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

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

Show Notes

We Don’t Talk About Bruno, the number one hit song, written by Lin-Manuel Miranda for the Disney movie Encanto, is all about a member of the Madrigal family who no one talks about, Bruno. 

Encanto is a movie about family, but it’s also about trauma and how families connect, separate and become estranged. 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. 

We all have been told and taught that family bonds are unbreakable, but for many, family is their pain and these relationships are broken. 

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. 

Major Sources Cited In This Episode:
-Becca Bland Interview Jan 13, 2021
-Kristina M. Scharp Interview Jan 14, 2021
-Some Families Are Trying to Work Out Their Brexit Differences 
-Research relationalities and shifting sensitivities: doing ethnographic research about Brexit and everyday family relationships
-How Republicans and Democrats would feel if their child married across the political aisle

Host and Writer: Peg Fong
Director: Callie O’Reilly
Theme music: Ian Lefeuvre and Ari Posner
Engineer: Geoff Devine
Series Producers: Debbie O’Reilly, Guillermo Serrano and Allison Pinches
Executive Producer: Terry O’Reilly

This show is brought to you by the Apostrophe Podcast Network and powered by Acast.

Show Notes

We Don’t Talk About Bruno, the number one hit song, written by Lin-Manuel Miranda for the Disney movie Encanto, is all about a member of the Madrigal family who no one talks about, Bruno. 

Encanto is a movie about family, but it’s also about trauma and how families connect, separate and become estranged. 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. 

We all have been told and taught that family bonds are unbreakable, but for many, family is their pain and these relationships are broken. 

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. 

Major Sources Cited In This Episode:
-Becca Bland Interview Jan 13, 2021
-Kristina M. Scharp Interview Jan 14, 2021
-Some Families Are Trying to Work Out Their Brexit Differences 
-Research relationalities and shifting sensitivities: doing ethnographic research about Brexit and everyday family relationships
-How Republicans and Democrats would feel if their child married across the political aisle

Host and Writer: Peg Fong
Director: Callie O’Reilly
Theme music: Ian Lefeuvre and Ari Posner
Engineer: Geoff Devine
Series Producers: Debbie O’Reilly, Guillermo Serrano and Allison Pinches
Executive Producer: Terry O’Reilly

This show is brought to you by the Apostrophe Podcast Network and powered by Acast.

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