Film Theory: Dolores BROKE The Magic! (Disney Encanto)

Everyone keeps talking about how Charm doesn't have a good villain, everyone is wrong, Dolores is Charm's villain and I'm about to prove it. Hello Internet, Welcome to Film Theory where I'm making this video to justify the hundreds of hours of my life I've spent watching. in kanto that's not even an exaggeration in kanto it's my three year old son's first movie obsession ali excellent choice on his part i couldn't be more proud but if you know how three year olds work i know it means I've seen this so many times that I'm getting close to the heat death of the universe.

They are all his favorite characters. Every song is your favorite song. And at this point I had to explain the cracks and the little house. Many times, when the child is on the path to becoming a structural engineer, I don't have the heart to tell him that hugs won't fix drywall, we'll have to save that lesson until he turns four, obviously, I'm kidding. The casita is not made of drywall, but rather a combination of stone, bamboo and clay in the traditional Latin American building style called Baja Wreck. In fact, you can see the bamboo structure here as Mirabelle chases Bruno through the walls and says, "When the little house collapses, you don't." In fact, I see some bamboo or really any of the interior structural components of the house.

Instead, it's just a pile of stone and plaster. Where was the interior of this house? Disney. Could it be the

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of the little house? Could it be a hidden secret tradition? Could that be? I've seen this movie too many times, yes, definitely the last one, as you may have discovered at watch 37. I started to notice some crazy details inside this thing to help keep me sane, like here where Aunt Peppa covers the ears of a stuffed animal. teddy bear while she talks about He Who Shall Not Be Named or here where it looks like they gave Mirabelle's dad some hidden Mickey ears or how the closing song literally brings together every other song on the show and at the same time gives me some strong ones spring awakening vibes.

Of course, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the fact that Luisa's coliseum is full of donkeys cheering her on, and of course I have to get this complaint out of the way, but when Mirabelle climbs to the top of Bruno's room, why? It's going up? doesn't actually exist in the overhead shot, you can actually see it based on her angle relative to the door she's supposedly looking at and don't even get me started on the fact that there's nothing for her to anchor her swing and that the momentum of his swing does not match the angle of his landing, it can be said that this was probably at one time a setup that was reduced to a last movement on the final pitch.

I'm just saying that Bruno's room scene really bothered me, but out of everything in this movie, no character has There are so many interesting animation details and pains like here and we're not talking about Bruno, where the fish girl, the only one who is not a family member in the lineup, is replaced in the dance by Dolores, such a strange detail, probably some element left over from the production, but What's really interesting are the details of Dolores' character, like here where she's forced to cover her ears when the fireworks start going off because of her super hearing or here where she claps using only two fingers because again doing more than that would hurt her ears or here where she gives her cousin Isabella an evil look, wait, That kind of passive-aggressive look is not something I would expect to see in a sweet, unassuming character like pains, I mean, this is a character a lot of people put up with. for being the unsung hero of the family, but then I did what I usually do, I dug a little deeper and really started to think about what we see and hear about pain throughout this movie and little by little the pieces began to fit together she's actively working against the family, she's miserable, she's sick of being overlooked, and she's using Mirabelle as a weapon to sabotage the family and extinguish the miracle.

Oh, sorry, it's an inconvenient truth. I only have one thing to say. Start with some of the details I already mentioned about Dolores Gift, we are told in the opening song that because of her super gift of hearing, she and it doesn't seem like a huge exaggeration as we see that she can hear. conversations that happen elsewhere in the city probably behind closed doors. Do we have a date tonight? He wants five babies, and while that seems like a cool power in

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, in actual practice this would be miserable. His sensitivity to sound doesn't seem to be. capable of shutting down as it actively makes her recoil when things like fireworks explode around her, as a result we see that she constantly hears information she doesn't want to hear, no one has to know, I know it's also something that scientifically Little by little she would be going crazy You see, the amygdala is this small group of neurons roughly in the center of the brain that helps us with emotional responses, specifically when we process fear responses, when she cowers because of the boom of the fireworks.

The fight or flight response is activated because those types of discordant sounds are important for human survival, they tend to jump the line, so to speak, when it comes to processing, that's actually thought to be one of the reasons why that the amygdala is in the center. of the brain, provides close proximity to all other important functions of the brain again to reactivate our survival instinct. The thing is, because Dolores hears so well, she would actually be inundated with this type of input all the time, experiencing a constant sensory sensation. overload we're talking about someone who can literally hear an eye moving from a completely different room in the house the only one worried about

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is you and the rats talking in the walls oh elisa I heard her eye moving the entire night she spent her life Listen to everything in the city and the walls around him he would be miserable, he would barely be able to concentrate on anything or get a night's rest, but it's a blessing, it can't be that bad, these powers are meant to be a miracle, I hear you.

I'm saying and I'm sure some of the powers are really cool, but Dolores Tia Peppa and Bruno, well, they got the short end of the stick on that one, healing with food, great, super strength, awesome, controlling the weather fine in

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, but having your own private rain cloud. follow you while you're in a bad mood, which makes your bad mood even worse, yes that's clearly going to stink up the face of someone who feels blessed with the hashtag and it's worth remembering that tia peppa is pains, mom, that the powers They seemed to run on that side of the family, I guess in the meantime Bruno got himself a gift that literally makes the entire town hate him and has mentally affected him to such a point that he feels like he must constantly perform superstitious luck rituals, that's not it. a blessing.

Can we talk about Bruno? room, the giant stone cliff, a room that was again granted to him by the miracle, yeah, that sucks too, even the movie acknowledges this one. I left my tower, which was, you know, a lot of stairs and pain, as we discussed while everyone else is. She claps and watches fireworks, shakes her fingers and covers her ears when everyone else eats dinner peacefully, is forced to listen to her unrequited love talk about his marriage proposal plans, her life sucks while Mirabelle feels sad about not being special in his superpowered family. Dolores has it much worse because she has powers that actively work against her living a happy life if saving herself and her mother Aunt Peppa from these miserable cursed powers is not a reason to try to end the magic of the family, I don't know that.

Oh wait, I know another reason for pain, plus you know that getting out of the immense sensory overload she's constantly subjected to by destroying the magic could also help with the whole unrequited love thing. We don't talk about Bruno. I learned that Bruno's prediction for Dolores was that Mariano aka Isabella, Dolores likely wanted to destroy the family magic in an effort to derail Bruno's prediction or sabotage the engagement to Isabella, thus allowing Mariano to be free to she, I mean, we see. How eager is she to pick him up when he becomes a free agent at the end of the movie, did you meet Dolores?

Okay, I'll take it from here, bye, but working against the family to do it seems a little right, wrong, actually Go back to the moment I mentioned in the introduction, his evil eye towards Isabella. Watch the scene when she was asked if there is a date for Mariano's proposal. We understand this. Do we have a date tonight? He wants five babies and pauses at this look. I actually got a big reveal about Dolores' motivations in this movie. She's not just sad because Mariano married someone else. She actively resents Isabella's relationship with him. In fact, the way I see it, she might have even made up the whole "He wants five kids" line to freak out.

Isabella maybe even scaring her, it seems to have a big impact and if you think about it, it's too sinister a move for her, not really from the first moments of the

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. It is established that Dolores is very selfish when the town kids are harassing Mirabelle for her gift, something Mirabelle is clearly uncomfortable admitting based on all her song and dance trying to deflect from their questions, Dolores simply appears and exposes her. with nothing more than a shrug later, when mirabelle tries to exaggerate the pains. with mariano, she literally just pushes her out of the way and that's just little things.

What about all the times she actively goes out of her way to explicitly sabotage members of her family? Look at the information she chooses and does not choose. retained in the

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at the proposal dinner is Dolores who decides to start the chain of events that turns the night into a disaster. Despite knowing the chaos it would cause, she actively relays the information about Mirabelle finding the vision the first chance she gets. . and instead of staying silent at the climax of the meal, she blurts out why she would do this because she's a gossip who has no self-control, no that's not a good enough reason, in fact the movie tells us exactly what's going on in a couple.

Minutes before I return to the lyrics of We Don't Talk About Bruno in the final round as everyone sings a repetition of their previous verses. It's difficult to distinguish the lyrics of Dolores, but her words have actively changed since the first time she sang them. She says she told me that the man of my dreams would be out of my reach engaged to another. It's like she hears it now, but when she sings it again, it changes. She told me that the man of my dreams would be out of reach engaged to someone else. another and I'm fine and I'm fine and I'm fine and I'm fine she repeats it four times something tells me that she's really not fine going to that dinner and even though she's more than eager to share that information with the family to ruin the proposal dinner look what information she chooses to hide from everyone she doesn't defend mirabelle the first time the cracks appear again this is someone who can literally hear an eye moving and yet doesn't hear any of the cracks that have been forming in the house since Bruno is gone and since Mirabelle's botched gift-giving ceremony, that's frankly not possible, wait, have you been here mending the cracks?

It means that she is intentionally hiding that information and talking about intentionally hiding information in which Bruno the walls while the rest of the family thinks he disappeared or ran away pains knows that she has been hiding in the walls for years to hurt him every day and once again she never reveals that information to anyone, a human being in which her own family member lives in the walls of her house and she does nothing about it. I guess it's because he was the one who predicted that she would suffer and be ignored, but regardless of the reason, you have to admit that it's cold, but do you want the biggest proof that this? it's intentional, not just me overthinking some random moments in the movie, look at the final door when little house collapses, everyone loses their powers and suddenly pains, life goes higher and higher, she and her mother no longer They have to deal with their terrible curse. powers, she can finally be seen by the man of her dreams, I see you and I hear you, but then after rebuilding the little house, the madrigals get a new door that represents the whole family excited that the magic has returned, everyone is happy in this photo of the door. with their mouth up, everyone except Dolores has their eyes down and literally the only person without their mouth up, it's strange, it's a really strange detail in a series of strange details surrounding this character, here's the tl dr friends that Dolores is old enough to know it.

Bruno's prediction, in fact, she knows that Mirabelle is somehow connected to all the cracks in the walls and that the family is afraid that Mirabelle will kill themiracle and knows that the warning that knocks down the first domino pains she is the one who points Mirabelle in Louisa's direction she is the one who continues to sow family discord by dropping truth bombs during important dinners she is the one who actively hides the cracks and at the same time At the same time, she covers up the family members who live in the walls. She is the one who feels miserable because of her power and the one who is forced to live in jealousy of her cousin and she is the only one who looks sad at the final door. when everyone's powers return in the narrative a villain is a character whose actions oppose the positive resolution of the plot everything that Dolores does and doesn't do throughout the film actively drives more cracks in the house and is going to put out The miracle, if that, my friends, is not a villain, I don't know what it is, and it's esoteric how the little house falls apart, but hey, that's just a theory, a cinematographic theory that