReynaRose]

@@spiffymiddleschooler36 Yeah it was confirmed the 5 kids was a lie Dolores told to Isabela to scare her

[@artemxisd34d]

Personally, I believe that the reason Pepa tries to frantically calm herself down literally all the time is because her gift is like Bruno's - it doesn't help the family. It only causes chaos. So she's probably scared that Abuela will treat her the way she treated Bruno, and that she'll be cast out just because of the chaotic gift she was given. That's, from my point of view, the reason Felix and Camilo always try to like calm her down and help her conceal her clouds - her feelings, from Abuela.

[@leavemealonepls2233]

Actually a very good explanation of her current mental health and I really hope -if there’s is an extension of Encanto or another movie- that we get to see a more of Pepa‘s side of the family.

[@krisynthiagomez5883]

Mirabel explains that Pepa’s abilities help with the crops and when she is in a good mood the days are sunny and warm and if she is worried at least the village doesn’t have to worry about droughts. The problem is that she’s expected to keep a sunny mood most of the time and that’s impossible for anyone who’s not a sociopath.

[@yokaibuster6754]

What an Au that would be if Pepa was the one who ran away and Bruno stayed. (This is an idea I had ngl)

[@lilwitch2299]

@@Somespideronline no body said pepa was a sociopath, they said keeping a happy mood almost 24/7 is impossible unless your a sociopath, pepa's not a sociopath so she can't constantly and consistently remain happy

[@krisynthiagomez5883]

@@Somespideronline I meant that Pepa feels emotions like anybody does but because of her powers she expected to have better control over them because bad things like blizzards and hurricanes happen if she doesn’t but it’s impossible to expect anyone who is not a sociopath to have full control over their emotions hence Pepa’s often stressed appearance. I did not mean to imply that I think Pepa is a sociopath as she clearly is not.

[@citrine3424]

Underrated isabela line: “what could I do if I just knew it didn't need to be perfect? It just needed to be? And they'd let me be?”

[@aclassicgarden7065]

RIGHT I HAVE THAT STUCK IN MY HEAD

[@Azazel0183]

who said it was underrated -__-

[@serasintamei]

AND THEN THE “what can you do when you know who you wanna be isn’t perfect, but I’ll still be okay!

[@CarlaSantos-tu7if]

ikr that hit in the fells

[@zakhie_]

@@Azazel0183 You don't necessarily need to say that something is underrated. You know what it means right?

[@PWN3GE]

Abuela was 100% living vicariously through Isabella. She looks the most like a young Abuela, and she's being married to Mariano who looks a lot like Abuelo Pedro. Abuela's forcing Isabela to live the "perfect" life she wishes she could have lived had she not lost her home.

[@kristenyarbrough4287]

There is obvious color coding in the family too. Like pepe and Felix's side are yellows and oranges, and julieta and Augustine's sides are blue and purple. Notably except for Isabella who wears pink. Which is a younger brighter version of abuela wearing red. I think they were color coding Isabella more in line with abuela. Also at the end of the movie when Isabella is allowed to be messy she wears blue

[@stacieh799]

I think the girl in one of Bruno’s visions looks like Isabella too, which caused Mirabel to attempt to fix the miracle by “talking it out” and “hugging,” but the girl was revealed to be Abuela at the end, so Isabella does look like her

[@kristenyarbrough4287]

@@stacieh799 interesting I didn't even consider that

[@Stephungus]

And and also in the picture that all of the children have with Abuela when they get their gift, Abuela only smiles with Isabella, everyone else she has a serious face/is frowning

[@pixelzebra8440]

✨✨GENERATIONAL TRAUMA✨✨

[@torakunoichi]

Also the fact that during the proposal scene abuela tells Luisa to get the piano not allowing her a moment to eat her meal and be with the family, she IMMEDIATELY gets up even though she’s eating

[@nol3918]

it wasn't Abuela, it was Mariano's mom

[@torakunoichi]

@@nol3918 I don’t think it is because that would be considered quite rude to go into someone’s house and start ordering the family around.

[@torakunoichi]

@@nol3918 just watched that scene and you are correct it is marianos mum Jesus how rude of her even if she thinks she being polite

[@BaronVladHarkonnen]

Luisa is a servant to the villagers she’s expected by everyone to serve them when they need her because that’s how Alma presents Luisa to them and they just think she’s always willing to help them out whenever they call.

[@raine_nl2364]

Yeah, that how grandma is. I also experience this *a lot* when I'm just sitting and eating my meal. So we have family member coming, and my grandma cooking outside making sambal or something(i don't remember) and she like: RATNA CAN YOU GET THE SALT! and me who just have one bite on the rendang just like: 😑 So i take the salt, and give it to her, then i sit down and eat, and not long after that she call me again. grandma: RATNA I FORGET ABOUT THE SUGAR CAN YOU TAKE IT AND BRING IT HERE! and i was just like: 🥤🤦🏻‍♀ She call me just when i just want to drink my TEA and i even not half done eating yet. So i take the sugar, i take the brown sugar, the onions, garlic, and all that thing. I take it ALL outside and because it to many i literally hug them. And my mom who see me pass by just like: 😂 This happen when i was 12/13. So after that whenever my grandma ask me for salt or sugar or whatever i bring all of the ingredients. I think it's because I'm the tallest(and literally the strongest girl/woman in our family after my mother. *that why i can relate to Luisa*), there's my uncle but he's a man, and can only make indomie so yeah. Well, at least with helping my grandma my cooking start to taste like her, so i guess is a win for me 😋 i can't wait for this Raya tho I want to learn my grandma special beef this time.

[@darlene.salvacion]

"The only one worried about the magic is you- *and the rats talking in the walls* " She indirectly told her Bruno's behind the walls 🥺

[@OrangeSlices185]

That line plus her part in We Don't Talk About Bruno makes it seem like she really wants to tell someone, but she's too scared to bring up Bruno so she's just trying to drop hints.

[@MaidenOfHusbands]

@@OrangeSlices185 all the lines makes it seem like she literally doesn't know he's in the walls but she just heard him close by

[@SpeedyCheetahCub]

In that same song when she says that Bruno told her that her love would be betrothed to another, and then Isabela cuts her off to talk to Mirabel, you can hear her saying in the background that sometimes she still hears Bruno, but it's implied that she thinks she is just imagining it.

[@tarielkaroldan4106]

@@MaidenOfHusbands I think she already knew Bruno was there, maybe even talked to him and he convinced her to say nothing, that it was for the best. Bruno is a tragic character, spending ten years in a sort of jail that he put himself in, instead of going out, leaving and never using his power again, he stayed put, because he knew his presence may be needed someday

[@Purpie_Slurpie]

@@MaidenOfHusbands except that she literally says in the movie that she knew he was there the whole time lmao

[@retcho212]

The way Isabella immediately shrinks into herself when Abuela shows up, physically becoming smaller. During the whole movie her movements were small and confined, even while dancing her arms never went too far out. During her song she's flinging herself every which way and expressing so much. But when Abuela shows up and starts yelling she holds her arms to her sides and slouches a bit.

[@aquatiger8]

PLUUUUUS plus plus plus, all the new flowers she had just made started withering and died when Abuela started yelling at Mirabel

[@mxxnlight111]

@@aquatiger8 I noticed that too when I watched it again !

[@amytheprettyweirdfangirl3786]

@@aquatiger8 I NEVER NOTICED THAT WHAT- Man, no matter how many times I rewatch this movie there's always something new to notice!

[@eixidiur]

@@aquatiger8 probably the representation of her line "what could i do if i just *grew what i was feeling* in the moment?". much like pepa's clouds, but flowers.

[@amytheprettyweirdfangirl3786]

@@eixidiur Omg you're right! I never even thought of it like that but that makes so much sense! When she's happy she'll grow those beautiful flowers she's known for, but when she's not in a good mood she'll make something completely different every time, or even have them wither away!

[@holopearl1829]

Can we talk about how touch-starved Bruno is? When he receives hugs in the movie, he legit doesn't know how to react

[@Furienna]

My baby... 😢 I wish I could hug him and kiss him every day.

[@gottakeepaneyeoutforselene5119]

@@Furienna 💀

[@ramadrian248]

@@Furienna 🗿

[@ilovechocolate8302]

@@Furienna Be so fr right now

[@imbored9944]

@@Furienna girl he probably stank and he’s a cartoon man who is 50 not a baby

[@l8umz]

Pepa needs a break fr 💀💀

[@msmilan_19]

I’d be mad too if my clothes and hair were always wet 😭

[@nutella.mp4853]

all of them

[@l8umz]

@@nutella.mp4853 True

[@Trianglewithaface12]

Pepa needs Waterproof clothes

[@aikaameya3930]

@@Trianglewithaface12 or one of those umbrella hats!!

[@starburrow]

“The curse is back” Bro for real now

[@msmilan_19]

I still have to wonder if it was a “miracle” or an actual curse 😭

[@herbertn.oafallas3565]

@@msmilan_19 I interpret the ending as a resolution to those fiascos of drama. Isabella found her real happiness and she really was. Luisa is now relaxing,confident and learns to accept help. Dolores is now at peace and her lovelife is now booming. Pepa now can control her powers because she is now free,she found a healthy way to manage her emotions. Camilo still the Camilo we know. Mirabel now found her worth to the family. Abuela realized that she became just hard to her family because she's just scared to lose the "miracle" that given to her,REMEMBER...She witness Infront of her wide eyes how her husband died.

[@imagaybanana2004]

@@herbertn.oafallas3565 Amen!

[@ghost35789]

@@msmilan_19 probably a curse that seemed like a good thing, like the zodiac curse in fruits basket

[@TT-wv7qs]

@@msmilan_19 nah its a curse, why have super powers if their gunna hurt u wheter its mentally, emotionally or physically tbh

[@mvo9856]

My theory is that all of their "powers" are manifestations of their generational trauma. Julieta wishes that there had been some way Abuela could have healed Abuelo, Bruno thought, "If only Abuela and Abuelo had known those bad people were coming, maybe they could have done something to stop it", Pepa just straight-up has anxiety, Isabella felt the need to be perfect to cheer up her unstable family members, Luisa feels the need to be strong to hold the family together, Dolores became hyper-aware of every sound because when you have an emotionally unstable parent noticing a door or cabinet shut just a little too loudly is a survival tactic, Camilo is a trickster and joker at heart but his fear that this doesn't make him a useful family member made him wish he could be "someone else." Antonio is literally the only family member whose power has nothing to do with generational trauma... why? Because it was Mirabel that spoke to him before his door ceremony--- not Abuela. Mirabel told him it was totally okay to be himself no matter what. What did Abuela tell Mirabel before her ceremony? She retold their most traumatic family memory. It's fair to assume that she told every family member this horrible traumatic memory before every door ceremony. The fact that Mirabel was the one to break this cycle shows that Casita chose the right person to become the new family Matriarch. This also explains why Casita didn't give Mirabel her own room. Casita wanted Mirabel to be there for future family members before their door ceremonies. Been kinda wanting to make a KZbin video to explore this in-depth.

[@aidanpeterson9159]

You should definitely make a video!

[@yaelpignol7258]

This is so fascinating !

[@donaldcase4716]

I like this theory, a lot. Subscribed so I will see it when you do the video.

[@therealspaceman420]

This weirdly makes a lot of sense

[@Ch50304]

This is so interesting and really delves into the symbolism.

[@WhisperNanny]

Did anyone else love that Louisa was always obvious about how much she loved Mirabel and never treated her like she was worthless

[@dyingsanity.]

that’s only because she was her favorite, she didn’t show any of that warmth to her other family members 😐

[@zoe_401]

She knows how she feels because she thinks without her gift she would be worthless, and mirabel don't have a gift so they think she is worthless so she tries to compensate for the lack of love

[@dyingsanity.]

@@zoe_401 I at least hope she started showing more love to her other sister post-movie to make up for all that they missed

[@KollbjornYT]

I have. Also adorable how Mirabel reciprocates

[@dyingsanity.]

@@KollbjornYT well most people would

[@logicalowl905]

I feel so bad for Pepa. When she says “A thunder will lead to a drizzle, and a drizzle will lead to a sprinkle!” It really shows you the amount of pressure shes under. Like a sprinkle isn’t even that much but shes freaking out abt it like shes abt to cause the next hurricane

[@Isabelle-hv6ny]

And thats how she caused the hurricane on her wedding😂 Its sadly ironic

[@jessicatripp5129]

She's a textbook Anxiety case too.

[@thejasminedragonmerchant6843]

It's honestly sad that her powers trap her in a vicious cycle of "if I panic, then I'll make bad weather, which leads to more panic as I try to calm myself, which leads to more bad weather, etc."...tbh her powers look cool, but they'd be absolutely nightmarish to live with. No wonder she's always frantic.

[@charlotteb6450]

i also love how you can actually see isabella's breathing quicken out of panic when the whole 'he wants 5 babies' thing happens god the animators are amazing

[@route283east]

1:32 - Isabela: "My vagina is NOT built for that!" Dolores - "...mine is."

[@cleverjade巧玉]

@@route283east LMAO

[@fernandaduran1760]

In spanish says She gonna give the family 5 LITTLE MIRACLES (not even 5 babies...)

[@bloxitictypo4747]

@@route283east lmao

[@Lifebegivinglemons]

Bruh fuck that shit, babies can really hurt why tf would you want to be put through FIVE births.. unless of course she wants five babies then ok but damn boi

[@geeker6350]

This whole movie could have easily been Mirabel's villain origin story.

[@Dewdear]

@shiny_boi_cammi Tru

[@anhotien2573]

I really thought it waa gonna be another Maleficent type of Disney movie until she found Bruno. I couldn't even finish watching the miracle song because it was so painful. How hasn't she gone insane is beyond me. On that note the magic was a dick for letting her suffer all that just to teach them a lesson. Yes they're all happy in the end but irl those years of traumatizing memories wouldn't just go away that easily.

[@Nobody-cd1eh]

@shiny_boi_cammi it would have been mine

[@darkecofreak23]

Thank God her gift wound up being the Heart of the family.

[@hinasakukimi]

this is basically the reverse of syndrome in the incredibles

[@alev1l745]

ok but we arent going to talk about how Dolores couldnt make loud noises for 15 years because of a stupid bath & body works candle?

[@Cuteduckylover33]

BATH & BODY HELP- 💀

[@lloydmontgomerygarmadon813]

If it’s a bath and body works candle then the scent should be “misery and pain”

[@thescholarnerd7962]

NOT THE BATH AND BODY WORKS CANDLE HAHAHAA- This is the best comment I've ever read.

[@wolfiegirl83]

"a bath and body works candle" BRO I CAN'T 🤣😭💀

[@shhvylerrss]

@@lloydmontgomerygarmadon813 “introducing miser and pain sure to keep the family crying and you feeling like a powerful dictator now you can torment your family buy 2 get 1 free”

[@jozefienvoets2744]

I’m willing to bet actual money that Camilo is doing such a good job calming Pepa down because he learned it from Felix

[@thestrangeandstupidone8116]

Ok how much money are we talking? >:)

[@That-one-child-at-school]

Im saying 100 U.S.A. dollars

[@ImaginaMoonie]

I am willing to bet my only 10$ for this

[@karmicgal344]

Hear me out... Felix didn't teach him how to calm down Pepa 'cause he felt like that was his responsibility and didn't want that pressure for the kids but Camilo would still attempt to whenever his dad wasn't there for her

[@jacksont9455]

Yeah, but the poor kid shouldn’t have to feel responsible for an adult’s emotions. It’s one thing for him to care and to help out, but Camilo carries a heavier burden than he lets on

[@deviouschimp4663]

I feel the most for Dolores... she was so happy without her gift, and was able to express her self loud and boldly. Then the gift came back... right back into sensory overload 😭

[@workingonit9699]

Fr, I can't even stand 5 MINUTES of sensory overload, poor Dolores

[@thejasminedragonmerchant6843]

I hope she got some nice noise-canceling headgear (earmuffs, maybe? I bet Mirabel would totally make some nice ones if Dolores asked for the help) at the end of the film. Her gift seems absolutely exhausting.

[@EllaBonbon]

Then again if she ever got used to it and went to not hearing as much, it might feel like there’s cotton in your ears

[@theorangeheadedfella]

people out here worrying for a fictional woman

[@Panacea246]

@@theorangeheadedfella Yeah dude, the whole point of fictional stories is to feel for and relate to the characters in them. Who pissed in your coffee?

[@queenratiganthefirst5442]

NGL, if my whole family took a portrait without me, I'd blow that damn candle out.

[@buttersofi]

LMAO same though, put water on it

[@mightychondria666]

Goodbye bitch **fans it out**

[@vavrie]

I would bury it in a graveyard

[@cheeseck7205]

Accidentally breathe a little too hard near it 😭

[@Zmantan2281]

Same HAHAH but after i blew it, i will hide bc i’m literally scared of my mom but if i was mirabel i will still hide🥲 HAHAH edit: omg 778?! that's the many likes i have got like ever! ty guys!! like everyone says MOM IM FAMOUS Edit2: maygad tysm guys for 807!!

[@Gyarren]

Thoughts: Pepa's gift is actually quite unfortunate because not only is she constantly drenched, but she's getting others rained or snowed on. Her weather is also an obvious disruption to the goings-on of those around her, such as having wind blowing things around. Not only this, but she can't even seem to have an emotion without everyone knowing how she feels. She can't lie, be sad, angry, or even nervous privately. Delores is indeed probably losing her mind, because she doesn't seem to be able to turn off her super hearing. She can hear EVERYTHING going on in a wide radius, and I'm sure the sound of so many people talking, eating, playing music, going to the bathroom, doing...other things...is absolutely maddening. Isabella was, to put it crudely, almost pressured into becoming a brood mare to bring forth another generation to endure the same pressures as the rest of the family. Not to mention the expectation that everything she did and said should be perfect at all times, right down to symmetrical flowers.

[@lightfractals]

i just realised that their gifts are actually roles in family trauma. Isa is put under pressure of being perfect, Luisa is being taken advantage of, Pepa is told to bottle up her emotions, Camilo is having problems with his identity/is a forgotten middle child and Bruno is an outcast just because people don't understand his words and so on

[@paulnewton2284]

And their gifts represent the steps needed to repair that trauma. They need to talk (Antonio), listen (Dolores), be open with their emotions (Pepa), be flexible and willing to change (Camilo), grow together (Isabela), heal each other (Julieta), lift each other up and lend each other their strengths (Luisa), and look forward to the future rather than dwell in the past (Bruno).

[@Moon-sw4oz]

Very true very

[@paulnewton2284]

Also to add on to Ireki's point, Dolores is always on edge because of what she hears, Julietta is forced to be the main nurturer when the person who should fulfill that role is not, and Antonio turns to unconventional outlets to release his stress (first Mirabel then his animals).

[@Memelord-md5hs]

@@Pablo_Martin_aa it isn't because he's Trans It's more so he is constantly changing himself to match the needs of his family. Notice how he is constantly shape-shifting to help those around him and it means that in the end he is barely himself.

[@gabrielfel3669]

Honestly, Camilo has no problems with identity, if you want to have some flaw in him, then say that he has a useless power for the village, it makes a thousand times more sense. Oh, and I think it's important to mention that Abuela is also part of this list, she just tried to make everyone useful because she thought it was the only way to honor her husband's sacrifice, she sacrifices herself, She hurt everyone by being hurt too, and although she is the antagonist for half of the movie until the "Oroguitas" part, she is still a victim of the war and the weight that is carry an entire village alone, and without a gift, of course

[@im_bored_hi_]

Isabela: *Literally just has fun as any young adult with magic would, especially after having do use her powers in the way other people asked her to her whole life* Abuela: She’s out of control!

[@sailornamaste997]

“Out of control” is also such a gross thing to say because like… in that context, it’s Isabela is out of ABUELA’s control. Abuela groomed her to be perfect and now that she’s taking 5 minutes to be herself, she’s “out of control”. She didn’t for one second think that maybe isabela would want to be in control of her own life, her own time, her own powers.

[@kaitlynboss3497]

Yeah, we all know an adult like that >.>

[@Potato_tomato47]

She punched a guy in the nose with a flower

[@Mortyc147]

@@Potato_tomato47 and looked like a baddie doing it 💅

[@Memistical]

@@sailornamaste997 I think you’re overthinking that one

[@grace4535]

i love how frickin quick felix is to validate pepa. 11/10 support husband

[@kidsAbellard-uk9yn]

Even if he is also in a bad mood.

[@not-so-obvious_autism777]

Hecks naw try 1000/10 best boi 💛💞✨

[@Skyv111]

to the point that actually he's all silenced and almost a "mandilón" though: "You telling this story, or am I? I'm sorry, mi vida, go on"

[@gotchufam2964]

FACTS! He’s so good with calming her down and being supportive. 10/10

[@roguejester4986]

And Mira's dad for being protective and more understanding of her situation.

[@lucia98377]

as a latina I can confirm that having parents who invalidate your mental health is extremely common, sadly :') me and my siblings have been through that and watching encanto felt like holding back tears

[@thepapistyourmotherwarnedy752]

My brother had a friend from Colombia and he watched this movie with his mom (who is a LOT like Alma) and he bawled the entire time and she was like “what’s wrong with you???”

[@Furienna]

@@thepapistyourmotherwarnedy752 Ouch...

[@vince3523]

Eh you get used to it

[@redguyslave409]

For real. My parents will see that I'm always either eating, sleeping, or on my phone or tv instead of going out and then they'll say "You're fine. Also go and clean the kitchen, bathroom, and your room."

[@keiishine]

i wish latino families took mental health seriously. it’s not biblical demons, it’s a freaking chemical imbalance in the brain! 🙁

[@shayseraph5451]

I had the thought recently that the reason Dolores keeps her hair up the way she does could be because the sound of her hair constantly rustling right next to her ears would drive her insane. If true it just goes to show how their gifts affect them on even the smallest of levels, and often for the worst

[@redguyslave409]

Oh nice head cannon! That would make sense! If she can hear an eyetwitch, imagine how horrible it must be to blink all the time for her

[@NeyamRye]

Frr

[@Someone-or8tp]

@@redguyslave409 for body based sounds, we always block those out automatically. thankfully, she wouldn't be able to hear them, I don't think. there's literally a disorder in which people with a normal level of hearing end up hearing their body sounds. eyes blinking, heart beating, bones and muscles moving, skin shifting. like, that's a real thing. so Dolores would hopefully be automatically blocking those sounds out. it's just everything else bombarding her.

[@taddad2641]

actually i iamgine its cause of abuella wanting her to keep an ear out at all times.

[@VIVIENNE_222]

Luisa is literally carrying the whole world. The whole world’s on her shoulders, if you will.

[@NyttAura]

She's like a female Atlas.

[@missyterry7509]

Look the movie. Luisa is not only LITERALLY carrying the world, but in a scene ACTUALLY carrying a world ball

[@victorsamuraipro6973]

Uh not really its figurative language and if you see it was not actually the world but a ball of stone with paint.No crust, no mantel, no core, no anything that the world HAS

[@pacicidal]

@@victorsamuraipro6973 bro can't you just not be a Debbie downer for five seconds we literally know it's a metaphor

[@MaidenOfHusbands]

Even carrying the sun lol

[@sapphirewriter8349]

It wasn't the magic making them miserable. It was just they were so pressured to being perfect and Abuela put so much on them. But when Isa was able to make her own flowers she was still happy with her magic. She just wanted to use it her own way. Same with Pepa. When she let herself let loose she could be happy with her powers. Plus I think everyone would have been sad if Casita remained a normal house cuz Casita had a personality too.

[@CheshireCesare]

Agree with everything, including Casita getting its own powers back. It played as much of a character in the film as any of the Madrigals! I also read somewhere that there's a theory that Abuelo Pedro's spirit (represented by butterflies) is the one that powers the Casita and watches over the family.. I could totally see that!! 🦋🏡

[@beeperbee]

my theory is that casita is abuela's husband in spirit form. casita always makes sure the family is safe, especially mirabel since she has no magic. it seemed like casita knew how important mirabel was to the family. always letting mirabel know to hang in there. i love this movie so much :D

[@notbot2648]

@@beeperbee I'd argue that Mirabel does have a gift, though. It's just not obvious like everyone else's. One thing you might notice is that many of the characters' clothes are a reflection of their powers. Dolores has little motifs that look like sound waves, Isabela's dress is very floral, Pepa has sun earrings and sunny waves on the collar of her yellow dress, Julietta has healing herbs embroidered all over her clothes, Camilo has chameleons on his poncho, Luisa has barbells on her skirt, Bruno has hourglasses on his poncho, even Antonio has animals on his clothes before he gets his ability to talk to animals. Mirabel is covered in butterflies. The candle has a very prominent butterfly on it. Mirabel is the living embodiment of the miracle, which is why it flickers and weakens along with every time Mirabel loses hope. This is also why she seems to be the only one who can communicate with casita on the level that she does, why her door "disappeared," and why casita came back to life when she turned the front door for the first time. She doesn't have a room because casita itself is her "room." The love and hope that Pedro had for Alma and his children is what led him to sacrifice himself for them and the power of that caused the miracle and allowed them to, well, fly free like butterflies. Mirabel's love and hope helps Luisa, Isabela, Bruno, and Abuela to see how they were trapped in fear and to free themselves to become happier, healthier people. It's subtle, but I think the signs are all there.

[@voidwalker2456]

I think in some cases the magic does make them miserable, in case of doleras (I probably botched the spelling) she suffer from chronic sensory overload, Pepa has to suffer with getting soaked whenever she gets ticked off

[@roebear]

@@voidwalker2456 that would piss me off even more yk? like you're already angry and now you're also soaking wet and can't escape it. I wouldn't be able to get out of that cycle of anger unless i had someone like felix

[@jinga9862]

I feel like Julieta doesn't mind her job because she enjoys cooking/being a mother/housewife. Like, the only times she is shown as sad about anything is when her daughter is upset

[@lexezlao]

just because you love your job doesn't mean you can do it 24/7 tbh

[@redguyslave409]

I agree she might have it easier, but still imagine people depending on you to make them food whenever they get cuts or maybe have literal cancer

[@derrickdaniels3955]

@@redguyslave409 I don't know why but its giving BOTW

[@Didagg]

@@redguyslave409 Ever heard of doctors???

[@redguyslave409]

@@Didagg ever heard of exaggeration???

[@lucasfraczek4320]

I love seeing the theories that Mirabel's gift _is_ the miracle, her undying support and love for her family despite their differences is what keeps the miracle alive.

[@soniccookie655]

Or that she was free of the burdens of the magic. I also like the theories that she was given the gift of empathy and understanding, and the gift of talking to Casita, since she seems to be the only one who does that.

[@XiELEd4377]

There was a theory that ever since Mirabel's ceremony, the house started cracking more, because she felt she wasn't accepted anymore ever since the ceremony (she tried finding ways to see what her miracle was, and already gave up during the events of the movie). Alma never hugged Mirabel ever since she was 5.

[@godsplayingfield]

one of the theories i’ve seen which i subscribe to is that while she doesnt have a magical gift, her gift is the miracle itself. like how Abuela has no magical gift but is kinda the cae taker of the candle and the leader of the family. the woman is getting on in years and probs doesnt have long left and the house chose Mirabel to be the next caretaker/owner, compounded by the final scene no less. she doesnt have a door because they are alternate worlds essentially that the house has no power over (shown by mira going into Bruno’s) and Abuela still lives so Mirabel cant take over yet. the cracks started because the family is the miracle and they need to be in harmony for the magic to keep working.and we all know how the family, especially Abuela, reacted to Mirabel not getting a power. and the cracks speed up the worse Mirabel feels as well, they all affect it but Mirabel and Abuela seem to have the strongest influence on it.

[@savemeimanobodylostonline4279]

I think it’s also to remind the family that they are human, and to not lose sight of what the gifts’ meaning really are

[@speinz9430]

I don’t like those theories because if that were true she would technically still get her own room. I just like the idea that during her gift ceremony the house just kinda glitched out like how it did later and that’s why she didn’t get a gift. I also just like the idea that she didn’t give a gift which gives her the ability to help others as she doesn’t have the burden that they have to carry. And even then she still has her own suffering as despite not knowing the misery that her family members go through she still wants to be helpful so she wishes she had a gift but yet she never gets one.

[@Lifeless_Asian]

Fun Fact: When they restored their -gifts- curses, dolores is the only one on the door portrait that looks sad. She was so happy that she can finally get some peace and quiet 😭

[@valenciageode25]

I hope they give her earplugs or something. They won’t completely block the sound, but it’ll make it better.

[@M.A.C.01]

Dolores and her mom have some of the worst “gifts”

[@Leia28293]

Maybe after casita restored she will be able to adjust her super hearing like isabela being able to grow different kind of plants aside from pink flowers

[@geeking424]

@@Leia28293 yeh that’s a great theory!

[@EterPuralis]

Well, considering her power is most like caused by a family dynamic where she's literally had to use her ears and tip toe around not to upset anyone, I'd say she should be able to tune it down herself now there's no cause for it anymore.

[@burnttoast269]

The ability to carry three babies on one arm is a gift in itself lmao

[@finlaycleeve7997]

and also fall onto the floor and get up again without dropping any

[@ryleigh3847]

That's what I've been sayin!

[@tinabastarache2674]

i was thinking that on my first viewing. my arm would been killing me. and oh so that's Abuela's gift

[@mr.trophy0912]

Yea lmao

[@Pineapleberry5974]

Yep

[@vorobuh_the_1]

People don’t talk enough about Madrigals getting an animal whisperer and the next day a bunch of donkeys get out and the village’s first instinct isn’t to ask him but to go to Luisa who is already doing 5 other things

[@LupinsMoonstone]

Juliettas gift was actually damaging, because shes not gonna be around forever and every single person (child and adult) have become reliant on her to heal every cut they have. What are they gonna do when she dies? The adults of the town are damaging their children by teaching them to be reliant on one person when it comes to their health

[@theresachacon1122]

I feel like if there is a series to go along with the movie, she should have a class about health and medicine that way when she's gone, the people will be able to fend for themselves when it come to their health.

[@lexystar45]

@@theresachacon1122 Yes her powers would hinder any medical advancement in the village , but she obviously doesn’t have knowledge in that area to teach people because She just naturally heals people through food .

[@houndandhandbag]

That reminds me of the old Elfquest comic, when the healer left the village. All the villagers were freaking out; no one knew how to look after themselves.

[@kenzij]

Not to mention it can't actually be good for people's immune systems for every germ to just be magiced away.

[@Lily-gz3ip]

@@kenzij i guess it doesnt work like that-

[@c0rlap1s]

Pepa's gift kinda sucks tbh like everyone knows your emotions plus you can accidentally cause natural disasters when nervous? The would would be gone if I had her gift like there would be thunderstorms left and right Edit: OMG 2.9k likes 😱

[@ItsTanuki0_Clock]

Imagine when she went into labor 3 TIMES

[@isaiahlozano5301]

@@ItsTanuki0_Clock Pepe whenever she was pregnant or on her period: *I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING!!!*

[@wanaisya1805]

@@ItsTanuki0_Clock I can imagine Felix got accidentally struck by the thunders during Pepa's labor

[@smallsingingelephants]

You couldn't even have private thoughts. If you try to pretend you don't like someone as Pepa, you couldn't because you'd immediately have a rajncloud over your head. Your emotions are out in the open for EVERYONE to see.

[@morihound632]

What's even worse is if you consider that she might have to force herself to be happy a bunch of the time just so the weather is always sunny. We even have stuff like her calming herself using "Clear skies", meaning that she's probably been in various situations in the past where she had to calm herself.

[@NWolfsson]

I feel like, in Dolores' case, the worst tragedy is that she is *trained* by Abuela to spill the beans constantly, as soon as she gets info/is asked to. Of all the Madrigals, she is with Isabela one of the very few that passively fight against her influence (interesting enough, they're the elder of their respective siblings) and keeps things to herself (Bruno being still there and working in the shadows to keep the house afloat)

[@conejitorosada2326]

We can't say if Dolores is TRAINED by Abuela, You're stating things without actual facts or evidence to back it up. Your uncle whom is always been seen as a bad-omen, your mom telling you that he ruined her wedding, and him basically telling you how the love of your life would be betrothed to someone else? I would be pretty weary and scared of him (stated at the beginning of her part of "We don't Talk about bruno"), and it seems like he actively makes the choice of staying in the walls so it's quite easy to get stay quiet and just give him some food through the cracks or something. But when it comes to the magic dying? YEAAAHHH That's a pretty BIG secret to hold onto, as not only could it devastate you and your family as you wouldn't know what to do without it, your whole community whom has been depending on your family and the magic would be devastated too. Bruno's case is weird as we don't entirely know why people fully accepted to not talk about Bruno, as Either it's because they know Abuela still loves Bruno and would be devastated if he was ever mentioned (Not really having a good coping mechanism to deal with her own trauma of the death of her Husband), AND While we do get the whole "He predicts the future" What can we say that he can't influence it in any bit? After all, his literal sister can control the WEATHER, so it makes sense why people would just assume he would make bad things than predict it. Also, Isabella literally stated that one of the reasons why she would act perfect is for Abuela to be happy, so I don't think that's passively fighting against Abuela's influence.

[@NWolfsson]

@@conejitorosada2326 My evidence is when Abuela asked if Mariano planned to propose at the lunch scene and she *immediately* listened and confirmed, which to me reads as "anytime Abuela needs information about what happens in the village, she asks Dolores and gets it". That plus her inability to keep most of what she hears for herself, granted this last part could be more her personality.

[@ticcitoasty]

@@conejitorosada2326 1) why wouldn’t she be trained, or at least encouraged to do so? everyone else in the family is held to these high expectations, so why would dolores be any exception? her gift is perfect in getting info about others. her withholding information though might be less to do with “rebellion” and more to do with her fearing the repercussions of delivering bad news (see bruno for example). 2) the song isn’t about “bruno scary”. everyone is venting about how they felt wronged by him, and especially dolores’ part, how his gift alienated him from the rest of the family. they couldn’t understand his gift and assumed he was always delivering prophecies. 3) yes, she is always perfect. except when it comes to mirabel. she puts up no act infront of her, but it comes out as jealousy and criticism. she takes her stress out on her. either this goes unnoticed by abuela, or it’s not important to her bc it’s directed at mirabel. either way it’s a break in perfection for her.

[@quit5638]

/ encouraged

[@hollystar311]

@@conejitorosada2326 I think the biggest indicator that Dolores has been "trained" to spill the beans on everything is Mirabel's reaction to her finding out about the vision. Which I believe was something like "She's gonna tell everyone." To me that's some pretty strong evidence saying that Dolores has been habitually revealing secrets to everyone. So I don't think it's unfounded to say she has been trained by Abuela to share everything she knows.

[@pedrourbano501]

I like to think that when the miracle was reignited it was better than before, Dolores could control if she wanted super hearing or not, Pepa's power wasn't as tied to her emotions, so she would not just create a tropical storm if she saw a rat and the overall healthier environment of the family was able to make up for the rest of the shortcomings.

[@cloudiistars]

i really hope thats the case, they looked so miserable with their gifts before.

[@literalfandomtrashnoseriou1992]

Adopting this headcannon for my own mental health

[@cottoncandyswirl8289]

I like to think that too, I also believe that Pepa gained more control over her gift by not trying to suppress her emotions and having overall better mental health

[@yooneeque1]

@@cottoncandyswirl8289 Yes, and I think Isabella could express herself more freely, and Luisa was allowed to rest occasionally.

[@sarasami5208]

I think that Pepa could control the weather. At the end of the movie, we see her dancing with Felix with a cloud above her head, as it rains, even though she was happy. So maybe when the miracle came back, it allowed her to control her powers.

[@hollywoodshopaholic]

I had the exact same thoughts about Luisa throughout the movie. Even though the family saw using their gifts for the village as a duty, the way she was constantly expected to do free labor for everyone pissed me off. Just because someone's big and strong doesn't mean you can treat them like a pack mule (or climb their bodies without permission). She's even asked to move the piano during dinner like it's nothing, when she could have been tired or sore. They could have played the piano from wherever the hell it was.

[@conejitorosada2326]

You can't really just blame it on others for asking something of Luisa when Luisa herself doesn't say "No" or Deny any of these requests. It's clearly part of Luisa's personality to just help others and do what they need her to do because she knows herself that She can do it in a way that others can't. So it's just an endless pressure on Luisa, as if she doesn't say no then people think it's okay to ask more of her, but asking more of her would put more pressure but she still won't say no to them.

[@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor]

Surface pressure which is the song Luis sings is actually based on the writer's older sister. Luisa is sort of like a tribute to her and older sisters.

[@stormgate3079]

She literally carried the pack mules

[@testerwulf3357]

@@conejitorosada2326 She’s been doing things for everyone ever since she got her gift as a little girl…She had to grow up fast and likely felt too ashamed to say no as no one would let her because “she’s strong and capable, everyone needs her”. You can’t put that kind of pressure on a kid! Considering pepa is always treated as dramatic and no one takes her feelings seriously I doubt they took Luisa seriously either making her ignore her own feelings to put others first.

[@ManiaMac1613]

Luisa based so much of her personality and self-worth around her gift that she completely broke down once it started to go away. This only shows just how extraordinarily resilient Mirabel is; the strongest Madrigal couldn't handle even one day in Mirabel's shoes.

[@thegardenofeden847]

Did you see the way Luisa smiled while holding that piano. She said she felt weak that night. I’m 💯 sure she was worried she wouldn’t be able to lift it. Also why the fuck was she asked to move the dang church?

[@jellyidunno6482]

She probably asked cuz she feels she should help everyone

[@fantasmaghoulical]

she's the only one who can do it?

[@nyanfox4754]

@@fantasmaghoulical Yea but why? Like why would you WANT to move a church for?

[@writingcooper7900]

They probably wanted to build something else where the church is and thought the new location was more convenient. She was also asked to reroute the river, and she moved a bridge at the beginning. Now that I think about Luisa is probably constantly rearranging the town everytime someone’s location becomes inconvenient.

[@nyanfox4754]

@@writingcooper7900 Yeah pretty much in all here scenes she was asked to do something.

[@MathasiaJ]

In Colombia it's apparently good luck to have rain on your wedding day, which is really interesting when it's such a negative symbol for Pepa. She's so worried about having any negativity that she can't see the good things and Felix has to ground her and show her what she's not seeing. Mad props to Felix and Augustin this whole movie though, they are the healthiest part of the whole family and I adore them.

[@Furienna]

What I think is that Alma told Pepa "You have to make sure that it's a good weather on your wedding day because the whole town will be there to see you get married". So that is how she became that nervous and made everything else happen when Bruno tried to cheer her up...

[@DeathnoteBB]

I assume the animators just missed that part of the culture

[@Mask-Shop]

@@DeathnoteBB I like to think that they knew and that's Bruno's joke was about without realizing how Pepa might connotate it.

[@caidalee1994]

Rain is supposed to be good luck on your wedding day in America as well, but there’s a joke that it was made up just so the brides wouldn’t get upset lol

[@crazytrash._]

Huh, that's new. I'm Colombian and my whole life I've been told that if you get rain on your wedding day it means bad luck for the marriage

[@cindyanne11]

What I just realized about this movie (I've watched it many times now lol) is that the gifts were supposed to be things that made them happy; things they enjoyed. They were like Abuelo Pedro's last gift to his family. He didn't want them to grow to resent them. For example, I get the feeling that Isabella loved plants and nature, just like Antonio loved animals, etc. At the end, when they got their gifts back, it was different; they felt they were allowed to enjoy their gifts as they would have wanted to enjoy them.

[@ns.kha29]

The thing about Julieta is we dont get to see her struggle much but we all know shes has it the hardest. She wakes up early and cooks food for a whole village everyday. Thats why she has the most gray hair out of all the triplets. And she still manages to be a kind, encouraging mom. And we all know that she was probably like a second mom for her siblings because of her power. Poor girl. Edit: yall this was supposed to be a wholesome post about appreciating Julieta why tf are some of yall low key arguing smh

[@cyclone-studio18]

Bruno also has grey hair, but considerably less of it compared to Julietta

[@ns.kha29]

@@cyclone-studio18 true

[@imagaybanana2004]

Well Bruno also has streaks of gray in his hair. I think Pepa also has a few through her auburn hair, you can see if you look really closely. But I do agree that Julieta definitely has the most gray hair of the triplets.

[@braidij7598]

Also, the fact that they get their gifts at like 5 years old. That means that even at 5 she was probably spending all waking hours baking and healing grownups. Plus, they didnt have Luisa strength yet, so the towns people were building and moving everything themselves so probably were injured constantly. The amount of bad injuries she probably saw at so young and was expected to heal alone, instead of being a kid

[@IGon23]

I don’t think she has it the hardest, of course it’s hard but not the hardest

[@raspqui]

During the whole movie, we can see Dolores in what seems like always a horrible mood because of all the sounds shes hearing. In All Of You, WE CAN SEE HER ACTUALLY HAPPY OMG AND SHE EVEN FINALLY SPOKE WITH A LOUD TONE I MEAN SHE SHOUTED “LETS GOOOOOO!” This brings me to believe she was actually glad the miracle went out 😅

[@laurencia420blaze9]

There are videos explaining that she lied about that man wanting 5 babies to draw isabella away from him, also that she knew all along about mirabel either fixing or destroying the house which is why she brought it up at the dinner

[@Bunneh8002]

I would be happy too But now she's probably miserable again since its back

[@kidsAbellard-uk9yn]

Let's gooo.

[@Square1789]

Also, ive seen videos of Dolores suffering because of her gift since it's so loud

[@Bunneh8002]

@@Square1789 Yeah, she's basically suffering 😔

[@bonedude666]

"We don't talk about Bruno. But that doesn't mean we can't _sing_ about him."

[@Raheelkamran-c7x]

"HE DIDN'T SAY I COULDN'T SINGGG"

[@FizzyNightShade]

@@Raheelkamran-c7x I was just about to comment that. XD

[@akirawhilteshield9751]

*nothing truer has been said*

[@tylerthecreatortbh]

We domt talk, we sing

[@amandathompson6804]

THATS WHAT I HAVE BEEN SAYING

[@caelanraegn]

I was crying when Mirabel found Bruno, oh my god. Esp when she realized how alone he must have felt all those years.

[@kermitsudoku6446]

when they showed his drawn plate i freaking cried

[@marianmilla1338]

To be honest i think the gifted Madrigs are secretly jealous of Mirabel.

[@jellyidunno6482]

Yeah honestly i think that was the reason Isabella was so mean to her

[@phoren7304]

@@jellyidunno6482 yeah, she's jealous that maribel isnt being pressured to be perfect because she doesn't even have a gift.

[@briannong9363]

@@jellyidunno6482 another reason can be that Mirabel supports her marriage which she expects but doesn't want.

[@XiELEd4377]

Yeah but Mirabel is constantly left out from the family. Not being included in a family photo and no one caring, and being thought of as dead weight to the family. Alma and Isabela always wanted her to shut up, hide and do nothing related to the family because "she'll mess up things for the whole family" like they don't want her to be a part of them.

[@sOmEoNe-qh5cu]

@@phoren7304 yes but Isabella is jealous of her freedom to though •>•

[@Blu_b1t3_main]

Isabela’s behavior in 4:38 shows a lot of anxiety, guilt, sadness and fear. The brushing off her dress nervously, not meeting peoples gazes, literal hugging herself. I feel really bad for her.

[@Nameless_mixes]

I just wish that Casita could have comeback without the gifts. Also, can we appreciate that Felix willing married someone with such dangerous and unpredictable powers? And that includes meeting Pepa, dating, proposing, being engaged, staying with her to start a family and have three kids, etc. Most guys find one fault and they’re gone. Just shows how amazing of a character Felix is! ☀️

[@jaguardangerous2905]

and then you realize Felix isnt real.

[@RainbowEssence-c3w]

For real though, can you imagine what it was like when Pepa was giving birth? Weather powers + painful child labor (idk if they had painkillers or not) = not a fun time for anyone. And even her more positive emotions I imagine could be destructive, like what if she was really happy and it caused a draught or something?

[@dreya_moosik_queer5804]

@@RainbowEssence-c3w Damn bro you’re right… i imagine it doesn’t matter what she feels, she always gets her feelings invalidated because in the end, it always makes people feel unhappy with the outcome.

[@jeannebouwman1970]

Omg Pepa's labour would have been hell

[@jaguardangerous2905]

@@jeannebouwman1970 OMG YOURE RIGHT

[@iceluvndiva21]

Yeah....you summed up every reason I personally hated the grandma. Though I think many people miss something with Pepe; She's litterally forced to be happy because how her emotions affect the weather. That includes the world around her. So her mood could literally be the difference between a bountiful harvest and a drought or famine

[@lozm4835]

Avoiding a drought or Famine requires her to not be happy sometimes, though. Which means that Abuela's insistence on perfection has potentially gotten people killed.

[@Furienna]

But we can see in the "The Family Madrigal" number that Pepa is giving sunshine and then rain to a cornfield, so she would have been allowed to rain sometimes.

[@nicolas._.2294]

Nobody like tornadoes

[@kidsAbellard-uk9yn]

Pepa not pepe

[@mossasaur]

Camilo has “class clown because being funny is the only thing you’re good at” energy

[@kalielik]

bruhhh... the village only wabts to see him as other people, because "just him is not funny."

[@BabbinHousing]

thats rly sad :(

[@temin2776]

Hey, he loves it. He is actor. Why you always wanna make look someone who really happy... unhappy. He loves his gift.

[@jnd3774]

Don’t call me out

[@giordanodsouza9563]

@@temin2776 did you see the movie? Yeah the family loves their gifts but they also feel like that's all they are good for and without their gifts they're useless

[@fireemberess]

man rewatching the movie, it's clear Isabella was abuela's favorite. one, Isabella looks just like her younger self... so, with the forced engagement to Antonio, on top of the news of the children he wants... and the way abuela is so stoked and always doting on isabella... its like she's living through Isabella. like a stage mom or something. It's also almost like she wanted Isabella to be her mini me to replace her as the matriarch and have a life that mirrors her own, except without the pain of being widowed. just the extent abuela dotes on Isabella and her life. the way she takes personal offense to the engagement falling through. She can't fathom Isabella being happy about that because she doesn't care what she wants. She's projecting like Isabella is a doll.

[@stoneweddings7103]

antonio is her cousin, you must mean mariano?

[@ILikeWeasels]

'and i shall call her... mini me.'

[@twicesaurus]

Mariano lol😭

[@CharmChampion]

Pretty sure she’s the eldest grandchild, so that checks out.

[@ahstiasummers5583]

There's an online analysis of why Abuela favored Isabela kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZnRfp1jodisa8k While it's unclear if Isabela was the oldest or middle child based on some lines in "Surface Pressure", she looks like young Alma. This likely led to Abuela favoring and projecting onto her as she saw Isabela as a redo to have the happy life she was torn away from. And if Isabela is the oldest, then there's the tradition of the oldest child is trained and expected to become the next head of the family. Not to mention, Isabela was old enough to remember her uncle Bruno and how he was shunned. So that likely instilled a fear that if she didn't do everything to please Abuela, Bruno's fate could very well be her fate. That fear was likely mutual in the entire family.

[@samanthac.349]

I love that this movie is about a dysfunctional family that actually loves each other very much. They just needed some therapy and better communication skills.

[@anglepsycho]

And Abuela to get corrected for child abuse by generations but she's a woman so she's allowed to torture and berate everyone.

[@loltadynicneni913]

@@anglepsycho She didn't do it on purpose...

[@avourrito1819]

@@anglepsycho You're too young to process trauma and what it did to people to act unintentionally toxic without knowing what they're doing.

[@pascuala.]

You just described my family tf

[@prod.bygalaxy]

even without her gift luisa is still stronger than the average person

[@Furienna]

She would be because she exercised a lot.

[@EiriYukisLover]

I feel bad for Dolores. She actually covers her ears duirng Antonio's gift receiving because it's so loud. It must be painful. My husband wondered if her magic room was soundproof so she could sleep. But from things she said in the movie I don't think so. Her and her mom got the worst gifts.

[@burmessafox3939]

Apparently the creator confirmed her room is sound proof. Also when she says she heard Luisa's eye twitching all night, she meant during the party.

[@Frog-yd9lw]

Poor Dolores

[@pathetic2399]

Her moms gift can be cool and useful if she learned how to properly control it, like she did at the end of the movie. Dolores is just fucked though. There are few benefits to being able to hear everything.

[@tabithahiggins5075]

I used to think it'd be a cool "superpower" to have, then a friend told me about a time he and his dad had a quiet conversation in their kitchen, and his mom heard everything even though she was at the other end of the house -- because she was lying in her darkened bedroom suffering from a migraine. If that's the trade-off, there's no way in hell I'd want that power.

[@ariisvision]

@@burmessafox3939 hi did she hear mariano every night

[@hanbinwifey1723]

I cried so hard at bruno’s scene. He hid behind the family dinner room, drawing his own plate with his name written on it probably just so he can feel included whenever he watched them eating together through the small gap on the wall.... my man deserve all the loves

[@anglepsycho]

Honestly, when he was showing why he was genuinely hated by seemingly everyone and then was SCARED AND CONFUSED WHEN THE ABUSER HELD HIM was shatttering since I've been trapped in that style of family and already have a sensical gift (being autistic) so I've been abused for being myself to this day by people I was supposed to trust before losing half my family to abandonment for speaking up. So the personal relation stung so badly I had to hide my crying but my sister laughed about it and I laughed with her-

[@mint-pigeon77]

@@anglepsycho Oof. I honestly kinda relate too..

[@Birbbb]

yeah they literally kick out a family member because of that stupid gift probably they didn't even listen him and also bruno is just seeing vision he is not who wanted to happen them like that woman who said " he told me my wish would die and next day dead" she said like he wanted to fish die he just saw and that fish lady could've take some precautions and fish would be alive mirabel is exactly said what ı said they saw the worst

[@j0kerclash289]

The "Imperfect" flower was actually the only white flower, and white represents purity. This makes it worse because she was basically symbolically pressuring her into losing her virginity to a person she doesn't particularly love solely for the family's reputation.

[@danielcooper3332]

It was also a Daisy which are considered weeds in some places so it has the second symbolic meaning of Abuela literally weeding the thoughts/personality traits she doesn't like out of Isabela's head like a gardener.

[@guinealover6674]

To be fair, it seems Abuela didn't know that Isa wasn't in love with him. In her mind, she was just excited for them to start a new generation of family and missed the warning signs that Isa felt pressured into the relationship. Just like she missed the signs that everyone else was suffering because of her inability to look beyond their gifts.

[@Furienna]

@@mkat8505 Really though, I can see how losing your virginity to somebody you don't love just to please somebody else can be traumatizing. And a bad wedding night will hardly lead to a good marriage...

[@Cloudipy]

This sounds like one of these moment where interpretation seem too exaggerated

[@meme-ih1wb]

​@@mkat8505 well certain things are more traumatic to others, it just depends on the person

[@ashleydean8895]

Theres a lyric in "What Else Can I Do" that I feel gets over looked a bunch. Isa sings "It just needed to be. And they'd let me be." I think that line really encompasses that she doesn't want to be the golden child. It's suffocating, and she just wants to be left ALONE.

[@TheMimiSard]

When it comes to Pepa, "We don't talk about Bruno" and how quick she was to hug him, I think a big part of why she doesn't want to talk about him is because his absence hurts. He's not just her brother, he's her triplet, and I can't help think both she and Julieta felt something was terribly missing without him for that 10 years. So as soon as she saw him there, Pepa rushed to hug him, with Julieta right behind, because that painful empty spot that was their triplet bond was finally fixed.

[@mercy5004]

I mean honestly after watching the movie several times over I came to the realization that really no one in the family ever hated Bruno. In fact he was never "exiled" which is something a lot of people misconstrue. He only left because he didn't want mirabel to be treated badly because of the vision he was asked to have of her. No one asked him, or forced him to leave, he *chose* to leave to avoid unnecessary conflict....and I think the scene where he is calling his gift unhelpful is literally just how he has learned to cope with his self-imposed isolation. He has to continue to justify his absence as "its better if I'm gone" otherwise his sacrifice was in vain. Kind of like how people will say they're horrible people and no one should interact with them as an excuse for why they push away their friends and family, that the people they care about would be "better" without them. I believe that "We don't talk about Bruno" is likewise the family's way of coping with the fact that they feel abandoned by a family member they thought they could trust. They don't know *why* he left, only that he did, so in their hurt they're finding reasons to dislike him after the fact. I think the only exceptions to this really is Camillo, Dolores, and Isabella, who were too young to really make an opinion on his leaving, (and I believe Camillo, being his mother's emotional support son, picked up on her feelings towards the situation and thus imagines him as a villain) and thus are more honest. Mirabel was too young to really remember him. I mean in the end, Abuela and family were *worried* about mirabel and scared about what her not having a gift could mean, so they asked Bruno to look into it. Then Bruno just....dipped. No note, no reason why, nothing. He told *no one*. Imagine if, for instance, you were scared for the safety of your child and the person you asked for help just f*cked off the face of the world, blocked you on social media and never gave you a reason why? Would your first instinct be "oh hey he probably had a good reason?" Or would it be more "He must of not cared about me, my child, or the rest of us, because why would he leave us when we needed him?" However, of course, they always did love him. They were just hurt, feeling like he abandoned them. I think that's also why Abuela rushes him when she sees him because she *never* hated her own son (as much as she may have disliked some of his visions), she just, again, felt hurt because SHE was the one to ask him to have the vision about Mirabel (The last vision he had, and the one he never showed anyone before disappearing into the walls). Pepa and Julieta I believe are the same way (though they didn't know Abuela asked him to have a vision about Mirabel). Sorry for the long comment lol, but this is a really lovely complex side to the relationship and the song that I believe gets so overlooked because people simplify "this person good, that person bad" too much for this film lol.

[@amaikurose4830]

@@mercy5004 EXACTLY

[@Sinklair8]

@@mercy5004 Yes !! 🙌 this is something people don’t seem to understand even though Bruno leaving of his own accord was stated pretty clearly.

[@mackencheez6552]

One of the things I really loved about this film was that there was no one clear cut ‘villain’. The conflict comes from the relationship between the family members and their place in the community. Definitely one of the best films Disney has made imo.

[@Roseasuko]

Actually I think Camilo might be the only one other than Mirabel who doesn't actually remember him because Isa and dolores would be about 11 when Bruno left while Luisa was 9. So they probably remembered him especially since they don't meet a bunch of new people in the encanto.

[@transbender5906]

the miserables: abuela: has to go through generational trauma and her self worth is dependent on how other people view her family Julieta: has to heal everyone without a break to heal herself Pepa: is never asked “are you okay?” and instead “there’s a cloud” Bruno: literally shunned because of his power and hated by everyone and he believes he is a bad omen so he tries to leave only to see Mirabel go through the same shit he did and living in the walls with his rats and eating dinner isolated from his family was for nothing Isabel: stuck being perfect and can’t show a fraction of imperfection Louisa: just listen to surface pressure I- 🥲 Mirabel: y’all know Dolores: constant earrape Camilo: can’t be himself and probably doesn’t even know who he is Antonio: the curse was broken for him with Mirabel Edit: fr this is the most amount of likes I’ve ever gotten in my life

[@dumbbih4241]

YES, but then again antonio also is fucken traumatized at 5 cause abuela 100% buried him in the pressure of having a good gift ceremony because mirabel's failed, imagine going through that since you were born and could understand what people said to you, im surprised he isnt a complete brat

[@katiaboardman6794]

Antonio can talk to animals, that's his gift

[@joxheunfff100]

@@katiaboardman6794 I think they mean that Antonios gift doesn't seem to have a negative side :)

[@Nobody-zl3kk]

Antonio's gift would've eventually backfired, like a veterinarian wanting to help animals but realizing that being a veterinarian has more to do with tending to grievous injuries/illnesses or putting animals to sleep and not just being able to deal with them in a very... hhhhmmmm friendly manner? idk, you get where i'm going, to be a doctor, expect to see people suffering, that's the whole job, and sometimes you wont succeed. Just think about it, are people going to stop eating animals in town because a kid can suddenly talk to them and hear the screams when they have to be butchered? also, think about this, this is a pre-industrial society, the best way to put down an animal is with a knife to the neck or head, just imagine the trauma of being able to understand animals and literaly see them more humanely than everyone else around you. Tl;dr: He can help animals, but that tiger is gona eat something at some point.

[@transbender5906]

@@Nobody-zl3kk that’s a great point.

[@NorthernShinigami]

Bruno living in the WALLS all this time just watching his family from afar but so close makes me cry. You can SEE he cried himself to sleep half the time.

[@Furienna]

My baby... 😢

[@NeyamRye]

Fax

[@Bunneh8002]

I wish I could hug him 😭

[@lolitheblobfish2854]

Everyone talks about Bruno's gift pushing people away and getting him exiled but imagine he sees a future so dark like a family member dying and he just has to live with that knowing he's helpless in preventing it

[@Furienna]

Poor baby... 😢

[@zachanier]

Dolores makes me so sad, because in a lot of scenes we can see her covering her ears because its too loud, like in the fireworks, it just seems so painful i feel so bad for her. :(

[@shadow_shine3578]

Yeah as someone with auditory sensory issues it can be hell. I really relate to Dolores I often have to wear noise canceling headphones in school just to keep calm. I can hear through them just fine, but I need the muffle or I usually end up really on edge and annoyed by everything.

[@cantbeliveihavetomakethiss94]

@@sevengrapes-gi1io ight this broke me. She hears every tragedy in the village it must be so awful

[@tired247]

@@sevengrapes-gi1io that would break me not even gonna lie

[@sapphia4612]

I think as Luisa can lessen and increase her strength, like the hugging of her sisters and carrying the donkeys require different levels of strength, so can Dolores. She can lessen her hearing or increase it, like for example when she wants to hear from a mile away she pulls out her ear and puts a hand on it and when abuela is giving orders she just pulls out her ear. Obviously they have inhuman hearing and strength but they can always increase and decrease it.

[@An-kw3ec]

Some people are hypersensitive in real life because they have a overdeveloped nervous system. Introverts a more prone to be like that.

[@MoonlitBookworm73]

Pepa - Always soaking wet, told to always be happy Dolores - Heard all children besides Isa & Luisa "being created" Julietta - Honestly, she is probably so tired from always cooking Isabella - Definitely stress cries often about being perfect Luisa - Always hides emotions and also stress cries Mirabel - Kinda obvious Camilo - Painful and frequent malfunctions, probs also has an identity crisis every day

[@relaxandfocus5563]

WHAT ABOUT BRUNO!?

[@DuskPShermanWallaby123]

@@relaxandfocus5563 we don't talk about bruno

[@hakurere3337]

And i heard.. the name we do, *not* speak. 😨

[@rachelthornton4442]

Dolores: *(hears her mother and father’s bed rocking from halfway across town)*

[@AnEffingPinkCatThatBreathes]

Omg poor Dolores

[@FatCurlyCat]

Luisa’s face when Mirabel helped her broke my heart. Nobody ever asked her how she was doing, or if she needed any help throughout the movie. At the end of Surface Pressure, when Mirabel showed even the slightest bit of concern and care towards Luisa, she broke down into tears

[@ピンクが大好き]

I find it so crazy how Dolores could keep the biggest secret which is BRUNO WAS IN THE HOUSE THE ENTIRE TIME, at the end she goes “ i knew he didn’t leave, I heard him everyday!” But she couldn’t keep Mirabel knowing abt Bruno’s vision………. Kinda suspicious if you ask me.👀

[@Rayan_-sk1zv]

We don't talk about Bruno, if you saw Pepa's reaction, Felix's reaction and like everyone in the town. They don't talk about Bruno so she never could say that

[@ピンクが大好き]

@@Rayan_-sk1zv right right, I was more saying it cause when she was at dinner she was having an extremely hard time keeping it in that mirabel knew the vision, so I was saying I thought it was funny how she didn’t do that with Bruno, but I understand why now, cause she didn’t want to hurt her family by telling them he was there lol.

[@kiryn5977]

@@ピンクが大好き I mean.....the big thing here about keeping the secret during the dinner is that we're talking about everyone being in literal danger. How stressed out would you be if you knew that the house could literally collapse onto you and your family at any moment, and yet you're being asked to keep the danger a secret bc it makes your cousin look bad? I wouldn't be able to hold it together any better, tbh.

[@ピンクが大好き]

@@kiryn5977 I mean yeah I’d be stressed to, but I more mean like she couldn’t keep a secret no matter what the secret was abt it seemed like she couldn’t keep anything in, so I’m saying why could she keep Bruno’s secret in but not the vision part, and I get different circumstances so yeah she was scared and she wanted to get it off her chest but it seems weird she couldn’t keep everything else in

[@cloudyelizabeth2097]

there is a theory that Dolores tried to end the magic so she and her mother could be in peace

[@TechBearSeattle]

"They lost their miracle 2 seconds ago and they're already happier" -- Abuela put all that pressure on the family out of the belief that using the miracle to serve the village was the most important thing ever. They had to lose the miracle before she could realize how incredibly toxic and traumatic her attitude had been.

[@kathygeohana]

THIS ! I REALLY FEEL LIKE THIS WAS WHAT BRUNO’S VISION WAS TRYING TO SHOW AND WHY MIRABEL WAS IN IT.

[@mugiwaerouma]

Exactly! I was irritated because Abuela was being way too fucking demanding of the family

[@stoneforest2639]

I feel like pepa deserves a scene of dancing in the rain. Gross uncomfortable sobbing but also laughter. The rain must come to water the plants still! Feeling like shit is important too

[@Laeiryn]

One of the few takeovers of Westernized culture - rain would be a good, normal, necessary part of life & culture to an indigenous, rainforest-zone group. Only because of leaking , pervasive ideas about rain being "bad" and unwelcome (which come from northern European culture) does her upsettiness result in "bad" weather. Rain should be revered and looked forward to. Her bad moods should bring droughts instead. Was that intentional on the part of the writers? Probably not; they probably just went with what they assumed was default, universal symbolism. (But they got things like Isa growing native plants when she stops trying to be "perfect" - which is a subtle but amazing thing, imo) But transplant Pepa to many, many other places around the world and being able to make it rain would make her a GODDESS.

[@nevaidos]

I believe she can be seen dancing in the rain in one of the final scenes of the movie

[@lunaris5054]

@@Laeiryn What how is it western not to like being wet?

[@sockshandle]

@@Laeiryn first I think it’s the worry of too much rain causing flooding second even outside of the west people didn’t like to be out in the rain (especially if it is a heavy rain and before the weather radar given that a simple rain back then could have been a tornado that destroys the village or a hurricane that floods the village and takes everything out to sea not saying rain is bad but anything good if there’s too much of it can be bad

[@Setsunako6587]

Pepa's spin-off show, where she learns to embrace and integrate her emotions in a healthy way could SAVE. LIVES 🙌🏾!!

[@JazzyB9481]

Pepa got that "conceal, don't feel" type of parenting but at least her parent didn't lock her in a room for 20 years I guess 💀 I used to hate her character for leading the "We Don't Talk About Bruno" hate song (that I love), but I realized that she literally CAN'T talk about him because it is too upsetting and she was never allowed to process any negative emotions, so she is emotionally stunted. She couldn't figure out that the emotion she was feeling was "I miss my brother, maybe we should have treated him better" because she literally can't think about anything negative without hearing Abuela's bullshit about her clouds. An emotional prison! Omg now I am connecting her to Elsa again and that's why Bruno literally told her to LET IT GO 🥰😄 Edit: 5:25 I just noticed that Pepa hugged him first and her hug was so strong that it lifted him up 🥺🥺🥺🥺

[@Stephanie-pe3zk]

This is a really good take on Pepa's character! She's honestly become one of my favourite characters because I too have an issue with suppressing my emotions

[@conejitorosada2326]

You DO have to remember that if you don't control Pepa's powers, you could literally kill someone, or devastate your entire community. Also, Pepa's only problem is that she's too emotional, and "in the present", We don't really see her struggle with her powers as much as it just shows what she's CURRENTLY feeling.

[@JazzyB9481]

@@Stephanie-pe3zk thanks! She still isn't my favorite character but I like her more than I did before, and at least I understand her now

[@Anonymouse428]

Wow, I really appreciate this analysis. I really relate to the Pepa character, as someone with really huge emotions. When I was a teenager and dealing with the unacknowledged constant abuse from my older brother, my mom literally asked me to “just pretend” to be happy, in order to make things nicer for everyone else in the family. I no longer have any relationship with anyone in my family of origin, and I’m much more naturally calm. I definitely relate to everything you said about not being allowed to process negative emotions leaving a person emotionally stunted.

[@unHolyEvelyn]

In a similar vein, Isabela being mean to Mirabel was (while this isn't an excuse) her only outlet to not be "perfect" in Abuela Alma's eyes. She was jealous that Mirabel had no expectations on her shoulders, while she herself had to be perfect her whole life, from her first memory. Since nobody is allowed to lash out at Alma, she unfairly redirects it to the only other misfit, her sister. After realizing that I liked her a LOT more than I did starting out.

[@xilofone8166]

literally have a same uncle as felix and a same aunt as pepa she is capable of breaking the sound barrier and glass with screams by getting stressed over the smallest misunderstandings of the family but the uncle always deals with it somehow and loves her despite living with it everyday, a literal saint, one of my idols of a man

[@mldag1678]

I saw a post on tumblr that talked about the books and the extra material we get from them And some of the points that stood out was that in the books there's extra dialouge where dolores says something along the lines of "Sometimes instead of just listening, I'd like to speak too" and I just- the pain And Camilo says something like "I'm good at changing and I want to change in other ways... maybe I can finally be myself" (ALSO I saw in another post, it was a screenshot of a twitter thread and yes this might be confusing lol, the creators apparently had an idea that when they all lost their gifts camilo would turn into someone no one recognises bc he's been shapeshifting ever since he got his gift and that just hits different-) Edit: I FOUND THE POST It's by "hyrques" and the books are "A tale of Three sisters" by Anika Fajardo and "Deluxe junior novelization" by Angela Cervantes. The latter one is like a retelling of the movie with scenes/dialouges that didn't make it into the final cut which I assume the thing about camilo and dolores is from.

[@Shermansart]

That part about Camilo sounds like some borderline body horror

[@irediche]

OMG I have headcanon about Camillo looking different after loosing gift I didn't know that creators actually had that idea

[@cookiesandcreme618]

Wait wait wait wait...there's books about this movie???

[@thebrbiedreamhouse]

AFSJDGSKJSKS THE DOLORES QUOTE 😭😭😭 NOO

[@aliendxde]

@@cookiesandcreme618 i think they mean the art/concept book

[@firewolf4824]

Their powers didn't make them miserable, people taking advantage of them did.

[@bonitagirl6843]

True..

[@fabianshedenhelm2986]

Except for probably Dolores.

[@aircoolguy5218]

@@fabianshedenhelm2986 yeah being able to hear everything would be horrible…

[@CompleteIndie]

While this is mostly true, Dolores and Pepa likely had hell on Earth.

[@KeitieKalopsia]

This, with the exception of maybe Pepa and Dolores. I wouldn’t want to get drenched and make my already bad mood worse, and at some point Dolores is just gonna want earmuffs.

[@FOR3STHILLS]

"My gift wasn't helping the family, but I love my family" always makes me about to cry

[@anglepsycho]

Theory time (I watched the movie today and am dismissing the candle thing because there isn't any waxy oil stains like you would have with wax) So, let's talk about strength. Mirabel isn't strong physically nor telepathically, but she is in other ways. For example, the stubborn will to move past being berated, shunned, and flat-out abused by her own grandmother and family. She literally hugged the very woman who tortured her every single time gifts were mentioned, and it spread to the town, like it always does. Thing is, Mirabel is curious and stubborn and always searches for conclusions, aka why she made Bruno not only do another vision but find the clue needed to start piecing things together. La Casita probably did give her a gift, but not one in a normal sense like doors. Instead, through sheer will and survivor instincts. Why else would Casita ONLY SHOW Mirabel the damage over time to lead to the candle or saving the miracle. She was fighting for basically her grandfather because I have a strong felling his soul went to the candle to protect and give life to his family after he was chop shopped by machetes. He probably gifted Mirabel strength so that one day the decision on what happens to the house will be made by someone who is far more mentally strong than a widowed grandmother who takes out her traumas by generations and abandoned one of her children to the point where he left in order to protect Mirabel fearing the worst for her since everyone assumes he is awful with no wild card/chance of good or bad. The truth. TL/DR: Mirabel did get the gift, and her instinct to wipe the wax off was honestly probably a sensory thing since nobody told her not to do that and her gift is mental strength.

[@Error_Detected404]

3:43 so for those who don't know, this is a saying that some families say to their kids when they get hurt (it's what my mom would say to me when I was little) so Bruno is basically saying it to the house since it's covered in cracks as if it got hurt.

[@cloudiistars]

wait- whats the translation?

[@tord1218]

@@cloudiistars sana sana colita de rana: heal heal frog tail

[@TheChristianCountess2721]

Awww, that’s so cute!

[@SizzlingSocks]

omg my parents always say that ❤

[@TheRedGhost_]

​@@tord1218 I always thought it was "culito de rana" so frog butt... This makes more sense

[@SpagettiSpeltWrong]

The phrase Bruno says when he's jumping over the cracks is actually a phrase people say when others are hurt. HE'S COMFORTING THE HOUSEEEE

[@claudiag.9307]

My mom says this phrase a lot, I didn't catch it in the movie when I first watched it but hearing it now is kind of blowing me away

[@kanorune]

@Insomnia_Gaming yeah I can confirm

[@javipedrero5390]

"Sana, sana, colita de rana. Si no sama hoy, sanará mañana" translates to "heal, heal, frog butt. If it doesn't heal today, it'll heal tomorrow" bruno is so sweet i'm gonna cry :c

[@amytheprettyweirdfangirl3786]

@@javipedrero5390 MY MOM USED TO SAY THIS PHRASE TO ME ALL THE TIME WHEN I WAS LITTLE OH MY GOSH, PEOPLE ACTUALLY KNOW THIS PHRASE?? AND I HAD NO IDEA BRUNO SAID IN THE MOVIE I'M GONNA CRY AAAA- Freak out over my childhood aside, *THAT'S* what it translates to?! I literally had NO idea... I knew that "si no te sana hoy, sana mañana" part means "if it doesn't heal today, it'll heal tomorrow", but I had no idea the first part said that! Heck, I didn't even know how it was pronounced or spelled 😭 That is amazing, my childhood is enhanced. I'm asking my mom about this lol- Also, YES Bruno is like the sweetest ever!! I think we can all agree :')

[@S41RO]

It's actually more about the tail on tadpoles. Since they lose it when they become frogs

[@pixie362]

I don't know if this is just something I noticed but I'm thinking about the symbolism in the two family photos taken throughout the movie. The first one taken the night of Antonio's gift ceremony, they excluded Mirabel, everyone looks happy and perfect, and even openly display their gift in the picture, and I think this is because this is what Abuela wants the family to be. However, at the end of the movie, not only is Mirabel in the picture, but the picture results in absolute chaos. That doesn't mean Mirabel is responsible for the chaos in the family, it just means that in reality the family is much more messy, and Abuela is growing to understand that her family isn't perfect and she can't make it to be, but most importantly, Mirabel IS still apart of the family Madrigal, gift or "no gift".

[@Enchanted_Heart521]

Mirabel’s gift is the house rebuilt at the end.

[@stickyguyd]

the family also looks happier. the first picture had fake smiles all around, a performance. but the last one is exactly what youd expect from a happy family that has good times

[@pixie362]

@@Enchanted_Heart521 hence the quotes around 'no gift' bc she does have one

[@pixie362]

@@stickyguyd ^^^

[@tasneemk01]

I was so hurt for her that her parents were even in the picture. Like I’d be damned if MY child gets excluded just because she doesn’t have a gift. Either she’s in the picture or I’m not going to be in it

[@redhood982]

Julieta probably has the best gift out of everyone. Imagine just making food that instantly heals you, it’s like an instant win!!

[@Nolroa]

In a small town where there seems to be no medical services it would be a curse. She would be literally doomed to live in the kitchen.

[@mochie.x]

But then she has to see the wounds, blood, broken limbs, etc... 24/7

[@Nolroa]

@@mochie.x It seems that Julieta already does that with Agustín, her husband. In the song La Familia Madrigal, Mirabel says that her father is accident prone and it is likely that she did not have to treat only his allergic reaction to bee stings.

[@avourrito1819]

Being the only Healer in a team or community is hell because everyone will abuse your power and drain your energy without empathy. There's always something you trade to become and Healer and its always your health

[@aivanandrewsaga5661]

This just makes me wonder what happens if Julieta dies. Everyone in the town probs has no experience with healing and they had relied on Julieta for so long and once she passes on they are doomed

[@heiwaii847]

When I tell you I cried watching this movie, I CRIED. It came out around the time I'd just lost my job and before I got my new one and I'd been having problems with my own family. Heck, that night I'd had a big fight with my mother who thought I wasn't trying hard enough. I decided to watch this movie at like 3 am early in January just to take my mind off the stress and I identified so hard with Mirabel that I cried at three points- first when Mirabel sang "Waiting On A Miracle", once when Mirabel and Abuela fought after Isabella's song, and once when Mirabel and Abuela had their conversation at the end of the movie. I was such a mess by the end of it I had to get my older sister on the phone and just talk to calm myself down and absolutely gush over the movie. I absolutely adore this movie, I will never not love it.

[@dagger3570]

I imagine that the reason why Camilo eats so much is because it burns calories to shapeshift and he gets more hungry as a result

[@kerokrystal]

i’m sure that’s just a teenage boy thing. they’re just always hungry 😭

[@karlwithac95]

@@kerokrystal can confirm

[@johnnyschittaphrrr2813]

@@kerokrystal can also confirm. My brother eats every 2 hours and I just watch him with ????? expressions on my face lol

[@addie6325]

@@kerokrystal can confirm but I'm a girl-

[@addie6325]

@@johnnyschittaphrrr2813 (describing my soulmate rn) (or would that be a spirit animal???)

[@titangirl161]

I think the flower thing- where the flowers always punched him- was intentional. It was Isabella's true feelings. It's her way of saying "I may be agreeing to marry you, but I don't like you" without saying a word

[@DeathnoteBB]

I think it wasn’t intentional, but like subconscious.

[@Nolroa]

I'd say it's intentional. In the song “What else can I do” Isabela hits Mariano again with a vine sprouting from the ground and this time he is too far from Casita to say it was accidental.

[@DeathnoteBB]

@@Nolroa “Too far away to be accidental”? What? How is that less accidental? For one she wasn’t even looking, and if she was it was so far away I doubt she could have done it on purpose

[@alyssapinon9670]

Which is pretty funny to think about but also kind of sad since we find out that Mariano is a decent dude who didn’t deserve to get caught up in Abuela’s mess

[@espressocookie8965]

"You can still marry that hunk" "I NEVER WANTED TO MARRY THAT HUNK, I WAS DOING IT *FOR THE FAMILY*"

[@BlueSodaPop_]

*"You're lucky it's not a HURRICANE"* gets me every time, poor Pepa can't catch a break

[@miriamlmao7037]

i think for julietta its that elder sister syndrome. helping everyone but no one rly helped her. pepa clearly has lots of anxiety and is supposed to never express any negative emotion unless she wants to burden everyone else. she has to be constantly happy to a toxic point.

[@DeuzFazbear]

And Bruno as the youngest and the only male member of the family for how many years, had to deal with all the sh1t people talk about him, and I bet Abuela Alma probably told him to "get over it and man up"

[@Furienna]

​@@DeuzFazbearWhat I think is that she wasn’t THAT cruel, but she would have said things like "Why can't you see good things in people's future?".

[@simseatingpizza]

I feel like Camilo is the entertainer & funny kid who tries to keep everything light and happy cause he wants to keep the emotional outbursts of his mom to a minimum so he constantly feels responsible for her negative emotions if he can‘t distract her or make her happy..

[@shadow_shine3578]

...ok I feel slightly called because that's my thought process around my friends. Like my family I'm just normal and then i hang out with friends and boom I'm the odd one making them laugh.

[@liddonburns8195]

Yeah, I feel like he's put under a lot of pressure to make everyone happy all the time. Always performing, trying his best to help people with his power (shapeshifting babysitting, 'josé!', shifting into felix to comfort antonio). its like the only time he can help people is when hes not himself :"

[@kimuires]

“My primo Camilo won't stop until he makes you smile today”

[@ancientamberkazoo1201]

Man I relate to this so much Even if it ain't my fault I still feel so horrible about my family being in any bad mood. So I try to take the responsibility myself so no one else would have to deal with it

[@selenarodriguez6972]

how much Camilo relates to me and I'm always the class clown but have a breakdown when I go home. I love making my friends laugh and being silly, pulling pranks, making up jokes but I do have some emotional problems like not knowing who I wanna be or who I am because I'm still stuck in this cage of looking for answers about myself.

[@ihadathoughtonce1016]

Now I get why people think they shouldn't have gotten their gifts back at the end.

[@nothinghere6678]

As much as I'd like to agree, that's like saying Mirabel's only respected now because everyone else is no longer "special". The fact that they got their gifts back but now treat Mirabel better provides actual closure as to how they've truly learned to accept Mirabel despite her being "giftless".

[@roxy6835]

Don’t forget “Give it to your sister and never wonder If the same pressure would've pulled you under” 😭

[@Bloodjen]

NO ONE TALKS ABOUT THIS LINE ANd it's like, the absolute most heartbreaking one cause even in her exposition about how much she's struggling she's still trying to stop Mirabel from worrying

[@loveyloveyloveydovey]

1:36 I DIDNT EVEN REALIZE SHE WAS PICKING OUT THE FLOWER THAT DIDNT FIT THE REST OF THEM, THATS SO CREATIVE AND SHOWS THEIR ATTENTION TO DETAIL BUT ALSO SO SAD

[@nothingtoseehere265]

SOMEBODY is giving Bruno food, knowing that he is in there. It could just be for the rats, but I have a theory that either Delores or Mirabel's mom is putting the food where Bruno used to sit.

[@deffdefying4803]

Either: 1. The rats are bringing him the food 2. He sneaks into the kitchen and steals some leftovers

[@ImaNerdANDaGeek]

Let's see, he left when Mirabel was 5, so Delores would have been 11. I think that would be old enough for her to take initiative.

[@meriotheart]

I think that in the final song Mirabel's dad mentioned trips only at night, so maybe he went and got it himself, not sure how no one noticed the missing food tho, maybe they thought someone else ate it

[@chocomelo454]

I think people believe Dolores would leave him a plate when everyone is gone because he had the window that let's him enter the dining room. She also knocks on the wall when they're setting the table in "We don't talk about Bruno" to let him know dinner is ready and to get some later or that she'll be giving him his plate soon. There's also that Mirabel's mom may have given him food or cooked him an extra plate since she probably cooks every meal. Or he got his own, but Dolores said she knew he was in there so my guess is Dolores gave him his food.

[@Vincinate]

@mushroom Juliette was surprised to see him so it's not her

[@exudeku]

Lmao to be fair, Felix is that non-related Uncle that is everyone's best friend

[@wynssi]

"nooo the curse is back" 💀 man i really wished that casita didnt give back their gifts at the end 😭 they look way happier being giftless

[@vixxcelacea2778]

I get the feeling casita doesn't choose this. I think she's just the caretaker and someone to be there to make sure the home is always protected. She doesn't have control over the magic rooms at all, as stated in the movie, so I very much doubt she has any influence on the entire process.

[@kiarona.]

When they all went back in though, their gifts seemed to be making them happier - I saw an excerpt of the script that said under Mirabel's Miracle, their powers weren't quite so set in stone and they were all able to appreciate them and have more time to relax. Like Pepa was laughing under a snow cloud, and she didn't care any more that it *was* a cloud, Isabela was able to use her powers to express herself the way she wanted, Luisa was deposited in a hammock (by the donkeys) and given a cocktail. The only person I really feel sorry for is Dolores - she's still going to be hearing everything 😕 At least she has Mariano now

[@CrystaliumJMC]

I think with them having a break from having those gifts and the assumed expectations that came with them, to refocus themselves on their internal issues rather than just covering them up to appear flawless like before, they came back together genuinely as a stronger and happier family.

[@Video_Radio]

At the end of the movie, if you look really closely, the doors were glowing, they didn't have the family member's picture on them, just glowing

[@strawberriesandcream2484]

why did that remind me of grumpy from once upon a time "THE CURSE, ITS HERE!!!"

[@kingjb554]

I feel like they can all be a little happier after this, even with the gifts. Except Dolores, idk how that poor girl hasn't jumped off the roof yet...