#*encanto

If not, then it’s fine to not post or answer this.

I’ll just rant lmao.

I’m pretty frustrated with people who kept insisting that the Grandmother was the villain and that she shouldn’t be forgiven. I understand that opinion and that it comes from their own experiences with family members who were very difficult to deal with. However, considering the trauma she has experienced (fleeing from her home to escape the dangers, being displaced, watching her husband get brutally murdered, raising triplets as a single mother, and being chosen to be the leader of a village because of the miracle) and the fact that she ACTUALLY APOLOGIZED…she isn’t a villain. She’s also a victim of generational trauma. She is very complex character and it’s unfair to call her a villain. People are pretty much projecting at this point and not wanting a happy ending. Most likely, they can’t forgive the grandmother because their own abusive relatives have not recognized their faults and have not really apologized to them. The whole point of the movie is moving on and working together as a family. That can’t happen if the rest of the family can’t forgive the grandmother. And at least, she admitted her faults and apologized! ALSO latin culture is VERY family oriented! They value family the most! I’m just glad the grandmother apologized UNLIKE some characters who are generally well loved by the public (IM LOOKING AT YOU LEIA and LUKE)

Hello Nonny

I haven't seen the movie but I know the story by now and frankly speaking it can be both?

Alma can be a victim and also be an antagonist. Antagonist and villain don't have to be the same function in the story so in a way she is not a villain but she is the antagonist of this story. She is the one who via her generational trauma weakened the foundation of her own family aka her own Casita. The Magic is a straightforward metaphor of Family warmth and it has been flickering and dying simply because as head of the household, she has failed to cherish her family for individuals and instead uses them as tools to better the Encanto village way more.

That is the tragedy of a lot of families besieged by traumatic history like war and colonization-- we carry unchecked bad coping tactics and as a person who has received "success" doing what she does to her and with her family after nearly loosing it all, a woman like Alma won't be so inclined to change her ways and think her actions are the real problem.

As someone who has been around old people a lot, let me tell you Old people are one of the least resistant to change in personality than anyone else. Its understandable because the idea of reinventing oneself at a time when one finally should feel settled on who they really are is EXHAUSTING to even think about. However, in cases like we see with LATAM and Asian families, it comes with the drawback of older generation not giving shit of damages they inflict.

So yes Alma is both victim and the antagonist.

This is why the device of literal gift of power that can flicker and die out is a good storytelling device because as result oriented as Alma is, having her ways become finally redundant to the point it gets the opposite result she wanted is the ONLY way for her to see that she is wrong.

I have listened to my moots and friends say it is unrealistic that Alma would take herself to be responsible after the chaos of Casita breaking down and would rather keep continuing to blame Mirabel incessantly. I sorta agree in a real world its possible that would happen. But then..this is not real. This is a story which has more basis on the soap opera structure that most of LATAM and Asian people enjoy!

I mean my Indian moots know DDLJ right? How many conservative parents you know who would let their daughter last minute run away with a University failed, lying foreigner scoundrel to get married after breaking the done betrothal?? *SNORT*

.{^^^ This is not happening, Your best bet is to badger your parents to death and not waste their money on a wedding you won't go through , LMAO}

Yet hope springs eternal. Movies and musicals like Encanto is that it supposed to aspirational.