I have not seen _Encanto_ but by far the best Disney movie I've seen as an adult is _Moana_ (_Frozen_ is awful, awful, awful, awful). I could watch that movie again and again, and I'm struck by how some of the descriptions you gave of _Encanto_ could just as easily apply to _Moana_.
Moana is pretty good. I have nostalgiac appreciation for Frozen; we saw it in theaters in the middle of an Indiana polar vortex that made it all too real. Hearing "Let It Go" in theaters was honestly a blow-your-hair back moment, ngl.
Thank you, Dallin. That made me see the film in a new light. I always said that the film was great music, great animation, but a story that makes no sense to kids.
I originally saw the film as being about inner generational trauma, but now I see it is a parallel for how religious traditions must adapt or risk an exodus.
The one follow-up I'd add is that I think the movie also suggests that the one who wants the tradition to change, the one who is dismissive of those holding on to the past, is also the villain of the story. In trying to save her family's heritage, she also threatens it. I think it's pretty bold of a kids movie to even imagine the protagonist, in trying to be the hero, becoming the villain, though it loses some of that courage by the end of the film.
I now want to read "Encanto: Disney's rebuttal to constitutional originalism"
Haha! Except, as I say in response to David, those fighting for the "original" positions are not the only villains of the movie!
I have not seen _Encanto_ but by far the best Disney movie I've seen as an adult is _Moana_ (_Frozen_ is awful, awful, awful, awful). I could watch that movie again and again, and I'm struck by how some of the descriptions you gave of _Encanto_ could just as easily apply to _Moana_.
Moana is pretty good. I have nostalgiac appreciation for Frozen; we saw it in theaters in the middle of an Indiana polar vortex that made it all too real. Hearing "Let It Go" in theaters was honestly a blow-your-hair back moment, ngl.
Thank you, Dallin. That made me see the film in a new light. I always said that the film was great music, great animation, but a story that makes no sense to kids.
I originally saw the film as being about inner generational trauma, but now I see it is a parallel for how religious traditions must adapt or risk an exodus.
The one follow-up I'd add is that I think the movie also suggests that the one who wants the tradition to change, the one who is dismissive of those holding on to the past, is also the villain of the story. In trying to save her family's heritage, she also threatens it. I think it's pretty bold of a kids movie to even imagine the protagonist, in trying to be the hero, becoming the villain, though it loses some of that courage by the end of the film.