it doesn't even make sense from a business perspective. animated minecraft music videos were one of the hugest internet phenomenons. why wouldnt they take inspiration from those???? you could cash in on the nostalgia AND make a movie that doesn't hurt to look at
see Annie and Troy both had the same sickness of “I base my personality and wants on what other people expect of me” however the difference there is that Troy got someone who accepted him unconditionally and didn’t care if he wasn’t “manly” (straight) enough. I think Annie Deserves an equally peculiar and verging on codependent relationship with her own “girl friend” (cough cough) that she can be equally gay and adorable about. In this essay I will-
i love how fraught and complicated discourse around various utena characters ‘dying’ is when anthy is literally stabbed to death eternally by a million swords imbued with human hatred. and then utena gets stabbed to death by them also. like. ‘death’ is incredibly interesting in rgu because most of the time it’s this ambiguous figurative thing that has interesting implications re: ohtori as a closed-off world one can escape. we are all trapped in our coffins. mamiya is the only named character with a grave. nemuro memorial hall functions as one all the same. ruka is implied to have died in the hospital— was he dead all along? who was the boy we saw for these two episodes? is this dead boy the same boy, or is this just another coincidence from the shadow girls, cutting like a knife? it’s heavily implied that akio and anthy murder kanae by poisoning her, adding to the previous implication that they were poisoning mr ohtori too, but there are no perceptible consequences of this. kanae’s absence is not felt. she’s fed an apple slice. what happens to the bodies? we know what happened to the 100 boys, but what about everyone else? and so on and so forth. ‘death’ is a tricky thing in utena, i think it’s constantly functioning on figurative and literal levels in very different ways for very different purposes. dios died. dios was dying. dios didn’t die. he grew up. etc etc
sometimes (read: all the time) the misinterpretations the fandom makes when it comes to encanto characters, plot lines, messages, words, actions, quiet lessons, things, and just literally everything is so infuriating
one good example for this is when people say “mirabel forgave abuela too easily!!!”
she didn’t forgive, not yet, she sees and understands her and that forgiveness can be possible with time and effort from all of them in the family together
but of course people took it as forgiveness that excuses abuela’s actions instead of what it’s really for
media literacy where are you…
and thats only one of the many misinterpretations that the fandom has but its just so ARGHHHHHHH yknow?
encanto is a beautiful movie with beautiful messages and beautiful characters but it gets so muddied with misinterpretations and just—
sigh
yeah
what’s the misinterpretation/s that you are most infuriated/have the most gripes with for encanto?