Hehehe time to over analyze the fuck out of this ten second clip!
OK LETS GO!
SO! Firstly. I’m gonna start out this this image of the creators tweet
He said Pepa was the ‘Middle child’ more emotional because JULIETA was the ADULT!
Now, it may just be theory. And it might be literal canon, but its heavily implied Julieta never got much criticism from Alma like Pepa did. Sure. That meant she had a lot of pressure. To ironically, be the ‘Perfect golden child’ (gosh and the fact Isabella was her child ok I’m getting off tract shshsbdh). But typically since her gift was easy, and not problematic. She was probably closer to Abuela. And got less scolding.
Which of course, as the middle child who was ridiculed and forced to repress her emotions, it would make her ‘More emotional’
NOW! Let’s analyze these frames!
their both a little shocked Alma is apologizing. Though Pepa is visibly more surprised, while Julieta looks more concerned. Maybe cause Pepa never got an apology growing up. Or never saw her do it. Except when…
‘miss eldest golden child Julieta’ got one. you see cause now she looks resolute. She looks downtrodden and sad. While Julieta looks the same. Cause Alma has always been closer to Julieta. And Pepa probably assumes that if anything, this apology is just for her Sister. (but of course she walks forward too cause like. Jsdjjd for music purposes. And also hope. She probably is hoping it’s for her for once. plain old hoping.) which is easily backed up by…
THIS PHOTO!
they Both approach her. Yet it’s JULIETA Alma first goes to. She takes JULIETAS hands. She doesn’t take Pepas hands. LOOK AT HER HANDS. she’s holding them nervousky. Clenched together. Tucked to her chest. She looks so anxious ans sad. Watching Julieta get the love.
Now Julieta is at ease. She understands her mom is fine. And she’s getting a love filled apology. She’s ok. PEPA ON THE OTHER HAND LOOKS DESTROYED. she’s literally watching them two. Wondering if she’ll be noticed. If she’ll get an apology. If she’ll just be ignored yet again. If she’s even deserving of such high honored only given to the eldest golden child.
THEN RELIEF! Alma has reached out. For once. And it is a shock. Theirs a second she doesn’t move. But then she instinctively leans into the comforting touch of her mother that she was so deprived of. Closing her eyes to relish it. She is final getting the love and appreciation she deserves. (And yes Julieta is happy for her sister. She knows she’s been deprived of what should be rightfully hers)
Confirmation! She makes eye contact with her mom. she smiles. It is real. She can’t believe it but is so happy and relieved! Pepa madrigal is being LOVED!
gosh. This took so much out of me. Thanks for sitting through my passionate and maybe A little obsessive rant. what can I say. I love Pepa Madrigal! 😌
please reblog the hell out of this it took so much energy
Every second of this movie could be analyzed thoroughly and only add on to how great this movie and it’s story and characters are.
Agustín standing up for his daughter has more layers than what it seems at first
When Abuela tells Agustín that he should have said something as soon as he saw the vision and to think of the family his answer was
I was thinking of my daughter!
Now, ofc he has shown to be an extremely caring father. Him opposing Abuela is also meaningful because not only she is the matriarch, but also because the director’s tweets have indicated that Abuela didn’t immediately approve of his marriage with Julieta.
But there’s more.
When Bruno is back, when he hugs the triplets from behind, he says “The triplets all reunite”, meaning that he either had a closer relationship with Bruno than what it looked like or that he saw how much Bruno leaving affected his wife and potentially Pepa (maybe both, considering how caring and affectionate he looks there).
Why is this relevant?
When Agustín says “I was thinking of my daughter”, he is also saying “I am not doing to my kid what you did to yours, because she is also family. This is not happening again, because I am not letting you”.
Based on the Encanto episode ideas from @balkanbitch
“Antonio making one of those extremely complicated and hard to follow board games kids make. He makes his family play it and everyone gets way too invested”
Luisa and Mirabel have a really great and sweet relationship. Luisa seems genuinely very kindhearted and like she takes her role as big sister
seriously. She also doesn’t treat her differently for having no powers.
When she gets in the way of Luisa, she responds with “careful sis”, unlike Isabela who responds with an angry “what is your problem!?”
And unlike Isabela who is jealous and thinks Mirabel has it easy, Luisa is never seen showing that kind of attitude despite being probably one of the most overworked Madrigal, to the point of being compared to a mule (beast of burden).
The one time we see her yell at Mirabel, she apologizes immediately saying “uh, wow… sorry, that snuck out there”, showing that she almost never gets angry at Mirabel, if ever.
In Surface Pressure she tells Mirabel to give her burdens to her and Mirabel
smiles for a split second (while Luisa worries about things that will hurt Mirabel). They also don’t have the kind of animosity that Maribel had with Isabela at the start.
And finally, I mean… look at this 🥺
Mirabel looks so uncertain, I’m wondering if they forgot her again but Luisa noticed and dragged her into the photo.
I hope if a series comes out we will get to explore this dynamic more.
Also, In surface pressure, as much as Luisa is singing about how much pressure SHE is under, at the end of the sone she says:
“Instead we measure this growing pressure
Keeps growing, keep growing,
‘cause all we know is
Pressure like a drip, drip, drip that’ll
Never stop.”
WE. Not I, not me, WE!
And then she looks at Mirabel. As if to say “yeah, I know you have pressure put on you too, it may be different than mine, but it’s there.”
I also like to think of when she says “keep going” she’s supporting Mirabel’s journey to fix the family. LUISA IS BEST GORL
