Film Theory: Encanto, The Madrigal Family SECRET!

That’s fair but it’s revealed in the art book that Augustine is from outside the encanto so chances are there’s a trickle of people coming in

A lot of people probably think you're exaggerating when you say you've seen the movie 50+ times with your kid, but as a parent I want to assure y'all that it's not an exaggeration. When a kid gets hooked they may watch a movie 2-5 times a day. Two weeks in and you've had it in the background 59+ times.

Kinda impressive how MatPat was able to take a movie like Encanto and managed to conclude that everyone was simply a result of methodically planned out inbreeding.

"We haven't stopped" is the struggle of a parent, good luck with the rest of the movie binge watching Mat

The main problem with the theory is that it’s been confirmed that people have come in from outside the village. Also, there were plenty of people living there even initially that inbreeding wouldn’t happen in just 50 years, which really isn’t that long when it comes to this topic.

On a random note, I'm now just mentally hearing MatPat singing "We Don't Talk About Bruno" while walking around the house planning his theories for Encanto. That just lives rent free in my head now, especially cuz MatPat's voice is *amazing.*

I love the fact that we're still getting theories about this movie because Matt is being forced to watch it against his will at the command of a toddler.

The only problem with this theory is that there’s 2 characters in the movie who speak about coming from out of town

Abuela: sings a whole verse in The Family Madrigal Also Abuela: *Mirabel! What are you doing?* Regarding the bridge, Luisa was later told after it was revealed that Mariano wanted five babies from Isabela to re-route the river. But it looks like she was already in the process of doing that during the song, since she's arranging everything else in the town for a wedding. Or, she just put that bridge there on purpose from its original spot on the river just to continue on the song as Mirabel made her way to the Casita

Regarding the road and the bridge, my interpretation is that Luisa is re-arranging the town for the wedding. That's why she's moving the church to a more central location, that's why she's diverting the river and moving the bridge because she diverted the river and now it flows on a new path, thus needed her to move the existing bridge to a new location.

The 50 rule is on an already isolated community. It's shown in the movie that the village is very genetically diverse with a wide range of skin and hair types, and body shapes. The village they originated from was probably one that had excellent trade and population movement

I love how mat pat is one of the nicest people ever and he starts with topics like inbreeding and cannibalism

Mirabel, her sisters and cousins are the first generation of their family to be born within the Encanto. Presumably, there have only been one or two generations for other families in the village. Another comment mentioned how one of her family members (who married into the family) came from outside the village. But it couldn't hurt to have some more generic diversity lol

This theory assumes the original 25 couples were not related, but why wouldn't you escape with your sisters, brothers, cousins and their partners

Film theory idea: The tv show “A Series of Unfortunate Events”. It is tremendously packed with lore, and although it isn’t insanely popular like some of the shows you make theories on, it is so stuffed with lore.

Bridge in middle of road explanation theory: they had a boat too tall to go under the bridge, so Luisa picked up the bridge, puts it on the road off to the side (in a way that people can still walk over it so as to not cause a roadblock) then after the bridge passes and mirabel walks up into it, Luisa puts it back

Now just to make people uncomfortable, I want to do this: “Your kids are beautiful!” “Thanks! They’re outbred.”

One thing I heard is that Encanto’s plot, at least one of the early drafts, was originally going to be a “journey” set plot were the main cast would leave Encanto and into the modern world. With a show confirmed to be in the making, I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if that original plot would be the basis for it, and if it is, it would be a solution to this issue.

1:40 Casita fixed itself. Casita's "health" is determined by the general mental/emotional state of Abuela/Mirabel, so, I don't really know exactly what counts as "bad enough mental health for Casita to be cracking" vs "good enough mental health for Casita to be cracking," but I think maybe just the fact that Mirabel was, at that point, distracted by the cracks rather than focusing on her internal depression (or whatever you want to call it) may have been sufficient for the cracks to go away. But hey, that's just a theory. A film theory!

I love how much Matpat goes and puts lots of his time in just one video.