The parallels between this film and this specific autistic experience are immediate right away as the viewer is introduced to Mirabel Madrigal (Stephanie Beatriz). She’s part of the Madrigal family, a clan defined by how everyone has extraordinary superpowers…except for Mirabel. She’s just a normal person who has grown up her whole life feeling like a disappointment, especially to her grandmother, Abuela Amidala Madrigal (María Cecilia Botero), over something she was born with. Being conscious of how you don’t have control over these unique parts of your personality, though, doesn’t automatically erase the self-consciousness.I’ve lived with that feeling for years as an autistic person who was diagnosed around the age of 3 years old. I didn’t understand all the finer nuances of my diagnosis, but I did know that I was autistic and that it made me different from other people. This was especially apparent during family gatherings, where my sensitivity to loud noises and crowds, not to mention difficulty in verbal communication, meant I was working overtime to keep things together. These social events were meant to be about bringing people together but looking around at all the adult’s faces, capable of not having to bury their ears during a Christmas dinner, I just felt more isolated.
Mackenzie Davis has been a favorite for a good while now, but it’s especially exciting to see her filmography continue to grow with such a wide variety of projects, working with some of the most striking voices in the industry. Now that resume grows with HBO Max’s extremely stirring adaption of Emily St. John Mandel’s novel, Station Eleven, from showrunner Patrick Somerville with episodes directed by Hiro Murai, Jeremy Podeswa, Helen Shaver and Lucy Tcherniak.The story begins with the world on the cusp The King’s Man of a significant flu outbreak. The pandemic devastates civilization, completely obliterating the technology we rely on and our way of life in general. Twenty years in the future, Davis’ character, Kirsten, is part of the Traveling Symphony, a group of actors and musicians who travel the region performing Shakespeare for various communities. Even though the group seems to have found great purpose in this new world, an unexpected encounter challenges them to reconsider what to hold onto from the path and how best to create a new future.
These childhood experiences rang through my mind watching Mirabel in Encanto’s opening song, “The Madrigal Family”. The lyrics here gradually reveal that Mirabel is always hiding away her lack of superpowers. When you’re surrounded your entire life by people who aren’t like you, you inevitably develop the notion, like Mirabel has, that you’re the “outsider”. It’s not even that Mirabel’s entire family is abusive. On the contrary, we see several of her relatives (including her mother) being extremely kind to her. The same is true of my own family. But that doesn’t mean you can’t still escape the feeling of knowing they’ll never 100% understand the experiences you’re going through.However, I did feel like Mirabel would understand my plight and my attachment to her as a parallel to an autistic individual proved extra easy to do since this protagonist is so far removed from typical pop culture portrayals of autism. Mirabel’s way of coping with feeling like an “outsider” in the Madrigal family isn’t to become withdrawn or an emotionless robot-like Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) on The Big Bang Theory, a figure the audience is supposed to laugh at because they’re different.
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