We Need To Talk About Bruno

The Magical Healing Message of Encanto

Encanto is such an amazing movie about family, relationships, mental health, grief, and relationships.

Did you notice the disorders/struggles of many of the family members?

🌺 Isabela — The perfectionist who can’t be honest about wanting something different than what everyone else thinks she should want.

💪 Luisa — The woman who is depressed and feels the weight of the world on her shoulders. She can’t bear it all alone forever.

🌩 Pepa — Feels anxious and trapped by her emotions. Storms brew around her whenever she’s upset or hurt.

👂🏻Dolores — Carries the burden of everyone’s secrets

😰 Bruno — The obsessive compulsive worrier. He’s got nervous habits like throwing salt over his shoulder or knocking on wood, and worries that he ruins everything and doesn’t have a place in his family.

😭 Grandma — Grief. Grief. Grief. And so much pressure to do everything right, lest another terrible tragedy fall upon her family.

And many of these struggles is in part, referred to as a “gift” in the movie.

This puts pressure on each character to not show the “shadow” side of their gifts…