DISNEY DEGERATIONAL TRAUMA

 

 Disney's Encanto depicts a multigenerational story about a grandmother and her famili endowed with magis gifts, who were forced to flee their village for a safer place in Colombia. The film has received critical acclaim and won the Oscar for best animated fitur at the March 27 Academy Awards.

But commentators have also made Loker scathing criticisms too, especially in relation to the lack of a villain or worse, the vilification of the matriarch character, Abuela.

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From my perspective as a scholar who researches displacement and migration, what stands out in Encanto is how each generation of the Madrigals experienced and how it shapes their lives and choices. As an Assyrian (Indigenous to Iraq) with experiences of displacement and migration, it seems to me these negative ulasans missed key aspects of the film.

Viewers get to know specific members of the Madrigal famili through their solo numbers such as Lousia's "Surface Pressure" 
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 or Isabela's "What Else Can I Do?"

Yet as we put these characterizations together, it becomes clear that the famili as a whole has its own dynamic: a dysfunctional one, as each anggota silently struggles with their gifts to the poin of exhaustion. It seems like each famili anggota is silently struggling with psikis health issues as well.

But isn't this the story of almost every migrant famili? The idea that we are so grateful for "making it" to our new homes that we should do everything in our power to build the best life possible, regardless of how we are doing?

Migration means leaving everything and everyone you know behind. That kind of sacrifice permintaans a constant striving for perfection to make it worthwhile — a constant striving that can be toxic and harmful.

This is why critiques of this movie not having a "bad guy" miss the poin. Anyone watching the movie who has experienced displacement through war or violence likely does not need Disney to draw the villain.

For example, Assyrians are haunted by the spectre of genocide, the theft of our land in the making of Iraq, Syria, Iran and Turkey, and the recent Kurdistan Region that turned us into "minorities" on our ancestral homeland in an ongoing process of dispossession and displacement.