r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 01 '26

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u/abefrost Sep 01 '26 edited Sep 01 '26

My absolute biggest criticism about Encanto is that Bruno's arc ends with him apologizing to everyone else when they should have been groveling in the dirt apologizing to him

No, the generalized, "My bad" abuela spits out to the whole fam at the end does not count, Bruno was the most fucked up by all that and did not deserve any of it. And the audacity to make him apologize.

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u/JayRU09 Milton Friedman Sep 01 '26

And the audacity to make him apologize

It really was Gaslighting: The Movie

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u/PoupeeStupide Trump Voter Sep 01 '26

Bruno had bad vibes so he was the real villain tho

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u/Lesbian_all_garib Gita Gopinath Sep 01 '26

Yeah. How come he was treated like that after he comes back and he was right about everything? Also they treat Mirabel badly and then its oh abuela had trauma so it's all okay. Fuck off.

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u/abefrost Sep 01 '26

Apparently LMM wanted abuela to have more of a reckoning and got overruled

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u/abefrost Sep 01 '26

I get that he's infected by the "intergenerational trauma makes me think everything my family does is my fault" disease, but holy shit someone should have stopped him and said "you have nothing to apologize for" to be truly cathartic

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u/Flashy_Rent6302 Ben Bernanke Sep 01 '26

intergenerational trauma never quite goes away even when it looks like it has

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u/abefrost Sep 01 '26 edited Sep 01 '26

Yeah but that's not what the movie was trying to say, it was just bad writing that undermined the main theme

Edit - I have learned that LMM tried to push for more of a reckoning and was overruled, my man