My opinion about Encanto as a Colombian.
You know? I enjoyed it a lot. The music was a mix of the most popular genres of my country, maybe some people who don’t live around here would not appreciate it completely, but I did. In fact “We don’t talk about Bruno” is my favorite song of the whole movie since it mixes some of the rhythms I adore, like salsa (I adore salsa. You can put me a song and I will start moving without even noticing it)
The outfits were amazing! We don’t dress like that anymore, but they are just our typical outfits. They represented so good our biodiversity, gastronomy, landscapes, literature with the Gabriel Garcia Marquez references and the message of the story is so beautiful and cute! All the characters were amazing, I had real fun in that cinema. I also identified myself a lot with Mirabel…for being the black sheep of the family and having a perfect and beautiful sister to compare with, always
What touched me the more was the fact that the architecture of the town, and its surroundings, looked a lot like where my dad used to live when I was a child. It was a colonial village in the middle of the mountains, where people was very close to each other and it was so small you could actually walk through it in less than 15 min. We usually visited other towns during the weekends and the landscapes were always full of wax palms and mountains! So beautiful.
I lived in the city and actually went there just to visit my dad.
I liked how they represented with respect the forced displacement that many people suffer around here.
Colombia is the country with the most internally displaced persons in the world. Between 1985 and 2020, more than 8.3 million people in Colombia had to leave their home fleeing violence, according to figures from the Colombian government that includes a report from the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) of June 2021.
Our country is beautiful! But paramilitary groups, guerrilla, the mafia and so many other conflicts had affected so many people that until now things have gotten a little better. When my mother was younger she had to leave everything behind to scape from the guerrilla which were attacking her home town, Their family lost everything and she had to learn to defend herself in the capital without finishing school or being an adult. In the year 2000 a whole poblation called “The Salado” was killed by those criminals!
In fact, violence kept for a while that even myself had to live through those dark times where traveling wasn’t safe enough. Thank god after the peace treaty we have more normal lifes now without all those criminal organizations.
So, this gives a more special sense to the movie for me.
It was beautiful, it was amazing and I cried a few times because I was so happy about Disney finally giving some representation of my country! Like, hell, it was my country! I can’t still believe that finally we had some international focus in an animated movie. I loved it!
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