- The work won the Oscar Award for Best Animated Feature at the 2022 ceremony.
- The feature film is inspired by Colombian culture.
- The animated film ‘Enchantment’ is one of Disney’s most recent successes.
Many times there is the idea that animated films are exclusively for children. Although it is their target audience, in reality they are films that can be enjoyed by people of all ages. In addition, most of the times they are works that contain deeper messages than they appear. A recent case can be seen with the movie ‘Charm’, one of the most recent successes of Disney because in the background there are several hidden clinical cases.
Brief history of the world’s largest animation studio
In that sense, the studio founded by Walt Disney remains the world leader in the production of animated films. Its origin dates back to 1923 with the production of black and white short films. As the years went by, his popularity grew, and the studio’s run of success continued into the 1930s.
While in 1937 the first feature film of this film studio was released and it was ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’. The film was an instant financial success and allowed other similar stories to continue.
Health and children’s stories
In this regard, as we already indicated, this film is based on a children’s story by the Brothers Grimm. While The original story was based on the real case of the German princess Maria Sofía Margarita Catalina Von Erthal, who lived in the 18th century and contracted chickenpox.
But this relationship between animation and health is not exclusive to such ancient times. In fact, the most recent success of Disney, the film inspired by Colombian culture, ‘Encanto’, hides several clinical cases in its history.
To delve into this topic, the doctor with the user @lucianurosodico identified that several of the film’s protagonists have heart disease. The result of his finding was published in a Twitter thread that has received several favorable comments.
In the first place, she points out that Julieta Madrigal illustrates mitral stenosis: “This seems to me to be the best thread, since MS is preferably diagnosed in middle-aged women, especially in Latin Americans.
Then he mentions Pepa Madrigal, who has dyspnea of cardiac aetiology. According to the doctor, she does not have much of a mystery and points out that she atrial fibrillation it is the cause of left heart failure and, therefore, of dyspnea.
🧵Mini mini thread of the clinical cases I prepared for the Cardio rotation on ❤ conditions in “Charm” characters 🧵 pic.twitter.com/nt2j5UpRUw
— 💀Yu Shia Esnips💀 (@lucianurosodico) March 14, 2022
Finally, he adds that Bruno Madrigal suffers from Scasest or unstable angina. The diagnosis is because it is a 45-year-old man who is a smoker. While inside the movie he states that he has several months with chest pain that worsens when he goes up the stairs or walks in the street.
In this way, the health professional reaffirms that within any film there are always several hidden stories. Sometimes all it takes is paying attention to the little details. For now, did you observe other clinical cases in Disney’s ‘Enchantment’?