E N C A N T O 💫
We Don’t Talk About Bruno *ENCANTO* 🕯 offers a fascinating yet important take on life. In J. Cole’s track “Love Yourz,” he raps, “No such thing as a life that’s better than yours.” I could be wrong but it feels like whoever wrote *Encanto* is a diehard J. Cole fan because this movie is the animated, mild version of that song. The main character, Mirabel, initially comes off as a hater. Her entire family is blessed with unique gifts, while she appears gift-less. She spends most of her time focused on her family’s gifts and her lack thereof, believing that a person’s gift defines their entire worth. Later in the movie, the writers show and prove that this mindset is neither true nor healthy. As humans, we are much more than the gifts God has blessed us with. Nobody is truly perfect, and anyone claiming to be perfect is probably unhappy on the inside. Another line from “Love Yourz” goes, “There’s beauty in the struggle, ugliness in the success.” This bar is embodied in *Encanto* (as...