Why We Don't Talk About Bruno: Choosing Family Estrangement

<p>We Don’t Talk About Bruno, the number 1 hit song, written by Lin-Manual Miranda for the Disney movie <em>Encanto</em>, is all about a member of the Madrigal family who no one talks about, Bruno.&nbsp;</p><br><p>Encanto is a movie about family, but it’s also about trauma and how families connect, separate and become estranged. </p><p>For a Disney movie, there are some very heavy themes, including war and violence and ruptures within what family members expect from each other and what they can’t accept.&nbsp;</p><br><p>We all have been told and taught that family bonds are unbreakable but for many, family is their pain, and these relationships are broken.&nbsp;</p><p>There’s a certain type of loneliness that comes from being estranged from family, in choosing to depart from the ties that are part of our genetics and our lineage.&nbsp;</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>