Well said!

Yepp, I totally agree.

100% agree with this. I feel like being the next Matriarch is a huge deal and too many people gloss over that.

Agreed!! That role is so important!! I witnessed how important it was when my Meme passed... with society turning to a more independent and nuclear family emphasis, i think we lose a lot of those ties that ultimately, we yearn for as we get older.

Abuela 🤝 mirable No gifts at all but has the control over the Casita.

With the nursery’s window facing out towards the town, she was just like the candle how it faced the entire family.

IK why she didn’t get her gift cause she wiped her hands if you re watch teh screen you will understand

@@premarald6053 That she wipes the magic from the candle off onto her dress instead of the magic onto the doorknob? That’s definitely possible.

Mhm

@@premarald6053 i was thinking about that too after i first watched

That's the most Disney gift ever

Her gift is music videos lol

You could say that she brings people together. Mirabel can be seen as "unity". Of course Disney would give her princess powers.

Best gift ever 😂

It is true, but I wonder what happened to Abuela. Her gift was basically a candle, but it's gone now and the house is controlled by Mirabel. Is it an Abuela's 'punishment for treating her granddaughter as a scapegoat and now she doesn't have a gift?

@@CattyLoveKittenLove I don't think Abuela had any 'active' gifts, but some say her gift was the 'creation of the miracle' from herself and her grief (as well as her fallen husband). Which is why she was so protective of the candle and their power. So she was preserving what she thought was her own gift, which were the more super power gifts her family obtained.

@@thetaytheist ohhh.. yeah, that makes sense. :)

I’ve been telling people that Mirabel’s gift the entire time was Casita itself and that the gift was more of a passive one that no one in the family or village had noticed but there were always clues that Mirabel was using her gift the entire time and everyone didn’t notice because it wasn’t an obvious gift like the rest of the Madrigals. Casita has actual conversations with Mirabel and responds to her more actively than anyone else including Abuella who just asks it to do a few tasks or help out with something where Mirabel thanks Casita for reminding her about the time so she can do tasks and chores when she is distracted and it actively help her get ready each morning while it doesn’t do the same for Antonio despite him sharing a room at the beginning of the movie with Mirabel. The door didn’t actually vanish into nothingness as it can be seen fading away from the top down and goes into a he floor which doesn’t make sense if Mirabel was granted no gift because if that were true then the door should have vanished either instantly or slowly fade away from the floor up and into the air.

@@kenthuang436 Her gift seemed to be the same as what the candle was doing. Casita was more of a placeholder. Considering that without the candle, they all regain her powers, she became the source of their power. That was Mirabel's gift. Throughout the movie they hint it when her sisters feel stronger doing what they want, or weaker, when their family fights. It's all an analogy for being special or talented, or gifted. Her entire family has very outward gifts, and she doesn't. And the story was trying to shine light on gifts you don't see.

same thoughts. no gift for her for she herself is the gift ❤

It's not a fully-formed theory but I want to believe Abuela was unconsciously also Casita: her gift -- the first gift -- from the candle, the miracle of her and Pedro's love. The cracks in the casita, the physical manifestation of Abuela's need to protect the family, seem to mirror Abuela's growing fear and doubt. The candle then manifested within Mirabel, so Abuela could let go.

and also, her outline on the front door was more prominent than the family members around her

Yeah, abuela and mirabel are the only ones who are seen controlling the casita. They have the same power, I.e being able to command the house. So she will inherit abuelas door I guess.

Of course not her real power is stopping time to sing a song😂

Yeah, in the end she’s in the front on the front door, she put the doorknob on the door and gave the house it’s magic, your statement would be right. Her room is the whole casita.

Ya

She got the best room

Exactly! I also noticed how deeply connected to Casita she was. The rest of the family simply interacted with Casita to fulfill their needs. She treats Casita as a being with feelings, thoughts, etc (she apologizes when the banners droop, she asks the house for help introducing her family, and again when she needs to reach the candle. She asks Casita what’s wrong when the roof tile falls). Furthermore, she’s the only Madrigal who isn’t removed from Casita when it falls apart. They were all moved aside to make room for the gift-Mirabel-to do its/her thing.

thats why casita and mirabel are bffs

Also in the movie when the house started to fall apart. Casita legit kicked and pushed everyone out the house except Mirabel. Tho casita protected Mirabel so she wouldn't get hurt.

Näp

That's what I thought too since Mirabel talked and interacted with Casita. She could also see what others could not such as cracks etc. and what was coming.

@@katcrooks1780 his name is Antonio

@@katcrooks1780 don’t think she controls the gift of a family member, really. It was implied that Antonio was an animal loving kid before his gift, so Mirabel likely just made him a stuffed animal of his favorite animal. However I do think the gifts are catered to the interests and personalities of the Madrigals. Luisa: seems like a busybody, very protective, very active. She gets super strength and implied impervious skin. Isabela: When her powers are growing she lists off a litany of plants off the top of her head, implying that she is a fan of botany as a whole at heart. In the song “All of You” she’s visible excited to grow plants the old fashioned way. Dolores: Super hearing, but is noted to enjoy gossip, which she can’t help but hear. Camilo: Likes making people laugh and brightening up their days, so he can shapeshift, and play up acts and make modpodge caricatures, like his dad but 3 feet shorter, or a grown man with a baby head. Antonio: loves animals, can talk to animals Julieta: very nurturing, she can heal with the food she makes Bruno and Pepa evade me a little, but I’m sure the connections are there. I think Mirabel is next in line to take over as head of the Madrigal household and liaison to the community at large. It could be surmised that once Abuela passes she’ll inherit that room, but catered to her needs.

If you pay close attention, like in many of Bruno's visions, the content shifted a bit even as it was ongoing. Mirabel, Casita and the candle stay mostly the same, but Isabella and Abuelo are superimposed on each other during the hug...

Yes it was so touching A protector Down to the very end

I agree!! The scene where it protected Mirabel and covered her when the house collapsed was so incredibly touching, and I pointed that out to my brother multiple times when I first saw the movie.

Takes after the spirit of Pedro when he created the Candle.

yes i love casita

yes i agree

The casita went out of it's way to try to help her there with the railing ladder, the shingles becoming level to prevent her from falling, and finally moving furniture and doors to shield her from debris.

Yessssss!!!

Exactly

Yes

I noticed that too. And how everyone who had magic powers lost it in the middle of casita falling apart. Since they always relied on their powers and now had lost it they couldn’t do much to help so casita pushed them out. Mirabel didn’t need powers to get things done, had a good relationship with casita, and casita knew that she was the only one that could save the family as a whole.

who’s pedro

@@crazyrobloxjj Abuela’s husband (Mirabel’s grandfather)

Mhm

@@crazyrobloxjj *peppa pig's boyfriend* 🐷👌🏻

We don’t know that Pedro died because it didn’t show, if they make a TV show he might come back

That makes the most sense, cause Abuela asked for her eyes to be opened and for the answer to be presented to her. She later said mirabel was sent to her for that reason, she was sent to open her eyes and get her to love her family for themselves and not their gifts.

Wow, good thinking!

Even more so if it's Pedro inside Casita; that would have been the sort of thing that he would have did for Abuela in life when she had a problem: guide her down another path.

This is a dick move by Casita. Select a child to basically emotionally abuse. Make feel lesser than, unwanted, doesn't even give her a bedroom, she has to stay in the nursery.

@@TheSyncos Casita fr acting like God with Job, if ykwm

Thank you!! I don't know why the person making this vid didn't just sum this up at the beginning and THEN went into the details... especially since the details are mainly known anyway.

@@KyuubiSam Because they want people to watch the whole video. KZfaq doesn't count it as a view if someone watches it for 30 seconds then leaves.

So basically being everybody's therapist an emotional Dumping Ground

I think all 12 minutes was definitely worth my time as she summed it up well. I liked hearing her discuss the symbolism and despite watching it several times already I missed the designs on everyone’s clothing

Thank you - this video needs to get to the point quicker

This. Mirabel would absolutely be considered the talented person of the family if she wasn't born in the Madrigals who have literal superpowers.

This fits with my idea as well, I think Casita IS Mirabel’s gift

This was my theory too. Notice how in some scenes, casita slides Mirabel her shoes. She tells casita to lift her up and it does, casita seems to BE Mirabel and/or Mirabel’s mental state. And the fact that you said the rest of the family seems to ignore casita, that is symbolism for the family ignoring Mirabel for having seemingly no gift. But during one scene when Alma and Mirabel were fighting, the house starts to crumble as Mirabel reaches her climax, and then once she hits her lowest, so too does the home. Also some might argue that the cracks were forming way before the meltdown Mirabel and Alma had together. That’s because Mirabel ALWAYS felt useless to the family ever since she was 5 and found o it she was given “no gift”. The cracks would build and build and build until finally, it crumbled along with her emotions. Such a great message for “broken families” who feel that they have no safe space to talk about their feelings, children feeling like they have to repress their emotions and keep it all in, mothers such as Pepa trying her best and dealing with her gift of heavy emotions so much so that they manifest as the weather. I feel Pepa’s gift represents emotional/mental illness and dealing with the struggles of having to constantly compose yourself or else you’re a “danger” to the family. Isabella representing the “perfect” and feminine child who can’t afford to have one imperfection, this goes without saying. Bruno being the “strange/weird” family member who had to cut his own family out simply because they couldn’t accept his gift or who he was and associating his strangeness as a flaw or sore thumb in the family. And then there’s Mirabel who is the middle (youngest)child that everyone seems to ignore/forget. Edit: Mirabel is not the middle child. I meant to say Luisa is the middle child dealing with all the stress and having to be the strongest one and not being able to cry, otherwise she will be seen as “weak”. That being said, I believe Mirabel’s door disappeared because her room/door was literally the ENTIRE house itself. Casita itself. Which is why the front door is HER door. Edit: I would also like to add I feel as though Dolores may also represent “autistic” kids. One common symptom with autism is being overwhelmed with incredibly loud noises. Her covering her ears constantly gave me those vibes. As someone with adhd and autism I mean this not as an ableist comment but just that I related to Dolores simply because of that. Maybe I am just projecting my own experience but my god I honestly just feel like this movie is disneys positive way of exposing toxic family households dealing with “issues” such as these.

@@pbj4142 Didn't he cut his own family out and hide away because he was afraid of them asking him what Mirabel's future was? I mean, he did say that, he saw the vision after being asked what her future was and then broke it and hid away. He didn't seem to care about how people saw him, he was just wanting to keep her safe because of how it would look to them if they saw the vision.

@@pbj4142 Right?! That was what I was saying while I was watching the movie!

THAT'S WHAT I SAID!! ITS NOT THAT MIRABEL DIDN'T GET A GIFT HER GIFT *WAS* THE WHOLE HOUSE! AND THAT'S WHY THE DOOR DISAPPEARED BECAUSE IT *FUSED* WITH THE HOUSE *Ahem* anyway-

Or Mirabel's gift is not just the embodiment of hope(as the video said) but also longevity 🤣 she will be the one to guide the next generations. She is now the "candle" and without her, there will be no more magic and no more Casita. I'm not saying she's immortal but I think she has the power to live longer than anyone else, but just like a candle, there is no forever.

I agree. And that time, Mirabel will teach her how to be a good leader.

@@itt3649 my theory in the beginning was that she was immortal, but she’d only figure out as an adult. she would grow to full size but then completely stop aging at like 25

@@zimbim7562 Ooooooo I like that idea

this makes more sense than the theory in the video in my opinion because how could Mirabel "fuel" the family when most were born before she was?

I thought maribel helping both Antonio and Bruno feel at ease was a thoughtful moment pushing past the negative side and helping them both see the positive side.

I watched it 8 times- for fun

Me too

I thought she was chosen to save the gift when it's time but what u said explain alot

​@@primedaddy5991 I believe u're right too. Mirabel was indeed chosen to save the magic. And Bruno's vision of Mirabel was a perfect example.

Not only that, but its foreshadowed when Maribel stand in front of the mural on the wall ...that she is the center.

Exactly, the needed a new foundation that was more individual and people didn’t have to be their gifts

This is the theory that we have in our family!!! She is the new foundation to lead the next generation

yes I agree. She is the new keeper of the flame, chosen by the Encanto to become Alma's true heir when the times comes.

Agreed. I figured the house destined her as the new matriarch

@@onlyadream223 Alma and Mirabel are the only two Madrigals who can speak with the house after all.

Fun fact: her name means wondrous

@@camilla4079 and miracles certainly are wondrous. Miracles are the impossible becoming reality. Wonder is usually the response to miracles, curiosity and confusion and amaze at something that is so.... impossible but so.... well, wonderful.

😘you

Yes! I noticed that too! Also I love how her cousin Camilo is the shapeshifter who is often associated with chameleons.

I think it’s because miracle bell she re summons the miracle

She is the candle. When mirabel touches her door the light of the candle started to flicker. The candle. Doesn't have any powers since then but it represents mirables emotional state. All of the magic changes infront of her. Luoisa told mirabel she wanted the pressure to be remove so she could finally relax. She started losing her powers and rest. Mirabel always see isabela as perfect and beautiful. But when isabela told her she doesn't want to be always perfect. A cactus appeared. Because mirabel realize isabela isn't perfect she allowed isabela to create something new. Bruno always gave the badnews to everyone. And doesn't wanna use his Power anymore. Mirabel forced him to see to the future. And for the longest time bruno. Finally saw a. Good news infront of him. Mirabel saving cassita. Antonio love animals and mirabel knew about it. Soo the powers he got is being able to talk to animals. Lastly the only reason the magic is gone is because. Mirabel doesn't believe in her family anymore. She accepted that compare to her family she is useless. And all the other powers are gone because the magic became more of a burden to each one of them rather than a gift. But she was the human form of miracle. She didn't get a door bcause she was already in her room. Her door is the front door. The only reason the magic became unstable was because she doesn't know that she has control over everyones power. She was raised believing she has no gift. Making the magic doubtful and flicker

@@rainierterucha8907 And the cracks disappeared since mirabel finally felt she was apart of the family

I thought something similar. I thought she isn't necessarily the candle, but the miracle itself, for similar reasons as you. The candle and the cracks always seem to be tied to her emotions and mental state. The cracks started patching up when Mirabel finally connected with her sister whom she's always fought and argued with, then immediately after that scene with Isabella, the cracks start coming again but bigger than ever because of Abuela telling Mirabel that she's hurting her family, and Mirabel's realization that she'll never be good enough for Abuela no matter what.

Abuela and Mirabel do mirror each other a lot, especially when it comes to gifts. If you think about it, Abuela is the one who gives everybody their gifts. She's waiting at the door each and every time. Mirabel walks Antonio to his door and is there with him as well. And as you said, he gets a gift that mirrors the gift Mirabel gave him. I do think Mirabel will be the next matriarch of the family, and it would make sense that she has the ability to give the gifts as well, even if she and Abuela aren't exactly aware that they are the ones who basically decide the gifts.

@@kellybechtel3803 agreed! In of itself, the gift is the miracle, abuela said it herself about Mirabel.

My thinking was more that Mirabel is abuela's counterpart (notice how their rooms are directly opposite each other) and the heir to the miracle. It seems that she would become the matriarch of the Madrigal family when abuela is gone.

Same, I thought her gift would be the successor to Abuela to keep the candle alive

And it would go in hand with the very end, when the family presents her with the new front doorknob-M, for Mirabel. And the casita comes to life when she accepts it. I love the idea that she’s being accepted as the new future matriarch of the clan and “owner” of the miracle.

The house helps everybody, but Abuella and Mirabelle specifically seem able to command it.

My exact thoughts!

Underrated comment

This must also be my gift 🤔

Right, like when she picks up her glasses from the air in the Surface Pressure song.

Lol true though

Fr... I just stepped on mine and broke them so I understand what a true gift that is

Yup! A gift would've defeated the purpose

@@austinjoseph2881 I'd agree if not for the fact that everyone else got their powers back the very next scene. if the point was that "you don't need to have a special talent to be loved and valued", why give everyone their powers back? Don't they not need those to be loved and valued?

@@angelousmortis8041 Personally, I think that's because in life we usually have some things we are better at (gardening, writing...), that might be seen as gifts or talents. Once they lost their "talents", they truly saw each other for who they were. So I think the purpose of keeping their powers in the end was to show that relatableness of having some gift that we are recognized for, but still being more than that. It does not truly define us. It's just a part of us, who are the miracles ourselves. It's a part of our magic. Just as Mirabel had the connection to the house, which could also be a way of mentioning empathy. She glued the family together by doing something as seemingly simple as that. That was a power she didn't lose, just as the entire family hadn't really lost their powers because they still had themselves. They still were. This movie truly is beautiful!

She IS the miracle. She IS the gift. That's why she didn't get a gift

@@angelousmortis8041 I agree that it takes away from the message a little, but at the same time a return to a facsimile of the status quo is what helps to mark the end of the conflict, and the story. It probably would have fit better if if they had changed the gifts, maybe made them a bit more subtle... But, on the other hand, the gifts are a part of the Madrigals, as much as their limbs. Losing them entirely would have undercut the happy ending, the idea that everything can be fixed in the end... Which is, of course, utterly untrue, but some lies are worth perpetuating.

So, if she dies, the madrigal family is f*cked?

@@veekgames7780 Yes, unless a Mirabel V.0.2 gets born.

@@sarah-zt8he Lol, it feels like Mirabel is just an object, that's sad🤣

I’d like to add to this! Abuela also says she asked Pedro for a miracle and he sent Mirabel. So yes, not only is she “the real gift” but she was literally the miracle that Abuela prayed to Pedro for. When I first watched the film, I saw Abuela and Mirabel as the carrier’s of the gift. Abuela performing the rite of gifts for each member of the family and Mirabel being the next to do so. Thereby they wouldn’t have powers of their own because their power was the ability to channel the magic out to the rest of the family.

Also...Mirabel sounds like MIRACLE just how Madrigal sounds like MAGICAL

Casita was cracking long before that, but Bruno tried to repair the cracks and hide them. The implication is that the cracks were going on for some time, at least as long as Bruno’s Disappearance since he was the first Madrigal rejected, then Mirabel, then Mirabel’s Sisters were burdened under Abuela’s and the encanto’s expectations (funnily enough no expectations seem to be placed on Antonio’s immediate family; but since their Gifts are far more chaotic than Mirabel’s Side I get the impression that nothing’s expected of them. Kinda ironic that Isabel takes out her frustrations on Mirabel instead of her cousins…except Abuela established Mirabel as an Approved Target.) But when Mirabel and then her sisters couldn’t take it anymore…that’s when the cracking accelerated exponentially, and spiking in earnest at every major fight between Abuela and Mirabel (as Mirabel’s Exclusion from the family portrait…was caused by how Abuela treated Mirabel for over a decade.)

@@anonymousfellow8879 I see, thank you for correcting me.

@@draganapetrovic3178 it’s a pretty subtle detail when Bruno shows up + Mirabel I think mentions it when she confronts Abuela about her tearing into Isabel (when Isabel is finally happy) but there’s a lot going in that scene especially that it’s super easy to miss But the biggest and most destructive cracks? Yeah those are caused by how Abuela treats Mirabel and essentially keeps her away from the rest of the family (including Mirabel’s sisters) and Mirabel finally having Enough

Well Antonio already had a connection with animals before that.

Yes

That’s a good point, I kind of always thought hers was the candle, as the candle started with her, and the candle is on her door.

I was thinking the same thing! Mainly because delores has a power to hear from a mile away but had no idea about the house falling apart and how vulnerable the power was even when abuela spoke to the candle about it at night with mirabel listening. She should have been the most suspicious of the cracks over anybody but somehow, she never heard her, only mirabel when her and her father found out. After that, I though either delores room is completely sound proofed and her bed inside is too far to hear anything because her room was large enough for it, or its abuela protecting herself from accidentally sharing her secrets, but mirabel being an extension of the candle, can cancel out that kind of protection because she is the gift itself, hence why she knew and was suspicious of what was going on the moment she saw the crack while everyone else besides bruno was oblivious to it, luisa only knew because she uses strength and carries the families burdens, which is why when the crack appeared, she felt herself getting weaker, while with almost everyone else, its not a matter if physical capabilities, but telekinetic abilities or hearing. Luisa uses her gifts constantly while everyone else, its either they dont feel that their hearing is becoming normal, or they dont use it as a constant thing.

They knew that the Casita is falling apart, it's just that they are very denial that the magic is not strong anymore...Luisa hinted that she felt weak on Antonio's party and that was exactly when mirable had first witnessed their Casita crumbling. Abuela was also asking for her late husband's guidance since she probably sensed that there is something wrong with their Casita.

@@Saliah834 Abuela started worrying about the power of the magic when Mirabel did not get a power, so she went into protective hyperdrive. When parents become over protective, it is often restrictive and causes more damage to the relationships. Aubela specifically said she was so worried about losing the miracle that she forgot what the miracle was for, to protect the family.

Bruno also said he would have left the Encanto but the mountain was too high, meaning Abuela did not want him to go and was still protective over him.

Wow

But Luisa didn’t evolve?

Nah her only power is being a licensed therapist

I saw this too!!! XD

Wow

lol

Tbh I'd actually see that as a hint towards something real. Like not literal music videos, but a representation of how Mirabel is seeing others and their true emotions, like she "sees" Alma's traumatic memory of the first miracle and her losing Pedro. Like she didn't literally see it, it's just a visual representation of her coming to a true understanding of it. It's in her name "mira", which means "look/see", the movie is about Mirabel seeing what's broken in her family and understanding them, until she finally can see herself

of course I should've looked at the comments first cause I just posted a comment close to this lol

AGH DISAGREE

She literally controlled Casita, made it do things for her, even Luisa had to move her things, she didn’t.

Not to help her in Bruno's tower though

No it’s not at the start the house moved by it’s own and mirabelle wasn’t alive

And not to mention Bruno's door shone again once more after Mirabel told him to use his power.

I wouldn't say that's quite the case. We see Isabella and Camilo both attempting to reach the candle, but their powers fail them and leave the two shocked and frozen. After saving them from a nasty fall, the casita only evacuates them because they realize they can't help Mirabel without their powers and so are no longer trying to reach the candle. Meanwhile Julieta is of course trying to stop Mirabel, so the casita does stop her. The casita is shown to not be all knowing about the magic, Mirabel asks what's happening and it basically shrugs. It likely also thought the candle needed to be saved and so tried to help everyone rushing to grab it, but then two of the three people trying to save it were stopped by the magic failing. While Mirabel does seem to have a deeper connection with the casita, it isn't like it only was going to let her grab the candle. What I do want to know is why it didn't dump the candle off the windowsil and just throw it at Mirabel

@General Codsworth i dont think they were going for the candle i think they were trying to save mirabel

@@generalcodsworth4417 i've contemplated this for a while now and I think I've got an explanation that makes sense. We know that casita can't manipulate anything inside the magical door rooms right? Well, the candle was in abuela's room.

@@patasdfghjkl2961 Well abuela's room wasnt magical either like the nursery all that was special about it compared to the nursery was the door glowed with her on it. Since she didnt have powers the room wouldnt be an interpretation of her gift and is most likely a normal room. but perhaps since the candle is basicly the source of its magic that it didnt toss the candle to her because it could go out if mirabel failed to catch it and hit the ground or that the house was unable to move the candle simply because it is the source and there is something preventing the house from interacting with the candle in any way.

something I haven’t seen anyone else mention yet is the significance of the candle dying in mirabel’s hands, I think it needed to happen that way

Listen to the official audio book. At the end they say that mirabels gift is “the gift of holding the family together”

What a crappy room to have a big hole In the middle (it's a joke)

My house my rules

Do you mean Bruno cause Pedro is the grandpa who sacrificed himself to save the grandma

Im pretty sure the whole family is on the door not just mirabel

When I watched it I said mirabel got the gift of “therapist”

I still wonder if she got her own room or if she's gonna be babysitting kids forever in the nursery. Her room could be a butterfly haven or something idk. Nothing crazy like the other rooms but still butterfly themed

Mirbelle*

Have you ever noticed about the main entrance of the door at the end it had butterflies around it. This also points out that Mirabel has the gift of hope which brings the family together.

I didn't know it was her door I thought it was the whole families.

Oh noooo! And what if Pedro wasn't dead, but dying and heard Alma scream. Throwing the last of his conciousness toward her.

Good theory! I thought the casita was Pedro too! I did catch the Pedro portraits.

THATS WHAT MY SISTER SAID 😳

Im not crying your crying!! 😭😭😭

The "edit" did it for me. I know agree comoletely with that theory

Inanimate objects that are alive and that have caring personalities is, for some reason, just very endearing. I can see why people love it so much, and why it's such a reoccurring, yet subtle thing across so many stories.

@@NighttimeDaydreams that is absolutely true! if magic is real i would really REALLY like a casita😘💛✨

@@yellowprxmroses987 me: Casita, do my homework, chores, etc, and let me watch TV.

Both hold energy - the sea and homes

@@ITZ.URGIRLNIMA this comment gives me alexa vibes

I like this explanation.

Interesting

Her name is Mirabel. Not Maribell.

@@cupcakebakery8820 yes and.... the fact you knew who I was talking about makes not a huge deal.

@@kesna8 actually it is a “big deal”

I agree she was made to be the caretaker of the casita and her family.

I have watched it but I’m so behind on the characters names... WHO IS CASITA??

@@Mercury448 the house

I agree. My theory is that her door dissolved not because she didn't have magic, but it just means the house is her room.

My husband said that after the very first time of watching it. We definitely agree that was clearly her gift.

I was immediately reminded of Cecelia in the Castle Glower series 😂

Me and my mom where thinking the exact same thing while we watched it lmao!

This was my interpretation too. That, and because Casita is only seen moving magically for two people: Abuela and Mirabella. When Abuela tells Casita to move the chairs, the house listens. It also helps Mirabel set the table, makes music with her, and follows her requests to get to the candle when it's crumbling. The house doesn't listen to anyone else in the movie; it pushes Mirabel's parents out even as they try to protect her as the walls collapse around her, but it doesn't stop Mirabel from trying to get the candle. I think in that scene, the house was listening to Mirabel's commands to get her family to safety and help her get the candle. When the door disappears during her gift day, I think that's the moment where the house gives her powers over the home. The door is vanishing because her "space" isn't just one room; the entire house is her sanctuary.

And to add to this, when Mirabel touched the candle at her own ceremony the candle went out for a sec, that's when the candle basically said she is me and I'am her, saying that they don't need me anymore because they have Maribel.

Thank you! This really helped.

yep!!!! I agree and I love your evidence!

I agree when she gave antonio his animal he became able to talk to animals

I 100% agree and had been telling my family the same thing haha Same evidence Great minds.

Can't agree more. When Casita was falling apart, she only responded to Mirable's will. Mirable wanted to grab the candle but all of her family out in safety, so Casita didn't help any of them reaching the candle but Mirable, instead forcing them out and protected Mirable.

Everybody is thinking the same idea lol.

When Mirabel walked towards the door, she was wiping her hands off of her clothes after touching the candle, another clue

I love this! It didn't vanish, it's that the house door is her door. :)

It's called empathy, that's what they said was Mirabel's 'gift', it was always there and never had to be earned.

She’s also the only one with glasses

@@sup_a4097 actually her father also has glasses but Mirabel was the only one like how the commentor said she’s the only one that sees their doubts

Disagree, wrong theme, each of the three pairs of family in the movie have an arching theme. The triplets are past (healing, rewinding wounds) present (the weather) and future. Dolores is hearing, camillo is sight, Antonio is speech. Luisa is brawn, Isabella is beauty, Mirabelle is Brains.

@@peachycamy7582 right! And “mira” means to watch or see in spanish

agreed

mirabel had the gift of time control

Despair rules eternal!hope is way too overated

@@landocross4083 she was refelcting, in her own little world as the party went on because the day pained her,

@@4ng3l35.x i know i was jokin

That is actually possible 🙂

YESSSS I actually thought that the reason why she never got her powers was because the touched herself first and THEN the door, meaning maybe the candle gave the own powers to her as the embodiment of the candle as it also reflects on her emotions!!! YOU ARE A GENIUS!!

That is possible since when after Antonio's door is completely physically created, his gift came out.

Yes Bruno also said in another scene that the first time he had the vision, he saw how Mirabels future was uncertain and it was still changeable or something in this direction so this would fit

That’s what I’m saying

She was also meant to take abuelas place. Both her and abuela are direct ties to the fate of the magic in the family

My theory is because mirabel wiped her hands on her dress before using the door and the magic was wiped off

wait mate WHAT'S THIS PFP

@@maexslg-at That's what I thought too.

Male naevis????? I'm dead, he's so gorgeous

Her mood doesn’t really affect it as when she tried to show the cracks on the party they had mended(which seems to be that when members of the family are willing to suffer the dysfunction that Abuela imposes the cracks are temporarily patched/hidden, such as on the party and Bruno mending the ones in the foundation. Mirabel having her fight with Abuela exposed all the cracks and the house was already beyond repair exactly because the family had to be rebuilt at that point). The reason Mirabel didn’t receive a room and gift was due to the pep talk given by Abuela that was setting her to become a tool which was unsustainable to the miracle(many having saturated the miracle with such unhealthy attitudes), with Mirabel not carrying true hope or determination into the endeavor, only duty(even if willingly) and it worked on Antonio cause he wasn’t put the same weight(we never see him working but just enjoying his gift). I wonder that now that she truly wishes to live for her family out of joy that it is what interests and drives her unlike a matter of duty and worth will make a room of her own appear on her birthday as it did jumpstart Casita back and Abuela has her own for no reason.

PURRRR BESTIE

I saw all those things but it’s only tide at all in together once the front door was done with her with The most outlined spot. That was clear that the whole house is hers.

Guys get out of my room

The Casita doesn’t help her with Bruno though

@@Andyatl2002 I think its either because the Casita wanted Mirabel to do it on her own OR Casita doesn't have any power in the family members rooms because it's their own "realm". But if you notice the Casita can still interact with Mirabel in her room. And like some people said the whole house could be her "room" since the front door has her but also the whole family.

"it might even be part of Abuela's power to help bestow the powers onto each family members as they come of age." this also makes Antonio asking for Mirabel to lead him by his hand during the ceremony, a beautiful bridge for her to futurely be the one taking over this exact role that abuela has

@@phae_c I was thinking something similar. I wonder if Antonio would have even gotten his power off Mirabel hadn't been there 🤷

@@collinallen9730 ooh that's an interesting theory. Maybe a secondary reason for Mirabel not getting a door was bcos abuela wasn't doing the job of passing down the magic properly. She'd started to focus on the wrong things, meaning she couldn't have given a gift to Mirabel, leading to the casita taking matters into its own hands and granting that power to Mirabel instead. This kind of explains what Abuela means when she and Mirabel are talking by the pool, and she blames herself for Mirabel not having a gift. I think all along she knew it was her fault subconsciously and was in denial. It was only after she admitted this to herself and went back to where pedro died and got closure that she was finally able to move on from the toxic person she used to be, and reconnect with the magic. I really love how there was no one villain of that movie and everyone got a redemption arc, it was really nice :)

Then was Abuela or Mirabel that ordered Casita to be a electric treadmil to Luisa at the beginning of the movie?

@@bluedarkdarklin2552 I think Casita has it's own initiative in things and was wanting to be helpful. I might be wrong or thinking too much into it, but there's only 2 times in the entire movie that Casita was given an order 1st-Abuela 2nd-Mirabel.

Actually the butterflies are also a nod to García Márquez’. A famous Colombian author

@@emberbirdnerd Why not both?

@@LeilaAMMartin yeah I only knew the Gabo reference for the butterflies but Allison’s explanation makes it even better! I have the feeling that they (the creators) probably knew they would include the yellow butterflies anyway and then someone pointed out the hope meaning and they gave them more importance 😄

I thought the butterfly was the grandfather

@@BelArtist in the book '100 Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Yellow butterflies symbolized infinite love and hope. Marquez might have drawn that symbology from the tale of Pandora's box, perhaps, but the movie 1000% took inspiration from his book. Yellow butterflies became a major part of Colombian culture specifically because of '100 Year's of Solitude',

And knowing what was going to happen didn't mean he caused it. He was giving warnings, not cursing people

Yes

The very fact he did not turn evil considering how he was shunned and feared by his friends, family and community, especially his own mother, tells me he is actually the best of all of them. He is so good that even when vilified and having to live in the darkness to stay close to his family, he does not turn to darkness himself. THEY EVEN MADE A DAMN SONG ABOUT IT!

What confuses me is that they refuse to talk abt him after he left- then when he comes back it’s like nothing happened?

And it was pretty unfair they were singing a whole song about bad things of him. (Also in we don’t talk about Bruno the song it was only Dolores that didn’t say anything bad about him because she can hear him and she knows Bruno isn’t a bad person😏)

I actually loved that! At first I didn't really noticed that kind of detail Disney added! I guess the moral is you don't have to fit in, you can stand out. Also the moral to this movie is, whatever gift you have, don't let that bring you down. I mean look at Isabel for instance, at first she seems like those characters who thought they are perfect, but they are, she is doing that to impress Abeula and her family. Honestly she is probably one of my favourite characters!

When she was getting her powers she wipes her hands on herself before touching the door. The candles powers went into her. That's why when she admits she's not ok the house cracks.

And why she didn't get a door

Love this!

Yeah, I noticed that too!

@ThatAriesBloke yeah that makes sense, just like at the beginning: her door disappearing seemed to me to show that the entire house was her special place. (Which was reinforced at the end) She didn't need a specific room because of that. I love this movie!

But there is a scene where abuela also commands the furniture when Mirabela tries to speak with Luisa on the table and abuela gets annoyed.

That's why I believe Mirabel's gift is to be the one leading the family - that's what abuela's been doing but because she had forgotten the point of the encanto Mirabel was gifted with leading the family. She does so by helping first her sisters and then by confronting abuela.

@@talvikki0 but like the comment said, Mirabel is the only one that doesn't just command it to do stuff

Casita*

I agree. I immediately thought that communication and emotional intelligence was her "gift".

that’s a shitty gift, like its not magic in nature just a common skill

@@OblivionNova479 hey, not everyone is able to comfort people

@@OblivionNova479 what’s the point of having magic if you’re a shitty person, especially in a family setting like yeah it’s cool that they all have their own special magic powers but at the end of the day for a family to survive you need communication, love, and hope and they would’ve lost their powers at the end anyway if it wasn’t for Mirabel‘s emotional intelligence noticing the problem and how to fix it. So in the end, magic didn’t even help the problem, a normal person did

@@frankmendez7142 what's a point with impressing the family and pretending to be something they're not then? That is completely pointless if you ask me. Bad person or not, they shouldn't be keeping the family happy when they're not happy themselves.

Exactly. When that kid jokingly said that maybe her gift was denial, he was right. Mirabel's gift was that she was denied a "gift", enabling her to see clearly what was really going on in the family.

The "gifts" are metaphores for inter-generational trauma and how it manifests. Luisa was "Burden." Bruno was "Blame." (Like Bart, on The Simpsons.) Blame allows a family to direct their attention to some sacrificial individual so that they don't have to deal with their actual dysfunction. And especially blame gets directed to someone who sees what's going on, as Bruno did. Pepa, with the ever-changing weather, is emotional dysregulation. etc. Camilo is a shapeshifter. Someone who can blend into different situations by sacrificing his own identity. Hypervigilance "Hearing everything" is a trauma response. Patrick Stewart talks about being very attuned to situations as a child because of his abusive father. Or being 'perfect' in order to validate the family. (Like Isabela or Lisa, on the Simpsons.) Trauma alters people's responses to food. There are people who eat because of trauma. And there are people who express love to their children with food as well, especially those who have been through starvation themselves. Many Chinese families with parents who went through famine talk about food being used to express love. Amy Tan recounts something similar in The Joy Luck Club. Mirabel is like Maggie from the Simpsons. The Simpsons was also modeled on a dysfunctional family. She's the 'baby' who isn't able to grow up and lives in the kids room even after she's a young adult. So yes, the 'gifts' aren't really gifts at all. They're trauma.

How long did you take to write that?

@@ryanwise50 why reference The Simpsons??

@@raspberrylily7091 1.The Simpsons were modeled on an archetypal dysfunctional family. 2. Lots of people are familiar with The Simpsons.

Yes, she could see "under the surface" what was really needed. That's her magic power. Then she had desire to help that person GET what they really needed/wanted.

That would be bruno

@@samthefunnyman3944 Bruno had foresight.

Simple and Sweet, great explanation.

That’s why she’s wearing glasses. She’s the only female main character in a disney movie that wears glasses. That meant something.