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Ok, I need
to watch Encanto 2957950281 times more to absorb every bit of it, but in the
meantime here’s a list with some little details I loved:—That habit
Mirabel has of wiping her hands before touching a doorknob. We see little
Mirabel do it before her magic door, excited about the upcoming gift; but 10
years later she keeps doing it, as if she had developed a subtle anxiety about
closed doors. Or perhaps she just sweats a lot, lol; Bruno’s “you’re very
sweaty” seems to back up that. It was something so mundane that I loved
it.—The
GLASSES. As a short-sighted woman who’s been wearing glasses for more than 25
years, I really really really appreciated Mirabel’s glasses and all the
unconscious movements associated to them. Every time she had to readjusted her
glasses because they fell or slipped over her nose, I was like 8D (that scene in Bruno’s room with her glasses full of sand, omg)—Actually,
Mirabel herself is just amazing. I was afraid they could give us the dorky-girl-with-glasses
archetype, but thank God they didn’t. She’s unique and so tree-dimensional: her
expressions, her body language, her energy, her optimistic but not childish
behavior. The latter is very important, tbh, because optimistic female characters
are often infantilized and portrayed as too innocent and easy to fool.
Mirabel’s actually pretty mature (emotionally mature, at least), and brave and
strong and soft and loving, and she seems just real, not fitting any defining
archetype/trope that constrains her personality. How awesome is that, folks.
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