idk if anyone has already pointed this out, but the visualization of the pressure that luisa was experiencing is so powerful to me.
like here, seeing luisa struggling to hold up the boulders on her shoulder to prevent her and mirabel from being crushed. seeing her struggle like this, especially after having seen what she’s capable of with literally picking up a church and kicking a house to set it straight, it’s like you can feel the weight yourself. and as soon as she’s able to get a hold and lift them up, she’s crushed by the weight of casita landing on her, it being too much for her to hold. it’s showing that, no matter how much she’s already dealing and struggling with, her family and their expectations just dump so much more on top of her. but a second later
we see her lifting up casita. and not just lifting, but tossing her up and proceeding to balance and roll her around with her feet. this isn’t just showing us her physical strength but her emotional strength as well. and it’s also giving us a visual representation of the pressure she feels to hold the house up, “handle every family burden”, and not let her family down, despite how much she’s struggling to do so. she’s supposed to be the strong one of the family who can hold and handle anything and everything. and on top of that,
she has the pressure and expectations of the entire encanto as well. she feels the pressure of their entire town on her shoulders, including the friggin sun. and obviously this is what the whole song is about, but damn. these scenes literally made me feels stressed and anxious. seeing luisa’s feelings visualized the way they are just makes it hit to much harder. it’s the details people, the details 😭
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