I believe Mirabel IS the gift. Plus, the fact that she did indeed get her own door at the end. She was in the center of the whole family as it showed on her door which clearly says that she's destined to lead the family when the time comes. I watched the movie 3 times to finally understand everything
I felt that her gift was pretty clear in the movie, she was the only person in the family that had a relationship with Casita, everyone lived there, but she seemed to have more control over it, being able to use Casita as an extension of herself in multiple situations. I felt like she was the next chosen Matriarch.
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.
Mirabel's gift was pretty clear even from the start of the movie. She's the next Matriarch. She prepared Antonio for his ceremony like Abuela did for her, at the end of the movie she waves at Casita like Abuela did when Abuela first greeted Casita, her door was the front of the house with her in the middle of the family and she guided each of her family members to better things, therefore, strengthening their characters. She is the gift for sure.
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.
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.
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.
At the end of the movie my take on it was similar, that Mirabel became the next Abuela and that Casita chose her to lead the family once Abuela passed on. She was given the gift of leadership, which worked so well with her naturally hopeful disposition that there really wasn't a change. Mirabel acts like a leader for the family in how she sees what's wrong and takes charge fixing it. She is the matriarch that Abuela should have been. In the future, when Mirabel nears the end of her days, there will likely be another child who 'doesn't get a gift' but this time they will know what it means.
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.
@@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
I feel like some people missed the symbolism of the line: “Look at this home We need a new foundation” The old regime of how Abuela ran things had to be torn down to make way for a new way of running the family. I felt like maribel’s gift was to become the new matriarch of the family. She was seen nurturing and helping each family member discover their true worth.
Also supporting your connection between Mirabel's outfit and the butterfly on the candle, we see Abuela and Mirabel surrounded by butterflies at the exact moments when Dos Oruguitas changes to Dos Mariposas. Two butterflies - two matriarchs. Mirabel is the next matriarch. Her gift was everything - la Casita, the family, the candle - all of it. She isn't given a room in the house because she is given the entire house, which we see evidenced by her door being the front door at the end of the movie.
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.
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.
@@katcrooks7308 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.
This would also explain why Mirabel's door disappeared. Everyone's room was made to be specialized for their gifts, but if Mirabel is the gift itself, her "room" would be the entire Casita.
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.
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.
I think Mirabel *is* the candle, at least symbolically. The candle's brightness and the cracks in the casita always mirror Mirabel's state. Also, Antonio receives a gift that matches Mirabel's gift to him (the jaguar stuffed animal and Antonio's jaguar companion). At her ceremony, Mirabel's outfit visually echoes the candle (gold butterflies on a white dress). Abuela says that Pedro sent her Mirabel, and we know that his sacrifice also created the candle. The candle created the mountains, the living casita, and gives the gifts. Mirabel gives Antonio his gift, reshapes the mountains around the encanto, and revives the house and magic. The candle burns out in the climax only when Mirabel is in her lowest emotional state. It even explains why the door disappeared. Casita made the door to prepare for the gift the candle would give Mirabel. Then Mirabel became the candle, which has no room of its own. Being the candle would also require Mirabel to bond with the family members before they received their gifts, so she stays in the nursery. She gave Antonio the jaguar toy and then walked him to the door, and Antonio's gift wound up matching Mirabel's intuition of him perfectly. Also, if Mirabel is the candle and Abuela is the candle's keeper, it makes perfect sense that the magic starts to fail when Abuela begins to mistreat her as a 5-year-old, gets worse when she feels like she isn't part of the family, and completely implode when Abuela yells at her that she caused all of the problems in the family.
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
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.
Mirabel’s lack of a gift was meant as a wake up call to Abuela. The Miracle was trying to test her by presenting her with a child who lacked a power. Abuela needed to learn to see her family as people and not as tools, so she was given a child who was not useful to her as a tool.
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.
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.
At first It seemed as Bruno’s vision was about embracing Isabella but, I realized the vision was about the family EMBRACING MIRABEL. Notice how Isabella embraced Mirabel, casitas cracks were reversing and the candle got brighter. At the end when the whole family embraced her…Casita came back and everyone got their powers.
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...
I also love how Mirabel is the only one who actively communicates with Casita during the whole movie. She feels like the home is part of the family, but the rest of the family basically ignores the Casita.
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.
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-
Being the source of the power she is able to sense the “disturbance in the force” within each family member. The songs were therapy sessions and with each break through their gifts evolved.
When she opens the door to the repaired home, it suddenly lights up and glows like the magic gift doors. It seems implied that Mirabel's door wasn't a bedroom, it was to the entire Casita, which reignited her family's powers, without a new candle, thus her gift was always the living source of their power.
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.
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.
Lemme save y’all 12 minutes: Mirabel’s gift is better communication with the house, being the source of the candle, and hope. Mentally though, the gift is just support and existing.
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.
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
When I watched the movie I felt that Maribel was the gift to her family, she understood all of their struggles and tried to help them to be the best version of themselves and as they were falling apart she brought them back together. I also felt like for the most part the was the main one that interacted with Casita verbally, so I thought it was fitting that the main doorway of the house ended up being her door in the end.
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
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.
Did anyone else notice that when casita was falling apart, everyone was basically thrown out by casita except Maribel? Instead Casita helped her to get to the candle
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.
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.
Mirabel's outfit has more than just butterflies, it has EVERYONE'S symbols! It has the candle, flowers, it has rain drops, it has sound waves, it has herbs, it has a jaguar and a macaw, and it has a strong fist raising a dumbbell to the sky.
Okay but also Bruno says at the end “you’re the real gift kid, now let us in” FURTHER proving that she is an extension of the candle and just how in the beginning the candle made the house and lead Abuela and the kids in. Now Mirabel is an extension of the candle letting everyone in again and thus brings the Casita back to life when she opens the door.
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.
Now I notice that according to this theory of the “embodiment”, when infant Mirabel comes to the door to get her gift, the door “vanishes”…I think the door didn’t vanish, the power of Casita passed on to Mirabel when she touched it. And it totally makes sense with the whole theory and the fact that Mirabel holds a very special relationship with Casita.
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.
Pedro was Casita. His spirit took hold of the candle and became Casita, hence his picture falling so dramatically as soon as the house began to crumble. The cracks started when Mirabel, the key, voiced her pain, as the house itself and its spirit of her grandfather were hurt by Mirabel's dismissal, and Abuelas abuse of the gift she was given and how this impacted her loved ones.
@@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.
Mirabell has also the Gift of sight. She SEES her family, each member and helps them to find their voice of (self)doubt to finally surpass that with the help of the others. She is the one who gets told what bothers them and that they are not alone. She's the one who listens and hears them out. She is the best embodiment of what a familymember should do for one another.
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.
Mirabel's gift is not just hope, it's the ability to see and value people for who they really are. That's what she does for everyone in the family, and that's why she causes so much disruption, because she sets people free to be their real selves, which messes up the controlling, perfectionist dynamic Abuela has unwittingly set up. So the family sees her as dangerous but in fact she's fixing things, not breaking them. It's a super interesting story in a lot of ways.
I always thought that Merabel's gift was "ownership of the miracle", a Matriarch. She didn't get a room to fit her gift, because, her "room" was the entire Casita. The cracks only show up when Merabel is heartbroken or scared. BUT, the casita had been cracking on the inside for years. Casita is Merabel.
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.
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.
I just love the scene where casita doesn't let anyone get to the candle and helps Mirabel get to it. Casita throws everyone out and protects her when she can't get out in time, almost as if she is part of the house and that she needed to stay behind when the house fell completely.
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
@@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.
If I’m being honest I’m glad that Mirabel didn’t get a gift in the end, I feel it’s a fitting ending for the movie, showing that you don’t need to have a special talent to be loved and valued.
@@Rackstack234 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!
@@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.
I felt Mirabel’s gift also had to do with her obvious talent, embroidery. She was the thread that kept the family together. Abuelo Pedro was the embodiment of the candle and he burned brightly when the family felt their unity breaking. In the end Pedro became the butterflies when the family found that they could do more when they worked together with or without magic.
I believe her gift since she " didn't get one " when her door disappeared, was that she could communicate with the house. She seems to be the one to understand Casita the best, which is why she's the one who talks to Casita the most.
Mirabel's gift is that nothing bad ever happens to her glasses Edit: As someone who wears glasses I envy that power Edit 2: Omg!!1!1! Thanks for likes! But really, first comment on a video I've made in a long time and 4k likes? Dang, you people sure are swell.
She also gave Antonio a animal toy and later he began talking to animals after receiving his gift. Also Casita started cracking hearing after Mirabel's song.
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.)
@@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
I think that Mirabel's gift is in getting people to communicate - especially via the fantastic and impossible song and dance numbers. Luisa didn't want to talk about how she felt, but she sang about it ONLY with Mirabel. No one wanted to talk about Bruno, but they sang about it with Mirabel. Bruno wanted to hide away, but he couldn't resist Mirabel. Mirabel even got her own song singing about what she was hiding even from herself.
NO, she got magic. At the end the door lights up for her, so that shows she did have a gift. It was a strong connection to casita and the family in a way no one else had. It's not as flashy, but she was the glue holding everyone together and helping everyone grow and be themselves. She's the future matriarch of the family, and leader of the village.
You notice casita only followed orders/direction from two people. Abuela and Maribell. Obviously Maribell is the next matriarch of the family and keeper of the magic. That's why she didn't get a gift. And since the miracle is still in it's infancy they wouldn't know this. So I wonder now if every other generation a child gets chosen by the magic to be the next matriarch by not receiving a gift.
Something else to consider is Mirabel's relationship to the house, that goes back at least to the day she was supposed to get her gift. She is the only one who names the house and speaks to it like a person. In return, the house literally bends to serve her. This might suggest that the disappearing door didn't disappear at all. It was always the front door. The entire house is her room.
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.
@@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.
I like this theory and it makes sense. It actually does look like she is more in touch with Casita than all the others and she is the hope they all need when things get rough. She was able to help Antonio on his day and she gave Bruno hope to see a good vision.
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 almost immediately asked what the grandmother's power was during the intro song and since she didn't have one, said "I bet Mirabel's the next matriarch." And when we see all the extra interaction between the house and her (it just seemed affectionate), "The house totally chose her. She doesn't need extra powers when she's got the house." And when the kid gets his animal room and it became apparent that the power was representative of what was important to them/a reflection of who they were, I said "Oh, she's definitely getting the house, because the house holds the family and family is what Mirabel holds most dear." Lol. Great movie.
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.
One of the most amusing lines is when the village kid says, "Maybe your gift is denial." 🤣 But it's very telling. Mirabel wasn't living in denial. She was living in hope, but skeptics would call it denial. We need people like Mirabel who hope against all hope.
Actually, Abuela's powers are protection. She got her powers through the prayer and the candle's first light. She raised the mountains that protects them! She's very protective, over protective actually... and her dress has mountains on them! :3 So she is the protector and that's why she herself has a door. If she didn't have a power, she wouldn't have the door. She protects her family, the village and the candle.
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.
I really thought her gift was social skills. The way she comforted people and the child asked her to come with him. And how she could make people feel better even when it's tough in the movie etc...
I love this theory. Someone else may have also added this to the comments already, but I think further proof is seen in Mirabel's interactions with Antonio. She literally gives him a gift that she made, one that is directly reflected in his magical Gift. Antonio in turn, in a moment of childlike insight, knew that he needed Mirabel in order to succeed in his ceremony. Gosh, I love this movie.
BUT at the same time she did say "i know your an animal guy and i made you this so, when you move into your cool, new room you always have something to snuggle with" IMPLYING even before his gift he has had a bond with animals and has always liked or connected with them.
@@kcdoneyhue4671 I think it's both, Mirabel's power isn't to bestow powers onto her family members, but to see inside them to their true selves and encourage them to express themselves in the ways that they want to. In doing so she helps them to find a path when they feel lost. There's even a lyric in Isabella's song where she says something about Mirabel helping her to see the way forward when she couldn't before (right at the end before they hug). So Antonio was worried bcos he was feeling a LOT of pressure to have a gift, and it was Mirabel who helped him forget all that worry and focus on the things he loved which in turn helped him "realise" what his gift was supposed to be.
I read this comment somewhere and it was hilarious: “Mirabel’s gift is to turn people’s emotions and feelings into full fledge fantastic 3D music videos”
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
Mirabel's gift is controlling the house and everyone's gifts. When she's happy everything is okay but when she's sad the house cracks and their gifts are affected. In the end when she was utterly hopeless, the house crumbled and they all lost their gifts. It all depends on how she feels. She's a gift herself.
Mirabel is like the family glue, a listener, a peacemaker, one with a kind heart, indeed she was the gift herself as one in the comments said ^^... At the end of the day, it is not the gift that defines one person but their heart♥
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.
When she touched the candle, she didn’t touch the door. She touched **HERSELF!** Maybe she accidentally got her own magic, just not from the door. She could’ve changed her destiny from having a gift, to making the gifts POSSIBLE. She also held the candle in its last moments!
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!!
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
I think that Abuela's power was literally a 'head of the household' type of power. We see Casita respond to her commands throughout the movie, especially in the scene where Casita moves Mirabel to the other end of the table at Abuela's command. I also think that Mirabel inherited that same power bc she's the only other character that Casita seems to respond to directly, even helping her get dressed in the mornings. The reason she didn't get her own door is bc she is meant to inherit Abuela's room and take her place as the head of the house when that time comes. It might even be part of Abuela's power to help bestow the powers onto each family members as they come of age.
"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
@@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 :)
@@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.
Great video. I feel like it also explains why when Casita came back to life once Mirabel added her door knob, the candle itself did not reappear, but instead on the door it shows Mirabel with the candle. She was truly the embodiment of the magic, her family and Casita itself.
Can we also acknowledge the fact that Disney noticed how much people loved the ocean in Moana as an amazing character, said "Hold my Cerveza," and made Casita
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.
Mirabel internalized the candle at her gift ceremony. She holds it, then wipes her hands on herself before reaching for the door knob. Mirabel's clothes have symbols for everyone in her family. She is the center. She is a bridge from the past to the future. There are many bridge images throughout the story. She also projects Antonio's gift in the decorations she made on the box, plus the jaguar.
I'm glad you brought that up--about Maribel internalizing the candle. Another thing I noticed about that scene was that the colors of Maribel's dress plus the "gold-like" butterflies on her collar at her gift ceremony as a child are the same colors of the candle. Thus connecting Maribel to the candle.
I have a theory... Mirabel received a gift when she came of age. She is able to adapt/influence the gifts of those in her family. She doesn't have a door because she needs to live in the nursery with the children before they come of age in order to assign a gift that suits them for who they truly are. Evidence- Antonio - Mirabel makes and gifts Antonio a stuffed jaguar and tells him "he's an animal guy" right before he received the gift of being able to talk to animals. Luisa - After "Surface Pressure" when it becomes clear to Mirabel that Luisa is struggling under the weight of expectation surrounding her strength she hugs Louisa and says "I think you're carrying way too much". The next time we see Luisa, she isn't able to carry anything, she has lost her strength Isabel - After Isabel admits she doesn't want to marry and that she's only doing it for the family, Mirabel comes to the realisation that she is not the "perfect golden child" that Mirabel thought she was and instantly, Isabel is able to create plants that she's never made before, things that are more representative of how she feels inside and not just what people expect. If Mirabel's gift is to assign/influence the gifts of those in the family, it makes sense that whenever Mirabel feels like she isn't part of the family the magic fades. (When they leave her out of the photo, when she sees Bruno's prophecy, when her and abuela argue) This theory also makes sense of the duality surrounding Bruno's vision, as part of the family, Mirabel can keep the gifts and the magic strong, if the family reject her, the magic will go with her. That was a bit of an essay but I can't find anyone saying the same thing!
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.
I also remember Mirabel saying to Antonio that he was an animal guy when she gave him his birthday gift of the stuffed jaguar (the gift box was even decorated with the animals that he would eventually have as his friends). Then Casita responded and gave Antonio the gift of the ability to communicate with animals. Yet another sign that her gift was the embodiment of the magic within Casita as well as the candle itself. Pretty awesome to think about. Great video! This confirmed my suspicions as well.
She meant that he likes animals, and that animals are on the paper is most likely just Disney doing it for fun or foreshadowing. Antonio probably got the gift “talking to animals” cuz he likes animals, and someone said that Antonio can talk to animals so he has someone to talk to or smut like that
I really feel for Bruno. His situation was the classic "conflate the prophecy for the cause" trope. All he did was tell people what was going to happen. It's not his fault if it was good or bad.
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!
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 believe that Mirabel is the most gifted as she’s kind of the heart of the home and family and will take over as the Matriarch of the family after her Abuela. She seems to have more of a control over Casita. She is the connection between the family and La Casita.
It's also very symbolic and interesting that in the final song Bruno himself sings: "You are the real gift, kid, let us in" as Mirabel is about to place the new doorknob therefore assuming her place as the next Matriarch of the Madrigal's. The new main door shows a drawing with all the Madrigals with Mirabel at the center holding the candle!
You can't fill a cup that's already full. It seemed to me that, while Mirabel was always filled with hope for her family, the future, and the like - she's always had a superpower. She continuously felt like she had no part in her family - but she was literally the ONLY person anyone was able to speak to about their insecurities. It was almost a compulsion. Her little cousin and the ceremony, Louisa and her strength, Isabela and the way people perceive her and what she wants, Bruno and his confession as to why he left, her Abuela and the story of how it all came to be. Her power was to bring out the inner shames of everyone and turn it into something more. It helped Bruno use his Sight, gave Louisa a support system, and freed Isabela and Abuela from their respective cages (the need of perfection and fear of losing everything). Mirabel made her family stronger from the start, even though nobody was able to see it.
I’ve noticed that butterflies seem to be a big theme in this movie, the house has butterfly prints and tiles and Mirabel has them decorated all over her. They seem to be her symbol and may also be a sort of connection to the house. What’s also interesting is in the Greek myth of Pandora’s box, after all of the world’s evil leaves the box what flies out last is a butterfly named hope. I think that Mirabel is like that butterfly, the hope in the family during their dark times, and that is her gift.
@@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 😄
@@MariaSolvesProblems 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',
I agree that she was the embodiment of the candle. This is why her door was the front door of casita. She embodied all the doors/gifts and had access to them all. Stars don’t shine they burn. She was indeed the flame 🔥 that kept the miracle alive. Great movie!
Also, I noticed that during her door ceremony, Mirabel touches the candle, then herself and THEN the door which disappears because the whole Casita is her door. Just as you said… she IS the gift.
There was one massive clue that was missed. Mirabel was the only member of the family that could "command" the casita! Every other member of the family had the home react to their needs, but only Mirabel was able to actually intentionally control it, we see this with her request at the very beginning of the film to have the home provide percussion in the form of the drawers, doors and floors which reacted to her song as if it were an extension of her will. We see it again later when the casita began to crumble, while it reacted in a protective way to get the rest of the family to safety it continued to follow Mirabel's direction and intention to get to the candle and continued to do so, even protecting her and the candle until every iota of magic was drained, and she was safe. In fact, the only time the casita failed to follow her command was when she was in the hollows between the walls with Bruno, but that may have had more to do with them simply being inside the walls and the casita being unable to fully move without potentially damaging the family, as noted with the wall expansion that caused Peppa to be thrown in her chair etc. Little things like that and the incredible familiarity with how the home works and contorts around Mirabel compared to every other family member leads me to believe that this bond is much greater than even the one Abuela has with the family home.
@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!
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.
I can see her possessing the gift of leadership; she has the brains, she communicates, listens and empowers everyone. She was able to witness _almost_ everyone’s confessions about how they felt abt all the burdens/pressure they have to endure just to honor the Madrigal name (ex. Luisa and Isabela) and Mirabel understood and acknowledged that. She’s a fresh new start for a next gen leader to look after the Madrigal household and she’s eligible to be one.
I noticed In the scene where the younger version of her grandmother sees her future husband for the first time and their eyes meet, a gold monarch butterfly is flying by above them.
I think Mirabel‘s emotional state reflects the casitas’ state. because the first time we see A crack in the casita she says that she’s waiting for a miracle which means that the casita is waiting for a miracle and the Casita is in a state where it doesn’t have the miracle yet. and things like this happen throughout the movie
Mirabell's emotional state is reflected in the candles and Casita because they have a strong mental connection. So Mirabell was candle number two. In the film's finale, she absorbed all the rest of the magic in her from the candle. This is probably why she later gave Cisita life and magic.
I saw a theory somewhere that casita is the 'reincarnation' of Abuela's late husband Pedro. The family was given a miracle right after Pedro died by the river, also worth noting that when casita started to break, it'd sometimes pan to Pedro's portrait. It never left my mind since then. EDIT: Also, the first time Alma (Abuela) met Pedro, he waved hello at her. Same as how casita also waved at Alma and the triplets when it appeared in front of them.
there’s too many theories, but they all include -Mirabel’s empathy towards the other family members -Mirabel’s connection (and communication) with the Casita -Mirabel’s door being the entrance and her “room” being the Casita -Mirabel’s mood affecting the Candle and the Casita’s conditions -Pedro being the Candle and/or the Casita -Abuela getting her own door for some reason?
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.
When I first saw the movie I knew immediately that she had a connection, and that in a sense she was the light giving life to the gifts,a human version of the candle if you will, or the bridge that keeps everything connected. When she had finally lost her composure, and snapped at her grandmother,that's when everything literally fell apart. She was a representation for those whom felt outcasted because of them thinking they aren't special or seen to those in their family. I read like a writer and watch movies like one too, I had also guessed,that bruno's visions didn't give the full picture and I was right! I love,love,love this movie and I'm an 25 year old!
I do prefer the idea that Mirabel is still without a gift. Because _that_ makes her special, in a family of magical people, she is the most unique. And she is able to bring her family together in the end and heal the long lasting scars that come with expectation and the family's name and reputation it and all of its members needed to uphold. It tells those of us who feel like they don't fit in that it's okay that we're different. The people who love us most will accept us as we are. A very important message for those of us who feel like we're lesser or don't measure up to our family members' achievements or strengths and abilities. We don't need any special powers, because we're already good enough for the people who love us. Her 'gift' in this theory basically supports the same idea, though, to be fair.
also, another thing i've noticed that really confirms the fact that Mirabel is an embodiment of the family's gift is Antonio's gift ceremony. The few gift ceremonies we've seen in the movie show the kid about to receive a gift touching the candle before going to open their door, so I think touching the candle in an important part of the whole process. During Antonio's ceremony, he is so nervous he asks Mirabel to hold his hand and to stay with him all the way to his door. You could even say she's guiding him to his door. I think it was sort of a transition between the candle and Mirabel. Now that the candle has died, and I don't think a new one was created at the end of the movie, it would make sense that during every new gift ceremony, Mirabel would be the one guiding the kid to their door, because she has now replaced the candle as the embodiment of the family Madrigal's miracle.
I sort of thought it was foreshadowing as well because Mirabel gave Antonio a tiger stuffed animal before his ceremony. Then when his gift was revealed he could communicate with animals
Love the scene where Casita lifts Mirabel up to save the candle and pushes the rest of the family out, they make a fantastic team. Also love how Mirabel has somehow learned how to understand Casita's array of knocks and tinks as speech.
And bonus we can see Mirabel has everyone's powers on her dress. This already gives us a very big spoiler to understand that she is already a wonderful GIFT to everyone. Even she has a good connection with the Casita this another bonus to make us understand that she is already has place of Abuela. When I was watched the movie for the first time I already understand the topic. Mirabel is like a secret miracle and gift to her family but nobody wants to understand that because everybody only thinking their powers but not sticking to the family and being hopeful.
I kinda feel like Mirabel is sort of similar to Yue from Avatar The Last Airbender. For those who don’t know who that is: Yue is a princess who was given a peice of the moon spirit as an infant. The moon gave her people the gift of water bending, but Yue herself didn’t have that ability. When the moon spirit later died, and the people lost their powers, Yue took its place in the sky and returned the gift to her people. My headcanon is that Casita is, to some extent, the spirit of Pedro and that his soul is the fire burning in the candle. When Mirabel didn’t get a gift, the candle flickered as if the magic weakened, or was somewhat moved elsewere. Mirabel had more of a relationship to Casita than anyone else in the movie so Casita, rather than giving Mirabel a magical gift instead made Mirabel herself magical so that when and if the house fell apart, she could bring the magic back. That’s why the cracks in the walls follow Mirabel’s mood and the candle burn brighter when she’s happy. At least that’s what I think.
@@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.
Also worth noting that, for all the other powers being considered “gifts”, they ranged from being annoying (hearing everything) or a burden (poor Luisa), to being the reason their lives were destroyed (Bruno), so not quite a gift. Mirabel’s freedom from those restrictive identities allowed her to move freely to help her entire family, which is actually a gift, not just a magic power.
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.
I said the same I agree, notice how in the end the candle disappears and never reappear, its because Mirabel became that candle that sustains the home, the family, and everyone powers. notice how when mirabel lost a little hope because of abuela not having hope in her, the candle started to die out the more mirabel was broken and angry, the house fell apart and everyone lost their gifts, but when she had that hope back, abuela giving that hope as well then everything went back to normal, even better. and the butterflies on the candle and on Maribel clothes is so obvious lol. and Maribel didn't get the gift of her being the candle herself (the source of the magic) when she was young because the clothes she wore had a caterpillar on it, it just wasn't her time that's all for her to show this cause its not as obvious as the other gifts, but whos to say she didn't receive it. when she touched the door knob everything disappearing hinted at her gift to me, its cause it couldn't be seen, hope can't be seen you just need to believe and take action, also her being the source of their magic can't be seen as well lol. her gift isn't by sight its by faith. she had it in her all along. its like the saying faith without action is dead.
Casita responds to Mirabel much the same way it does Abuela (and the strife caused between the two is what caused Casita to split in earnest instead of gradually like it did when Abuela essentially exiled Bruno and became harsher on everyone else following his disappearance.) Along with Leadership I also think Mirabel recieved a second Gift: she can literally see everyone’s mindscapes. She sees and reacts to every Retelling in “We don’t talk about Bruno,” every single metaphor as if it’s literal in “Surface Pressure” (prompting Luisa to at times pull Mirabel to safety), and in Abuela’s Memory (forget the song title hear; I don’t speak spanish unfortunately) Mirabel is actively shown witnessing the memory and reacting to it as it unfolds…instead of showing her Reaction after the Song Ends and Memory Fades. Mirabel is IN It as an active witness But as far as why Mirabel didn’t recieve a door initially…well I don’t think her Abuela would’ve reacted well to either of Mirabel’s Gifts made public, OR the Casita feared what these sorts of Gifts would do to Mirabel if they became public to the Encanto and Household. As it was Bruno was shoved away for a somewhat similar gift, Luisa was taken advantage of for every petty little task instead of the Encanto taking care of themselves, and Mirabel’s Mother’s gift no doubt became an excuse for them to not learn some basic first aid and more advanced medicine (tho she’s not shown to be as burdened by the family or encanto like her three daughters are; but I think that’s more due to her age than anything.)
I love that!!! If that’s the case, then she would be the only one who had a gift after the house collapsed, hence her being THE gift as an extension of the candle.
I disagree with her mom being less burdened. If you notice of the 3 triplets Mirabelle's mom seemed physically like the oldest? Plus her gift was whatever she made would heal. So probably when she was younger she had a lot of responsibilities just like Louise. However she obviously learned how to lessen the burden by having pre-made baked goods to give people she just has to add the final ingredient and voila healing.
In the song ‘Waiting on a Miracle’ that Mirabel sings, she says she could move the mountains, make new flowers bloom, heal what’s broken…etc. and she does exactly all that. Isabella makes new flowers, she heals her family, the mountain tire in 2 leading her abuela back to where it all began.
Oh wow that's a good point. I like how they made foreshadowing. Even in the song "We don't talk about Bruno" when Dolores said "It's like I can hear him now" it was because he was actually there
I actually think Mirabel became the miracle herself. They always touch the candle before opening the door, right? My theory is that Antonio was able to open his door not because of the candle but because of Mirabel. Remember, Mirabel walked Antonio while holding his hands. Also, the cracks were not responding to her family's problems but to her own emotions.
My friend and I thought something similar. Also, if you watch the moment back of Antonio about to reach for the doorknob, you will see Abuela being nervous, but then the camera focuses in on Mirabel, who is standing right behind Abuela. And right after that, Antonio gets his gift.
Yes, you touch on so many can not be missed story lines, and symbolism. There are butterfly's everywhere during the movie. We really needed this video.
I think she always had her door and was magical.The Casita was hers the minute she touched doorknob when she was a child. All the movie you can see her interactions with Casita and when right before candle go out, Casita only responded to her will, not the others. She wanted to grab the candle but lead everyone else out safe at the same time. So Casita forced all of them out but helped her and protected her. When other children touched doorknob something came out of them to create a room, but Mirable absorbed the power, at that moment when she felt sad the candle flame reacted to her sadness and got weak. Her mood controls the whole power, when she feels abandoned Casita starts to crack, but when she runs to help the others cracks heal. When she rebound with her sister, her power blooms and candle become stronger, but when she argues and accepts she isn't enough for grandma then nothing is enough anymore. At the end in the lake she saw the place was shown in the vision and finally she realized what's need to be done. Even Mirable staying in nursery is symbolic. She is the connection to the next generation. Unknowingly she even chose her cousin's gift for him, she said you are a big animal guy and there it is, he become an animal guy! Notice that his room is the biggest of all, and he's most well behave and understanding of all too. I think living with Mirable in nursery made him better and that's why Mirable shouldn't live separated therefore no separate room was there for her.
You also notice castita didn't give her a special room because it couldn't go in the rooms so it wouldn't be able to be with her anymore. She was also the only one to communicate with the house, like having one on one conversations.
@@vincentknws wow you're right! Casita couldn't control bruno's! Now I can see why Lisa was working out in hallways! Casita only has access to nursery and Abuela's room. 🤔
I just realized, mirabel's "gift" is everything she said in "waiting on a miracle" song She says "I would move the mountains" and at the end we see her moving away the family's problems which is alot making it a "mountain of problems" Then the new flowers or smt, she was able to convince isabela that she doesnt need to be perfect and stuff and isabela grew plants she didnt even knew she could grow "Heal what's broken" she "healed" or rebuilt the broken home and the broken family Then the "show this family something new", she showed the family that they don't have to always rely on their gifts, but with eachother. Thank you for reading if u read it
There are so many layers to this. Trauma is the overlying message, and how it's passed down. A less obvious layer for me was I saw the Gifts as mental health crutches not blessings, for trauma related issues -- and Mirabel didn't need one. She was the only one who seemed to see the person under the Gift. Tia Pepa needed help with managing her wild emotions, so the Casita made them visible and palpable, so her family couldn't ignore them. (Though eventually, having them visible made her less stable, since the family didn't have strategies for supporting her.) My husband told me I need to stop yelling "someone get her a therapist!" at the TV. Luisa's anxiety and hypervigilance for threats resulted in a Gift of super strength. (Though she took on the same approach to physical strength, and ultimately needed reassurance that she had worth beyond her strength.) Isabella was a people-pleaser who conformed to expectations, and her Gift was to naturally please everyone with grace and beauty. (Eventually she was trapped by the expectations, nearly marrying and having 5 kids just to please others... until through Mirabel she broke through to an unconventional artistry.)
It would be interesting to find out why Antonio got the gift of understanding animals based on this theory. Could it be that Antonio always felt lonely in his family as everyone was so preoccupied with their own stuff?
@@christianstill3252 Only Mirabel and her sisters really get the in-depth treatment. We don't get a deep dive into everyone else, or the hidden things they're struggling with - Antonio with his animal gift, Julietta with her healing, Dolores with her hearing, Camilo shape-shifting... even Bruno we didn't get much directly from his mouth, his song is all about other people's reactions to him.
I think Julieta's and Bruno's gifts make more sense in this context than Pepa's. Julieta wants to "fix what's broken" and though she seems to be well-adjusted, isn't her apron a part of her dress? That could mean she's always "on duty" to clean up a mess and make things better, which can't be much fun. Bruno's gift to see the future makes a lot of sense when the past has been traumatic, right? You'd want to know if another tragedy was coming, or, rather, you'd want assurance that things were going to be ok. This family is really not able to handle the possibility of more disaster, so adios, Bruno. As for the teen boy (whose name I can never remember) he's trying everything he can to please people, to the point where he's lost some of his own identity. I'm thinking of that first scene when he greets people at the party. I think Antonio's gift has something to do with hanging on to childhood because we are introduced to the tiger toy from the nursery and his jungle room with slides and all is paradise for a kid. Delores I can't figure out tho.
I totally get this. I have a gift...it's a kind of prophecy. My family started calling me, The Family Oracle. They made it seem like I had no worth beyond my gift...nothing else to offer to them or the world. I stopped telling them the things that I could "see" happening in the future. They can suck it.
Mirabel is the door, the casita, and the candle. She is a born leader because of her humility, perseverance, and compassion, and her ability to communicate well with all the others. . These qualities are part of her even without magic, but with them she also can be the most responsible person to cultivate the magic. When she brings together the family, reconciles all of it's parts, and repairs the magic, she also has brought together the entire village held within the mountains of the Encanto. This is confirmed when she is presented with her own doorknob by the family, and the new house, built by unity due to her own actions, comes to life again, like a second generation miracle.
Every Madrigal family member has an outfit that matches their gift (Dolores with soundwaves, Camilo with chameleons, Luisa with weights, etc...). Mirabel's outfit has butterflies which represent change and hope, yes, but her outfit also contains one thing that represents each family member: flowers, rain clouds, toucans, herbs, and a candle. Even her shoes have some symbolism. Technically her outfit was designed so she could stand out as much as her family, but I also think it represents her *being* the magic of the family. just something i noticed :)
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.
This actually makes sense! when Casita first started to crack, it was when Mirabel was singing about wanting to be noticed and appreciated in the family more. the rest of the family most likely did not see the cracks because they were all too focused on helping out the townsfolk, who rely on the madrigals too much throughout the whole movie.
I'd also like to point out after Antonio got his powers and everyone went into his room to celebrate and they took a picture without Mirabel and she basically went into a song about how she really isn't okay about not having a special gift like the rest of the family. When the song finished, it showed Casita cracking all of sudden and I think that shows her having that little breakdown because once she tried to show everyone, all the cracks disappeared which most likely displayed Mirabel having hope (or determination) again because she then goes on to figure out why that happened to Casita and I think that really pushes the theory even further that Mirabel IS Casita in human form.
I'd like to add how Casita cracked underneath her when they were all having dinner. Like the more people heard her dilemma, the more it cracked. Idk it's hard to explain but I feel u know exactly what I mean.
Supported by the vision itself. It was a picture of mirabel and the house cracked behind her. Back and forth. Like it’s determined by Mirabel whether the house will fall apart if she feels hopeless, or losing faith in herself. She IS the house.
I personally felt like her gift was connection and empathy. Like whenever she's seeing someone for who they are she's going along on the ride in their "Music Videos". With Isabella she starts out disconnected and can't keep up with her at first until she sees her truly and then she's with her all the way!
I think Mirabel has the same gift as Abuela. I believe when Abuela dies someday, Mirabel will take over the power of controlling or protecting the Casita, making Abuela's room, hers. The Casita chose Mirabel to be the new head of the family after Abuela will pass away from old age.
Not when she dies. Now. In fact the transfer should have happened when Mirabel (whose name is derived from the Latin word mirabilis which means miraculous) opened her door and got her gift. But my theory is Abuela refused to give up control, so the door disappeared. But as Mirabel became dissatisfied with her "lack of a gift", magnified by the celebration over Antonio, she started to tap into her gift, thus causing a tug of war for control between her and Abuela. That is why the cracks formed - including one literally between them - and why the magic faded. But as Abuela learned to give up control, Mirabel was able to take her place, restoring the magic.
@@cryofpaine I think that's very close. I believe Mirabel was supposed to be crowned as co-steward of the power when she received her gift so that Abuela could mentor her as Mirabel's power over the house grew with age. Full control and responsibility for Casita at age five is a bit much to put on a kid's shoulders IMO. Then when she began to enter adulthood (basically present day) Abuela should have completed (or very close to completing) the gradual transition of power to Mirabel. Since Abuela rejected any loss of control, Instead of the transfer happening gradually as Mirabel's power grew, it is just an increasingly stronger pull to yank the power away from Abuela. The stress on the house is too much so before she can forcibly pull the power away, the house crumbles.
The reason Abuela was never the embodiment is because no mater what happened she always held some resentment toward the bringing about of it by losing her husband and because of her resentment it became a chore Mirabel was born knowing what happened possibly sympathetic but she was pure and happy she possessed the qualities to take over
Her door didn’t disappear it just went into her and the house, she was always home because she has the same magic as the candle that mostly stays home, and when the candle started to fade is when Mirabel lost hope, it was like the candle was mirabels soul within it
I agree. But her family making her Doorknob the new FrontDoor was long overdue. Her Abuela literally forced her to stay in the nursery for 20 some years until then. (Mirabel’s age isn’t explicitely stated in the movie, only that she was the “second youngest” of the third generation, but all three sisters look no less than 5 years apart in age from Oldest to Youngest so I don’t get the impression that she’s a teenager, as Isabel and Dolores are old enough to marry)
Well technically you saw how she touched it and then wiped her hands on her dress taking off the Miracle off her hands and you saw that Antonio did not do that and his door opened
You were SO CLOSE! But no. The power that created the gift was Alma's intense desire to protect. She lost Pedro, and that intense urge to protect and save her children and family is what created the encanto originally. But as time goes on, she loses sight of that and twists that into something that becomes broken. When you look at the rest of the family, it's clear the kids all went to the doors with some kind of idea in their head what they wanted. But not Mirabel. She only cared about one thing, her family. And that shines through in all that she did. No matter how much they ignored her talents and skills (of which she excelled in many things dancing, singing, seamstress, crafting, playing the accordion, parcor) no matter how badly they treated her, she loved her family so intensely she went through hell and back to save them. Casita knew she loved the family enough to power the miracle. Casita didn't give her a gift, instead Casita CHOSE her to be the next head of the family. Note she is the only one in the entire family, including Alma, that actively TALKS to Casita. Alma ORDERS Casita, Mirabel treats Casita like a member of the family. This is clearly evident by the door to the house at the end where Mirabel is standing at the forefront. She will power the Casita, instead of through fear and the intense desire to protect, but through unconditional and whole hearted love.
I'm with you on this one, Mirabel seems like the only one besides Alma who could converse with Casita and understand Casita as well. Not even Alma seems to understand Casita cause she only orders Casita around and Casita do as they're told by Alma but with Mirabel Casita didn't hesitate to show their feelings. And I do get the deal with how what was in Mirabel's mind when she was a little and about to get her gifts is to make the Madrigals proud so she didn't get visible gifts because she doesn't need any help, her parents love her unconditionally and so do her family. What defines their gifts are what they desire the most I think. Alma got what she desired the most at the time, a place to shelter her and her babies. And to further prove this theory, Antonio is an 'animal guy' based on what Mirabel said even before he got his gift and he is granted the gift to communicate with the animals right after. And not only that, he got stuffed cheetah from Mirabel and when he got his gift there's a cheetah that's so close to him and became his ride whenever he goes.
My interpretation is sort of a combination of yours and Mirabel having magic. Think of how Antonio has an affinity for animals and the magical ability to communicate with them. Pepa has an affinity for weather and it's directly linked to her emotions, Isabella's affinity for nature in the form of plants which are, again, expressive of what she wants to present (gorgeous flowers with perfect petals when she's presenting as perfect, as Abuela expects, but then creating new and unusual things when she allowed herself to express what she was really feeling). Mirabel's affinity is for her family and her home. Her family members that are in need of support just open up to her when she gives them the opportunity, their facades of strength and perfection dissolve when Mirabel lets them open up. And, like Antonio's ability to communicate with animals in a way no one else is able to or can understand, Mirabel is able to communicate with Casita and understand what it's saying when it communicates with her in like kind. Casita doesn't emote when interacting with anyone else, only with Mirabel. To everyone else, Casita is a thing, right? A shelter, a tool, an assistant, moving things where they're needed, turning the floor into a treadmill for Luisa. But Mirabel's bond with Casita is... really quite magical in its nature. Mirabel and Casita are friends, in the beginning of, "The Family Madrigal," Casita eagerly plays along with Mirabel, creating music for her song, and Mirabel is the only one to wave goodbye to Casita as the family heads into town. And, along with being the next head of the family, I also think part of the reason Mirabel didn't get a separate magical room dedicated to an ability, is because Casita IS the magical room dedicated to her ability, because her ability is tied to her bond with Casita. The other relatives, the rooms that we saw in the movie (Bruno's tower and Isabella and Antonio's rooms) are like pocket dimensions. They're not really IN the house, they're their own little worlds, and the door is like a portal into them. If Mirabel had been given a room like these, she would have been separated from Casita and not able to express her gift. But, exactly as you said, her bond with and love for her family is her part of the miracle, her role in la Familia Madrigal.
I think it isn’t just hope Mirabel received, but also the gift of empathy. She seems to feel more deeply than the other Madrigals in general, but also sees the things the others ignore, miss, or shove aside. The other characters open up to her readily, even about the things they would never tell anyone else, and she has a talent for sniffing out when somebody is hiding something. In a manner of speaking, even La Casita confides in her by showing her the spreading cracks. Not even Julietta is aware that something is amiss with her beloved daughters, whereas Mirabel got them to reveal their hidden truths before they hit the crisis point the way she did in the “Waiting on a Miracle” sequence. I mean, none of the other Madrigals realized she wasn’t in the first picture, despite both of Mirabel’s parents being fully aware of how difficult Antonio’s special night would be for her. Mirabel not only sussed out Antonio, Luisa, and Isabela’s worries, but she was able to connect with Bruno, the uncle she only barely remembered, and find out why he left and what was going on with him in less than ten minutes after meeting him, while he was being evasive and fidgety. I don’t think even Dolores knew why he was there, despite hearing him all the time. Hope is a wonderful gift, but it goes hand in hand with empathy. After all, if you can’t understand somebody, how are you supposed to give them hope in the first place?
Right! She is like a hope, when Luisa said she was tired and Maribel noticed, Luisa got weaker to REST, when Isabella says she didn't want to be perfect, a new creation appears, When Bruno confessed he loved his family to Mirabel, he got reunited with them at the end!! AND IT ALL ADDS UP , When Maribel tells Luisa to rest, tells Isabella she DOESN'T need to be perfect, And PROMISES Bruno he will be back with his family
For those who don’t want to watch their theory is that Mirabel is the embodiment of the candle and an extension of the magic and also (I think) that she gives people hope.
This makes so much sense! The theory that Mirabel is the "miracle" and the candle that gives everyone powers is, I think, hinted when she sang "Waiting on a Miracle". In the song, when she was singing the things she would do for her family, she said: I would move the mountains Make new trees and flowers grow Someone please just let me know, where do I go? I am waiting on a miracle, a miracle I would heal what's broken Show this family something new Who I am inside, so what can I do? I'm sick of waiting on a miracle, so here I go I am ready Come on, I'm ready I've been patient, and steadfast, and steady Bless me now as you blessed us all those years ago When you gave us a miracle If you listen closely, you can already see that what Mirabel sang became the ending. She moved the mountains when she was angry. She made new trees and flowers grow by comforting Isabela. She healed her broken family. She showed them something new. And she was able to do all that because she IS the miracle/candle herself. When she sang "I'm sick of waiting on a miracle, so here I go. I am ready", that's when she finally took on her power: the magic that powers the Madrigals. Although I do think that she had been gifted this power since she was young (by wiping the power off of the candle and to her dress--eventually transferring it to herself), it was only after she sang Waiting on a Miracle did she fully accept this responsibility.
I always thought that whilst her gift was almost like being chosen by casita, as she’s the only one that can utilise and fully understand and communicate w it, as well as her being the glue that kept the family together, that she was almost meant to be a vessel of sorts. The candle went out in her hands and I saw that as the magic choosing her to hold it until a new casita was built so that it never truly went out. The only one without powers would have enough space to store all of it yk? But reading all the comments about being the next matriarch as well makes a lot of sense! She was a trailblazer and managed to create a brand new system, healing old wounds and creating a better dynamic, seems like she was always meant to lead.
I believe Mirabel IS the gift. Plus, the fact that she did indeed get her own door at the end. She was in the center of the whole family as it showed on her door which clearly says that she's destined to lead the family when the time comes. I watched the movie 3 times to finally understand everything
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.
I felt that her gift was pretty clear in the movie, she was the only person in the family that had a relationship with Casita, everyone lived there, but she seemed to have more control over it, being able to use Casita as an extension of herself in multiple situations. I felt like she was the next chosen Matriarch.
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.
Mirabel's gift was pretty clear even from the start of the movie. She's the next Matriarch. She prepared Antonio for his ceremony like Abuela did for her, at the end of the movie she waves at Casita like Abuela did when Abuela first greeted Casita, her door was the front of the house with her in the middle of the family and she guided each of her family members to better things, therefore, strengthening their characters. She is the gift for sure.
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😂
Mirabel's actual gift is sweeping people up into spontaneous bouts of extremely well-choreographed song and dance.
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 😂
Can we say that the Casita is the real MVP. Even as it's dying it focuses on protecting the family and helping Mirabel
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
At the end of the movie my take on it was similar, that Mirabel became the next Abuela and that Casita chose her to lead the family once Abuela passed on. She was given the gift of leadership, which worked so well with her naturally hopeful disposition that there really wasn't a change. Mirabel acts like a leader for the family in how she sees what's wrong and takes charge fixing it. She is the matriarch that Abuela should have been.
In the future, when Mirabel nears the end of her days, there will likely be another child who 'doesn't get a gift' but this time they will know what it means.
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 feel like some people missed the symbolism of the line: “Look at this home
We need a new foundation”
The old regime of how Abuela ran things had to be torn down to make way for a new way of running the family. I felt like maribel’s gift was to become the new matriarch of the family. She was seen nurturing and helping each family member discover their true worth.
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.
Also supporting your connection between Mirabel's outfit and the butterfly on the candle, we see Abuela and Mirabel surrounded by butterflies at the exact moments when Dos Oruguitas changes to Dos Mariposas. Two butterflies - two matriarchs. Mirabel is the next matriarch. Her gift was everything - la Casita, the family, the candle - all of it. She isn't given a room in the house because she is given the entire house, which we see evidenced by her door being the front door at the end of the movie.
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.
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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.
@@katcrooks7308 his name is Antonio
@@katcrooks7308 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.
This would also explain why Mirabel's door disappeared. Everyone's room was made to be specialized for their gifts, but if Mirabel is the gift itself, her "room" would be the entire Casita.
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
I think Mirabel *is* the candle, at least symbolically. The candle's brightness and the cracks in the casita always mirror Mirabel's state. Also, Antonio receives a gift that matches Mirabel's gift to him (the jaguar stuffed animal and Antonio's jaguar companion). At her ceremony, Mirabel's outfit visually echoes the candle (gold butterflies on a white dress). Abuela says that Pedro sent her Mirabel, and we know that his sacrifice also created the candle.
The candle created the mountains, the living casita, and gives the gifts. Mirabel gives Antonio his gift, reshapes the mountains around the encanto, and revives the house and magic. The candle burns out in the climax only when Mirabel is in her lowest emotional state.
It even explains why the door disappeared. Casita made the door to prepare for the gift the candle would give Mirabel. Then Mirabel became the candle, which has no room of its own. Being the candle would also require Mirabel to bond with the family members before they received their gifts, so she stays in the nursery. She gave Antonio the jaguar toy and then walked him to the door, and Antonio's gift wound up matching Mirabel's intuition of him perfectly.
Also, if Mirabel is the candle and Abuela is the candle's keeper, it makes perfect sense that the magic starts to fail when Abuela begins to mistreat her as a 5-year-old, gets worse when she feels like she isn't part of the family, and completely implode when Abuela yells at her that she caused all of the problems in the family.
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.
Mirabel’s lack of a gift was meant as a wake up call to Abuela. The Miracle was trying to test her by presenting her with a child who lacked a power. Abuela needed to learn to see her family as people and not as tools, so she was given a child who was not useful to her as a tool.
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
At first It seemed as Bruno’s vision was about embracing Isabella but, I realized the vision was about the family EMBRACING MIRABEL. Notice how Isabella embraced Mirabel, casitas cracks were reversing and the candle got brighter. At the end when the whole family embraced her…Casita came back and everyone got their powers.
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...
I also love how Mirabel is the only one who actively communicates with Casita during the whole movie. She feels like the home is part of the family, but the rest of the family basically ignores the Casita.
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-
I thought it was so unfair how she never got her own door. Now I think it was because her door was always meant to be the front door of 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
Being the source of the power she is able to sense the “disturbance in the force” within each family member. The songs were therapy sessions and with each break through their gifts evolved.
Wow
But Luisa didn’t evolve?
Nah her only power is being a licensed therapist
When she opens the door to the repaired home, it suddenly lights up and glows like the magic gift doors. It seems implied that Mirabel's door wasn't a bedroom, it was to the entire Casita, which reignited her family's powers, without a new candle, thus her gift was always the living source of their power.
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.
Lemme save y’all 12 minutes: Mirabel’s gift is better communication with the house, being the source of the candle, and hope. Mentally though, the gift is just support and existing.
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. UA-cam 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
When I watched the movie I felt that Maribel was the gift to her family, she understood all of their struggles and tried to help them to be the best version of themselves and as they were falling apart she brought them back together. I also felt like for the most part the was the main one that interacted with Casita verbally, so I thought it was fitting that the main doorway of the house ended up being her door in the end.
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.
Did anyone else notice that when casita was falling apart, everyone was basically thrown out by casita except Maribel? Instead Casita helped her to get to the candle
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.
Mirabel's outfit has more than just butterflies, it has EVERYONE'S symbols! It has the candle, flowers, it has rain drops, it has sound waves, it has herbs, it has a jaguar and a macaw, and it has a strong fist raising a dumbbell to the sky.
Okay but also Bruno says at the end “you’re the real gift kid, now let us in” FURTHER proving that she is an extension of the candle and just how in the beginning the candle made the house and lead Abuela and the kids in. Now Mirabel is an extension of the candle letting everyone in again and thus brings the Casita back to life when she opens the door.
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
Now I notice that according to this theory of the “embodiment”, when infant Mirabel comes to the door to get her gift, the door “vanishes”…I think the door didn’t vanish, the power of Casita passed on to Mirabel when she touched it. And it totally makes sense with the whole theory and the fact that Mirabel holds a very special relationship with Casita.
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. :)
At the end of the movie, they literally tell her she's the REAL gift. She is a gift to the family. Love it!
She was also meant to take abuelas place. Both her and abuela are direct ties to the fate of the magic in the family
Pedro was Casita. His spirit took hold of the candle and became Casita, hence his picture falling so dramatically as soon as the house began to crumble. The cracks started when Mirabel, the key, voiced her pain, as the house itself and its spirit of her grandfather were hurt by Mirabel's dismissal, and Abuelas abuse of the gift she was given and how this impacted her loved ones.
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
Another thing I seem to treat as symbolism is that Mirabel's name is almost sounding like miracle.
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
Bruno said it. “The fate of the miracle itself”. And, “You’re the real Gift kid”. She was the real gift.
Mirabell has also the Gift of sight. She SEES her family, each member and helps them to find their voice of (self)doubt to finally surpass that with the help of the others. She is the one who gets told what bothers them and that they are not alone. She's the one who listens and hears them out. She is the best embodiment of what a familymember should do for one another.
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
Mirabel's gift is not just hope, it's the ability to see and value people for who they really are. That's what she does for everyone in the family, and that's why she causes so much disruption, because she sets people free to be their real selves, which messes up the controlling, perfectionist dynamic Abuela has unwittingly set up. So the family sees her as dangerous but in fact she's fixing things, not breaking them. It's a super interesting story in a lot of ways.
I always thought that Merabel's gift was "ownership of the miracle", a Matriarch. She didn't get a room to fit her gift, because, her "room" was the entire Casita. The cracks only show up when Merabel is heartbroken or scared. BUT, the casita had been cracking on the inside for years. Casita is Merabel.
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!
I just love the scene where casita doesn't let anyone get to the candle and helps Mirabel get to it. Casita throws everyone out and protects her when she can't get out in time, almost as if she is part of the house and that she needed to stay behind when the house fell completely.
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
If I’m being honest I’m glad that Mirabel didn’t get a gift in the end, I feel it’s a fitting ending for the movie, showing that you don’t need to have a special talent to be loved and valued.
Yup! A gift would've defeated the purpose
@@Rackstack234 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.
I felt Mirabel’s gift also had to do with her obvious talent, embroidery. She was the thread that kept the family together. Abuelo Pedro was the embodiment of the candle and he burned brightly when the family felt their unity breaking. In the end Pedro became the butterflies when the family found that they could do more when they worked together with or without magic.
This. Mirabel would absolutely be considered the talented person of the family if she wasn't born in the Madrigals who have literal superpowers.
I believe her gift since she " didn't get one " when her door disappeared, was that she could communicate with the house. She seems to be the one to understand Casita the best, which is why she's the one who talks to Casita the most.
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??
@@vxzkkkk 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.
Mirabel's gift is that nothing bad ever happens to her glasses
Edit: As someone who wears glasses I envy that power
Edit 2: Omg!!1!1! Thanks for likes! But really, first comment on a video I've made in a long time and 4k likes? Dang, you people sure are swell.
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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
She also gave Antonio a animal toy and later he began talking to animals after receiving his gift. Also Casita started cracking hearing after Mirabel's song.
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
I think that Mirabel's gift is in getting people to communicate - especially via the fantastic and impossible song and dance numbers. Luisa didn't want to talk about how she felt, but she sang about it ONLY with Mirabel. No one wanted to talk about Bruno, but they sang about it with Mirabel. Bruno wanted to hide away, but he couldn't resist Mirabel. Mirabel even got her own song singing about what she was hiding even from herself.
NO, she got magic. At the end the door lights up for her, so that shows she did have a gift. It was a strong connection to casita and the family in a way no one else had. It's not as flashy, but she was the glue holding everyone together and helping everyone grow and be themselves. She's the future matriarch of the family, and leader of the village.
You notice casita only followed orders/direction from two people. Abuela and Maribell. Obviously Maribell is the next matriarch of the family and keeper of the magic. That's why she didn't get a gift. And since the miracle is still in it's infancy they wouldn't know this. So I wonder now if every other generation a child gets chosen by the magic to be the next matriarch by not receiving a gift.
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”
Something else to consider is Mirabel's relationship to the house, that goes back at least to the day she was supposed to get her gift. She is the only one who names the house and speaks to it like a person. In return, the house literally bends to serve her. This might suggest that the disappearing door didn't disappear at all. It was always the front door. The entire house is her room.
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.
No no no the entire house is not her room SHE'S THE NEW OWNER
I like this theory and it makes sense. It actually does look like she is more in touch with Casita than all the others and she is the hope they all need when things get rough. She was able to help Antonio on his day and she gave Bruno hope to see a good vision.
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 almost immediately asked what the grandmother's power was during the intro song and since she didn't have one, said "I bet Mirabel's the next matriarch." And when we see all the extra interaction between the house and her (it just seemed affectionate), "The house totally chose her. She doesn't need extra powers when she's got the house." And when the kid gets his animal room and it became apparent that the power was representative of what was important to them/a reflection of who they were, I said "Oh, she's definitely getting the house, because the house holds the family and family is what Mirabel holds most dear." Lol. Great movie.
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.
One of the most amusing lines is when the village kid says, "Maybe your gift is denial." 🤣 But it's very telling. Mirabel wasn't living in denial. She was living in hope, but skeptics would call it denial. We need people like Mirabel who hope against all hope.
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
Actually, Abuela's powers are protection. She got her powers through the prayer and the candle's first light. She raised the mountains that protects them! She's very protective, over protective actually... and her dress has mountains on them! :3 So she is the protector and that's why she herself has a door. If she didn't have a power, she wouldn't have the door. She protects her family, the village and the candle.
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.
I really thought her gift was social skills. The way she comforted people and the child asked her to come with him. And how she could make people feel better even when it's tough in the movie etc...
I love this theory. Someone else may have also added this to the comments already, but I think further proof is seen in Mirabel's interactions with Antonio. She literally gives him a gift that she made, one that is directly reflected in his magical Gift. Antonio in turn, in a moment of childlike insight, knew that he needed Mirabel in order to succeed in his ceremony.
Gosh, I love this movie.
BUT at the same time she did say "i know your an animal guy and i made you this so, when you move into your cool, new room you always have something to snuggle with" IMPLYING even before his gift he has had a bond with animals and has always liked or connected with them.
@@kcdoneyhue4671 I think it's both, Mirabel's power isn't to bestow powers onto her family members, but to see inside them to their true selves and encourage them to express themselves in the ways that they want to. In doing so she helps them to find a path when they feel lost. There's even a lyric in Isabella's song where she says something about Mirabel helping her to see the way forward when she couldn't before (right at the end before they hug). So Antonio was worried bcos he was feeling a LOT of pressure to have a gift, and it was Mirabel who helped him forget all that worry and focus on the things he loved which in turn helped him "realise" what his gift was supposed to be.
I read this comment somewhere and it was hilarious:
“Mirabel’s gift is to turn people’s emotions and feelings into full fledge fantastic 3D music videos”
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
Mirabel's gift is controlling the house and everyone's gifts. When she's happy everything is okay but when she's sad the house cracks and their gifts are affected. In the end when she was utterly hopeless, the house crumbled and they all lost their gifts. It all depends on how she feels. She's a gift herself.
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.
Mirabel is like the family glue, a listener, a peacemaker, one with a kind heart, indeed she was the gift herself as one in the comments said ^^... At the end of the day, it is not the gift that defines one person but their heart♥
Her gift was insight. She could see her family members and what they truly needed.
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.
When she touched the candle, she didn’t touch the door. She touched **HERSELF!** Maybe she accidentally got her own magic, just not from the door. She could’ve changed her destiny from having a gift, to making the gifts POSSIBLE. She also held the candle in its last moments!
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
I think that Abuela's power was literally a 'head of the household' type of power. We see Casita respond to her commands throughout the movie, especially in the scene where Casita moves Mirabel to the other end of the table at Abuela's command. I also think that Mirabel inherited that same power bc she's the only other character that Casita seems to respond to directly, even helping her get dressed in the mornings. The reason she didn't get her own door is bc she is meant to inherit Abuela's room and take her place as the head of the house when that time comes. It might even be part of Abuela's power to help bestow the powers onto each family members as they come of age.
"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.
Great video. I feel like it also explains why when Casita came back to life once Mirabel added her door knob, the candle itself did not reappear, but instead on the door it shows Mirabel with the candle. She was truly the embodiment of the magic, her family and Casita itself.
Can we also acknowledge the fact that Disney noticed how much people loved the ocean in Moana as an amazing character, said "Hold my Cerveza," and made Casita
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
Mirabel internalized the candle at her gift ceremony. She holds it, then wipes her hands on herself before reaching for the door knob. Mirabel's clothes have symbols for everyone in her family. She is the center. She is a bridge from the past to the future. There are many bridge images throughout the story. She also projects Antonio's gift in the decorations she made on the box, plus the jaguar.
Wow !! Yesss
I'm glad you brought that up--about Maribel internalizing the candle. Another thing I noticed about that scene was that the colors of Maribel's dress plus the "gold-like" butterflies on her collar at her gift ceremony as a child are the same colors of the candle. Thus connecting Maribel to the candle.
Yes
I have a theory...
Mirabel received a gift when she came of age. She is able to adapt/influence the gifts of those in her family. She doesn't have a door because she needs to live in the nursery with the children before they come of age in order to assign a gift that suits them for who they truly are.
Evidence-
Antonio - Mirabel makes and gifts Antonio a stuffed jaguar and tells him "he's an animal guy" right before he received the gift of being able to talk to animals.
Luisa - After "Surface Pressure" when it becomes clear to Mirabel that Luisa is struggling under the weight of expectation surrounding her strength she hugs Louisa and says "I think you're carrying way too much". The next time we see Luisa, she isn't able to carry anything, she has lost her strength
Isabel - After Isabel admits she doesn't want to marry and that she's only doing it for the family, Mirabel comes to the realisation that she is not the "perfect golden child" that Mirabel thought she was and instantly, Isabel is able to create plants that she's never made before, things that are more representative of how she feels inside and not just what people expect.
If Mirabel's gift is to assign/influence the gifts of those in the family, it makes sense that whenever Mirabel feels like she isn't part of the family the magic fades. (When they leave her out of the photo, when she sees Bruno's prophecy, when her and abuela argue)
This theory also makes sense of the duality surrounding Bruno's vision, as part of the family, Mirabel can keep the gifts and the magic strong, if the family reject her, the magic will go with her.
That was a bit of an essay but I can't find anyone saying the same thing!
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.
Mirabel also has a design for each member of the family on her dress along with the butterflies that you mentioned.
I also remember Mirabel saying to Antonio that he was an animal guy when she gave him his birthday gift of the stuffed jaguar (the gift box was even decorated with the animals that he would eventually have as his friends). Then Casita responded and gave Antonio the gift of the ability to communicate with animals. Yet another sign that her gift was the embodiment of the magic within Casita as well as the candle itself. Pretty awesome to think about. Great video! This confirmed my suspicions as well.
Yes
exactly
She meant that he likes animals, and that animals are on the paper is most likely just Disney doing it for fun or foreshadowing. Antonio probably got the gift “talking to animals” cuz he likes animals, and someone said that Antonio can talk to animals so he has someone to talk to or smut like that
When Abuela ”oofs” i think Mirabel will take her place.
I wonder if she can become a butterfly
Bruno LITERALLY confirms that Mirabel IS the gift
Also Mirabel’s door is the door to the whole Casita. The house is her room.
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
I really feel for Bruno. His situation was the classic "conflate the prophecy for the cause" trope. All he did was tell people what was going to happen. It's not his fault if it was good or bad.
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 believe that Mirabel is the most gifted as she’s kind of the heart of the home and family and will take over as the Matriarch of the family after her Abuela. She seems to have more of a control over Casita. She is the connection between the family and La Casita.
It's also very symbolic and interesting that in the final song Bruno himself sings: "You are the real gift, kid, let us in" as Mirabel is about to place the new doorknob therefore assuming her place as the next Matriarch of the Madrigal's. The new main door shows a drawing with all the Madrigals with Mirabel at the center holding the candle!
😭
Yes I recognised that.
You can't fill a cup that's already full. It seemed to me that, while Mirabel was always filled with hope for her family, the future, and the like - she's always had a superpower. She continuously felt like she had no part in her family - but she was literally the ONLY person anyone was able to speak to about their insecurities. It was almost a compulsion. Her little cousin and the ceremony, Louisa and her strength, Isabela and the way people perceive her and what she wants, Bruno and his confession as to why he left, her Abuela and the story of how it all came to be. Her power was to bring out the inner shames of everyone and turn it into something more. It helped Bruno use his Sight, gave Louisa a support system, and freed Isabela and Abuela from their respective cages (the need of perfection and fear of losing everything). Mirabel made her family stronger from the start, even though nobody was able to see it.
I’ve noticed that butterflies seem to be a big theme in this movie, the house has butterfly prints and tiles and Mirabel has them decorated all over her. They seem to be her symbol and may also be a sort of connection to the house. What’s also interesting is in the Greek myth of Pandora’s box, after all of the world’s evil leaves the box what flies out last is a butterfly named hope. I think that Mirabel is like that butterfly, the hope in the family during their dark times, and that is her gift.
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
@@MariaSolvesProblems 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',
I agree that she was the embodiment of the candle. This is why her door was the front door of casita. She embodied all the doors/gifts and had access to them all. Stars don’t shine they burn. She was indeed the flame 🔥 that kept the miracle alive. Great movie!
Also, I noticed that during her door ceremony, Mirabel touches the candle, then herself and THEN the door which disappears because the whole Casita is her door. Just as you said… she IS the gift.
There was one massive clue that was missed.
Mirabel was the only member of the family that could "command" the casita!
Every other member of the family had the home react to their needs, but only Mirabel was able to actually intentionally control it, we see this with her request at the very beginning of the film to have the home provide percussion in the form of the drawers, doors and floors which reacted to her song as if it were an extension of her will.
We see it again later when the casita began to crumble, while it reacted in a protective way to get the rest of the family to safety it continued to follow Mirabel's direction and intention to get to the candle and continued to do so, even protecting her and the candle until every iota of magic was drained, and she was safe.
In fact, the only time the casita failed to follow her command was when she was in the hollows between the walls with Bruno, but that may have had more to do with them simply being inside the walls and the casita being unable to fully move without potentially damaging the family, as noted with the wall expansion that caused Peppa to be thrown in her chair etc.
Little things like that and the incredible familiarity with how the home works and contorts around Mirabel compared to every other family member leads me to believe that this bond is much greater than even the one Abuela has with the family home.
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.
@@winterdragon0 but like the comment said, Mirabel is the only one that doesn't just command it to do stuff
I can see her possessing the gift of leadership; she has the brains, she communicates, listens and empowers everyone. She was able to witness _almost_ everyone’s confessions about how they felt abt all the burdens/pressure they have to endure just to honor the Madrigal name (ex. Luisa and Isabela) and Mirabel understood and acknowledged that. She’s a fresh new start for a next gen leader to look after the Madrigal household and she’s eligible to be one.
I noticed In the scene where the younger version of her grandmother sees her future husband for the first time and their eyes meet, a gold monarch butterfly is flying by above them.
I think Mirabel‘s emotional state reflects the casitas’ state. because the first time we see A crack in the casita she says that she’s waiting for a miracle which means that the casita is waiting for a miracle and the Casita is in a state where it doesn’t have the miracle yet. and things like this happen throughout the movie
Good point
Mirabell's emotional state is reflected in the candles and Casita because they have a strong mental connection.
So Mirabell was candle number two.
In the film's finale, she absorbed all the rest of the magic in her from the candle. This is probably why she later gave Cisita life and magic.
Exactly what I thought. Her gift just seems to be her deep connection with la casita, both emotional and physical
I saw a theory somewhere that casita is the 'reincarnation' of Abuela's late husband Pedro. The family was given a miracle right after Pedro died by the river, also worth noting that when casita started to break, it'd sometimes pan to Pedro's portrait. It never left my mind since then.
EDIT: Also, the first time Alma (Abuela) met Pedro, he waved hello at her. Same as how casita also waved at Alma and the triplets when it appeared in front of them.
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
there’s too many theories, but they all include
-Mirabel’s empathy towards the other family members
-Mirabel’s connection (and communication) with the Casita
-Mirabel’s door being the entrance and her “room” being the Casita
-Mirabel’s mood affecting the Candle and the Casita’s conditions
-Pedro being the Candle and/or the Casita
-Abuela getting her own door for some reason?
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.
When I first saw the movie I knew immediately that she had a connection, and that in a sense she was the light giving life to the gifts,a human version of the candle if you will, or the bridge that keeps everything connected. When she had finally lost her composure, and snapped at her grandmother,that's when everything literally fell apart. She was a representation for those whom felt outcasted because of them thinking they aren't special or seen to those in their family. I read like a writer and watch movies like one too, I had also guessed,that bruno's visions didn't give the full picture and I was right! I love,love,love this movie and I'm an 25 year old!
I do prefer the idea that Mirabel is still without a gift. Because _that_ makes her special, in a family of magical people, she is the most unique. And she is able to bring her family together in the end and heal the long lasting scars that come with expectation and the family's name and reputation it and all of its members needed to uphold. It tells those of us who feel like they don't fit in that it's okay that we're different. The people who love us most will accept us as we are. A very important message for those of us who feel like we're lesser or don't measure up to our family members' achievements or strengths and abilities. We don't need any special powers, because we're already good enough for the people who love us.
Her 'gift' in this theory basically supports the same idea, though, to be fair.
Yes definitely
Nah she should fly
Totally agree that she doesn’t need magical powers.
yes
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also, another thing i've noticed that really confirms the fact that Mirabel is an embodiment of the family's gift is Antonio's gift ceremony. The few gift ceremonies we've seen in the movie show the kid about to receive a gift touching the candle before going to open their door, so I think touching the candle in an important part of the whole process. During Antonio's ceremony, he is so nervous he asks Mirabel to hold his hand and to stay with him all the way to his door. You could even say she's guiding him to his door. I think it was sort of a transition between the candle and Mirabel. Now that the candle has died, and I don't think a new one was created at the end of the movie, it would make sense that during every new gift ceremony, Mirabel would be the one guiding the kid to their door, because she has now replaced the candle as the embodiment of the family Madrigal's miracle.
I sort of thought it was foreshadowing as well because Mirabel gave Antonio a tiger stuffed animal before his ceremony. Then when his gift was revealed he could communicate with animals
Love the scene where Casita lifts Mirabel up to save the candle and pushes the rest of the family out, they make a fantastic team. Also love how Mirabel has somehow learned how to understand Casita's array of knocks and tinks as speech.
And bonus we can see Mirabel has everyone's powers on her dress. This already gives us a very big spoiler to understand that she is already a wonderful GIFT to everyone. Even she has a good connection with the Casita this another bonus to make us understand that she is already has place of Abuela. When I was watched the movie for the first time I already understand the topic. Mirabel is like a secret miracle and gift to her family but nobody wants to understand that because everybody only thinking their powers but not sticking to the family and being hopeful.
I kinda feel like Mirabel is sort of similar to Yue from Avatar The Last Airbender.
For those who don’t know who that is: Yue is a princess who was given a peice of the moon spirit as an infant. The moon gave her people the gift of water bending, but Yue herself didn’t have that ability. When the moon spirit later died, and the people lost their powers, Yue took its place in the sky and returned the gift to her people.
My headcanon is that Casita is, to some extent, the spirit of Pedro and that his soul is the fire burning in the candle. When Mirabel didn’t get a gift, the candle flickered as if the magic weakened, or was somewhat moved elsewere.
Mirabel had more of a relationship to Casita than anyone else in the movie so Casita, rather than giving Mirabel a magical gift instead made Mirabel herself magical so that when and if the house fell apart, she could bring the magic back. That’s why the cracks in the walls follow Mirabel’s mood and the candle burn brighter when she’s happy.
At least that’s what I think.
I really really LOVE that approach! And the parallel you drew between ATLA and this - beautiful!
That was a very brilliant analysis. I have sent ATLAB and this is very similar to that as well. Spot on!
Mirabel: I didn't get a gift
*voice somewhere in the distance*: that's rough, buddy
There is a scene that focuses on his picture that suggested he's the house to me
Yeah!
She has the gift of “emotional intelligence” - which was much needed by all of her family members. Her “door” was the “front” door.
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.
Also worth noting that, for all the other powers being considered “gifts”, they ranged from being annoying (hearing everything) or a burden (poor Luisa), to being the reason their lives were destroyed (Bruno), so not quite a gift. Mirabel’s freedom from those restrictive identities allowed her to move freely to help her entire family, which is actually a gift, not just a magic power.
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.
I said the same I agree, notice how in the end the candle disappears and never reappear, its because Mirabel became that candle that sustains the home, the family, and everyone powers. notice how when mirabel lost a little hope because of abuela not having hope in her, the candle started to die out the more mirabel was broken and angry, the house fell apart and everyone lost their gifts, but when she had that hope back, abuela giving that hope as well then everything went back to normal, even better. and the butterflies on the candle and on Maribel clothes is so obvious lol. and Maribel didn't get the gift of her being the candle herself (the source of the magic) when she was young because the clothes she wore had a caterpillar on it, it just wasn't her time that's all for her to show this cause its not as obvious as the other gifts, but whos to say she didn't receive it. when she touched the door knob everything disappearing hinted at her gift to me, its cause it couldn't be seen, hope can't be seen you just need to believe and take action, also her being the source of their magic can't be seen as well lol. her gift isn't by sight its by faith. she had it in her all along. its like the saying faith without action is dead.
Casita responds to Mirabel much the same way it does Abuela (and the strife caused between the two is what caused Casita to split in earnest instead of gradually like it did when Abuela essentially exiled Bruno and became harsher on everyone else following his disappearance.)
Along with Leadership I also think Mirabel recieved a second Gift: she can literally see everyone’s mindscapes. She sees and reacts to every Retelling in “We don’t talk about Bruno,” every single metaphor as if it’s literal in “Surface Pressure” (prompting Luisa to at times pull Mirabel to safety), and in Abuela’s Memory (forget the song title hear; I don’t speak spanish unfortunately) Mirabel is actively shown witnessing the memory and reacting to it as it unfolds…instead of showing her Reaction after the Song Ends and Memory Fades. Mirabel is IN It as an active witness
But as far as why Mirabel didn’t recieve a door initially…well I don’t think her Abuela would’ve reacted well to either of Mirabel’s Gifts made public, OR the Casita feared what these sorts of Gifts would do to Mirabel if they became public to the Encanto and Household. As it was Bruno was shoved away for a somewhat similar gift, Luisa was taken advantage of for every petty little task instead of the Encanto taking care of themselves, and Mirabel’s Mother’s gift no doubt became an excuse for them to not learn some basic first aid and more advanced medicine (tho she’s not shown to be as burdened by the family or encanto like her three daughters are; but I think that’s more due to her age than anything.)
The song about Abuela and Abuelo is, "Dos Oruguitas." It means, "Two Caterpillars."
I love that!!! If that’s the case, then she would be the only one who had a gift after the house collapsed, hence her being THE gift as an extension of the candle.
I disagree with her mom being less burdened. If you notice of the 3 triplets Mirabelle's mom seemed physically like the oldest? Plus her gift was whatever she made would heal. So probably when she was younger she had a lot of responsibilities just like Louise. However she obviously learned how to lessen the burden by having pre-made baked goods to give people she just has to add the final ingredient and voila healing.
@@terrygill5335 Yep! Julieta is the oldest while Bruno is the youngest
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Yeah that’s fair. I just meant that by the time we see the events of Encanto she seems settled, I guess? Like she’s currently Okay
In the song ‘Waiting on a Miracle’ that Mirabel sings, she says she could move the mountains, make new flowers bloom, heal what’s broken…etc. and she does exactly all that. Isabella makes new flowers, she heals her family, the mountain tire in 2 leading her abuela back to where it all began.
She’s basically saying she’d wish she’d get another chance at getting a gift and she wish she could be like her family
Oh wow that's a good point. I like how they made foreshadowing. Even in the song "We don't talk about Bruno" when Dolores said "It's like I can hear him now" it was because he was actually there
She says she WISHES. Also, she said, "I can't move the mountains, flowers, healing, etc."
She actually said "I can't move the mountains, I can't make the flowers bloom, etc."
I actually think Mirabel became the miracle herself. They always touch the candle before opening the door, right? My theory is that Antonio was able to open his door not because of the candle but because of Mirabel. Remember, Mirabel walked Antonio while holding his hands. Also, the cracks were not responding to her family's problems but to her own emotions.
They all hold the candle… and get the “magic” on their hands.. but if you look close.. she whipped the magic of on her dress.
My friend and I thought something similar. Also, if you watch the moment back of Antonio about to reach for the doorknob, you will see Abuela being nervous, but then the camera focuses in on Mirabel, who is standing right behind Abuela. And right after that, Antonio gets his gift.
Yes, you touch on so many can not be missed story lines, and symbolism. There are butterfly's everywhere during the movie. We really needed this video.
I think she always had her door and was magical.The Casita was hers the minute she touched doorknob when she was a child. All the movie you can see her interactions with Casita and when right before candle go out, Casita only responded to her will, not the others. She wanted to grab the candle but lead everyone else out safe at the same time. So Casita forced all of them out but helped her and protected her.
When other children touched doorknob something came out of them to create a room, but Mirable absorbed the power, at that moment when she felt sad the candle flame reacted to her sadness and got weak. Her mood controls the whole power, when she feels abandoned Casita starts to crack, but when she runs to help the others cracks heal. When she rebound with her sister, her power blooms and candle become stronger, but when she argues and accepts she isn't enough for grandma then nothing is enough anymore. At the end in the lake she saw the place was shown in the vision and finally she realized what's need to be done.
Even Mirable staying in nursery is symbolic. She is the connection to the next generation. Unknowingly she even chose her cousin's gift for him, she said you are a big animal guy and there it is, he become an animal guy! Notice that his room is the biggest of all, and he's most well behave and understanding of all too. I think living with Mirable in nursery made him better and that's why Mirable shouldn't live separated therefore no separate room was there for her.
This!!!
Well said!!
You also notice castita didn't give her a special room because it couldn't go in the rooms so it wouldn't be able to be with her anymore. She was also the only one to communicate with the house, like having one on one conversations.
@@vincentknws wow you're right! Casita couldn't control bruno's! Now I can see why Lisa was working out in hallways! Casita only has access to nursery and Abuela's room. 🤔
perfectly written
I just realized, mirabel's "gift" is everything she said in "waiting on a miracle" song
She says "I would move the mountains" and at the end we see her moving away the family's problems which is alot making it a "mountain of problems"
Then the new flowers or smt, she was able to convince isabela that she doesnt need to be perfect and stuff and isabela grew plants she didnt even knew she could grow
"Heal what's broken" she "healed" or rebuilt the broken home and the broken family
Then the "show this family something new", she showed the family that they don't have to always rely on their gifts, but with eachother. Thank you for reading if u read it
So true
When she quarrelled with Grandma the mountains literally moved unveiling the exit from the Encanto
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This is my thought exactly! Finally found someone who has the same thought as me :)
Wow, I’ve never realized that before. That is totally true
There are so many layers to this. Trauma is the overlying message, and how it's passed down. A less obvious layer for me was I saw the Gifts as mental health crutches not blessings, for trauma related issues -- and Mirabel didn't need one. She was the only one who seemed to see the person under the Gift.
Tia Pepa needed help with managing her wild emotions, so the Casita made them visible and palpable, so her family couldn't ignore them. (Though eventually, having them visible made her less stable, since the family didn't have strategies for supporting her.) My husband told me I need to stop yelling "someone get her a therapist!" at the TV.
Luisa's anxiety and hypervigilance for threats resulted in a Gift of super strength. (Though she took on the same approach to physical strength, and ultimately needed reassurance that she had worth beyond her strength.)
Isabella was a people-pleaser who conformed to expectations, and her Gift was to naturally please everyone with grace and beauty. (Eventually she was trapped by the expectations, nearly marrying and having 5 kids just to please others... until through Mirabel she broke through to an unconventional artistry.)
It would be interesting to find out why Antonio got the gift of understanding animals based on this theory. Could it be that Antonio always felt lonely in his family as everyone was so preoccupied with their own stuff?
@@christianstill3252 Only Mirabel and her sisters really get the in-depth treatment. We don't get a deep dive into everyone else, or the hidden things they're struggling with - Antonio with his animal gift, Julietta with her healing, Dolores with her hearing, Camilo shape-shifting... even Bruno we didn't get much directly from his mouth, his song is all about other people's reactions to him.
I think Julieta's and Bruno's gifts make more sense in this context than Pepa's. Julieta wants to "fix what's broken" and though she seems to be well-adjusted, isn't her apron a part of her dress? That could mean she's always "on duty" to clean up a mess and make things better, which can't be much fun. Bruno's gift to see the future makes a lot of sense when the past has been traumatic, right? You'd want to know if another tragedy was coming, or, rather, you'd want assurance that things were going to be ok. This family is really not able to handle the possibility of more disaster, so adios, Bruno. As for the teen boy (whose name I can never remember) he's trying everything he can to please people, to the point where he's lost some of his own identity. I'm thinking of that first scene when he greets people at the party. I think Antonio's gift has something to do with hanging on to childhood because we are introduced to the tiger toy from the nursery and his jungle room with slides and all is paradise for a kid. Delores I can't figure out tho.
I think Dolores’ gift has to do with her always listening to other people’s needs but never her own.
I totally get this. I have a gift...it's a kind of prophecy. My family started calling me, The Family Oracle. They made it seem like I had no worth beyond my gift...nothing else to offer to them or the world. I stopped telling them the things that I could "see" happening in the future. They can suck it.
Mirabel is the door, the casita, and the candle. She is a born leader because of her humility, perseverance, and compassion, and her ability to communicate well with all the others. . These qualities are part of her even without magic, but with them she also can be the most responsible person to cultivate the magic. When she brings together the family, reconciles all of it's parts, and repairs the magic, she also has brought together the entire village held within the mountains of the Encanto.
This is confirmed when she is presented with her own doorknob by the family, and the new house, built by unity due to her own actions, comes to life again, like a second generation miracle.
Every Madrigal family member has an outfit that matches their gift (Dolores with soundwaves, Camilo with chameleons, Luisa with weights, etc...). Mirabel's outfit has butterflies which represent change and hope, yes, but her outfit also contains one thing that represents each family member: flowers, rain clouds, toucans, herbs, and a candle. Even her shoes have some symbolism. Technically her outfit was designed so she could stand out as much as her family, but I also think it represents her *being* the magic of the family. just something i noticed :)
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!
This actually makes sense! when Casita first started to crack, it was when Mirabel was singing about wanting to be noticed and appreciated in the family more. the rest of the family most likely did not see the cracks because they were all too focused on helping out the townsfolk, who rely on the madrigals too much throughout the whole movie.
Yea, they really do. Like, that guy with the donkeys needs to learn how to manage them
I'd also like to point out after Antonio got his powers and everyone went into his room to celebrate and they took a picture without Mirabel and she basically went into a song about how she really isn't okay about not having a special gift like the rest of the family. When the song finished, it showed Casita cracking all of sudden and I think that shows her having that little breakdown because once she tried to show everyone, all the cracks disappeared which most likely displayed Mirabel having hope (or determination) again because she then goes on to figure out why that happened to Casita and I think that really pushes the theory even further that Mirabel IS Casita in human form.
wow
True
I'd like to add how Casita cracked underneath her when they were all having dinner. Like the more people heard her dilemma, the more it cracked. Idk it's hard to explain but I feel u know exactly what I mean.
Yes, this!
Supported by the vision itself. It was a picture of mirabel and the house cracked behind her. Back and forth. Like it’s determined by Mirabel whether the house will fall apart if she feels hopeless, or losing faith in herself. She IS the house.
I personally felt like her gift was connection and empathy. Like whenever she's seeing someone for who they are she's going along on the ride in their "Music Videos". With Isabella she starts out disconnected and can't keep up with her at first until she sees her truly and then she's with her all the way!
I think Mirabel has the same gift as Abuela.
I believe when Abuela dies someday, Mirabel will take over the power of controlling or protecting the Casita, making Abuela's room, hers. The Casita chose Mirabel to be the new head of the family after Abuela will pass away from old age.
I agree.
Not when she dies. Now. In fact the transfer should have happened when Mirabel (whose name is derived from the Latin word mirabilis which means miraculous) opened her door and got her gift. But my theory is Abuela refused to give up control, so the door disappeared. But as Mirabel became dissatisfied with her "lack of a gift", magnified by the celebration over Antonio, she started to tap into her gift, thus causing a tug of war for control between her and Abuela. That is why the cracks formed - including one literally between them - and why the magic faded. But as Abuela learned to give up control, Mirabel was able to take her place, restoring the magic.
I believe she will be the new candle holder to but I also believe that she’s the embodiment of the candle at the same time
@@cryofpaine I think that's very close. I believe Mirabel was supposed to be crowned as co-steward of the power when she received her gift so that Abuela could mentor her as Mirabel's power over the house grew with age. Full control and responsibility for Casita at age five is a bit much to put on a kid's shoulders IMO. Then when she began to enter adulthood (basically present day) Abuela should have completed (or very close to completing) the gradual transition of power to Mirabel. Since Abuela rejected any loss of control, Instead of the transfer happening gradually as Mirabel's power grew, it is just an increasingly stronger pull to yank the power away from Abuela. The stress on the house is too much so before she can forcibly pull the power away, the house crumbles.
The reason Abuela was never the embodiment is because no mater what happened she always held some resentment toward the bringing about of it by losing her husband and because of her resentment it became a chore Mirabel was born knowing what happened possibly sympathetic but she was pure and happy she possessed the qualities to take over
Her door didn’t disappear it just went into her and the house, she was always home because she has the same magic as the candle that mostly stays home, and when the candle started to fade is when Mirabel lost hope, it was like the candle was mirabels soul within it
I agree. But her family making her Doorknob the new FrontDoor was long overdue. Her Abuela literally forced her to stay in the nursery for 20 some years until then. (Mirabel’s age isn’t explicitely stated in the movie, only that she was the “second youngest” of the third generation, but all three sisters look no less than 5 years apart in age from Oldest to Youngest so I don’t get the impression that she’s a teenager, as Isabel and Dolores are old enough to marry)
@@anonymousfellow8879 Mirabel is officially 15 years old. She‘s the second youngest of ALL the grand children, only Antonio is younger than her.
@@anonymousfellow8879 Mirabel is 15, and Dolores is same age with Mirabel
@@annavu3375 actually Dolores is the same age as Isabela. They’re both 22. Camilo’s the one who is the same as Mirabel only a little older
Well technically you saw how she touched it and then wiped her hands on her dress taking off the Miracle off her hands and you saw that Antonio did not do that and his door opened
You were SO CLOSE! But no. The power that created the gift was Alma's intense desire to protect. She lost Pedro, and that intense urge to protect and save her children and family is what created the encanto originally. But as time goes on, she loses sight of that and twists that into something that becomes broken. When you look at the rest of the family, it's clear the kids all went to the doors with some kind of idea in their head what they wanted. But not Mirabel. She only cared about one thing, her family. And that shines through in all that she did. No matter how much they ignored her talents and skills (of which she excelled in many things dancing, singing, seamstress, crafting, playing the accordion, parcor) no matter how badly they treated her, she loved her family so intensely she went through hell and back to save them. Casita knew she loved the family enough to power the miracle. Casita didn't give her a gift, instead Casita CHOSE her to be the next head of the family. Note she is the only one in the entire family, including Alma, that actively TALKS to Casita. Alma ORDERS Casita, Mirabel treats Casita like a member of the family. This is clearly evident by the door to the house at the end where Mirabel is standing at the forefront. She will power the Casita, instead of through fear and the intense desire to protect, but through unconditional and whole hearted love.
I'm with you on this one, Mirabel seems like the only one besides Alma who could converse with Casita and understand Casita as well. Not even Alma seems to understand Casita cause she only orders Casita around and Casita do as they're told by Alma but with Mirabel Casita didn't hesitate to show their feelings. And I do get the deal with how what was in Mirabel's mind when she was a little and about to get her gifts is to make the Madrigals proud so she didn't get visible gifts because she doesn't need any help, her parents love her unconditionally and so do her family. What defines their gifts are what they desire the most I think. Alma got what she desired the most at the time, a place to shelter her and her babies. And to further prove this theory, Antonio is an 'animal guy' based on what Mirabel said even before he got his gift and he is granted the gift to communicate with the animals right after. And not only that, he got stuffed cheetah from Mirabel and when he got his gift there's a cheetah that's so close to him and became his ride whenever he goes.
@@Great290599 EXACTLY!!!!
My interpretation is sort of a combination of yours and Mirabel having magic.
Think of how Antonio has an affinity for animals and the magical ability to communicate with them. Pepa has an affinity for weather and it's directly linked to her emotions, Isabella's affinity for nature in the form of plants which are, again, expressive of what she wants to present (gorgeous flowers with perfect petals when she's presenting as perfect, as Abuela expects, but then creating new and unusual things when she allowed herself to express what she was really feeling).
Mirabel's affinity is for her family and her home. Her family members that are in need of support just open up to her when she gives them the opportunity, their facades of strength and perfection dissolve when Mirabel lets them open up. And, like Antonio's ability to communicate with animals in a way no one else is able to or can understand, Mirabel is able to communicate with Casita and understand what it's saying when it communicates with her in like kind. Casita doesn't emote when interacting with anyone else, only with Mirabel. To everyone else, Casita is a thing, right? A shelter, a tool, an assistant, moving things where they're needed, turning the floor into a treadmill for Luisa. But Mirabel's bond with Casita is... really quite magical in its nature. Mirabel and Casita are friends, in the beginning of, "The Family Madrigal," Casita eagerly plays along with Mirabel, creating music for her song, and Mirabel is the only one to wave goodbye to Casita as the family heads into town.
And, along with being the next head of the family, I also think part of the reason Mirabel didn't get a separate magical room dedicated to an ability, is because Casita IS the magical room dedicated to her ability, because her ability is tied to her bond with Casita. The other relatives, the rooms that we saw in the movie (Bruno's tower and Isabella and Antonio's rooms) are like pocket dimensions. They're not really IN the house, they're their own little worlds, and the door is like a portal into them. If Mirabel had been given a room like these, she would have been separated from Casita and not able to express her gift.
But, exactly as you said, her bond with and love for her family is her part of the miracle, her role in la Familia Madrigal.
that's a lot of words LOL!
"But no." Lmao
The song at the end literally says "The miracle is you" and " you're the real gift kid, let us in" Mirabel is the miracle and most powerful. ♥️
I think it isn’t just hope Mirabel received, but also the gift of empathy. She seems to feel more deeply than the other Madrigals in general, but also sees the things the others ignore, miss, or shove aside. The other characters open up to her readily, even about the things they would never tell anyone else, and she has a talent for sniffing out when somebody is hiding something. In a manner of speaking, even La Casita confides in her by showing her the spreading cracks. Not even Julietta is aware that something is amiss with her beloved daughters, whereas Mirabel got them to reveal their hidden truths before they hit the crisis point the way she did in the “Waiting on a Miracle” sequence. I mean, none of the other Madrigals realized she wasn’t in the first picture, despite both of Mirabel’s parents being fully aware of how difficult Antonio’s special night would be for her. Mirabel not only sussed out Antonio, Luisa, and Isabela’s worries, but she was able to connect with Bruno, the uncle she only barely remembered, and find out why he left and what was going on with him in less than ten minutes after meeting him, while he was being evasive and fidgety. I don’t think even Dolores knew why he was there, despite hearing him all the time.
Hope is a wonderful gift, but it goes hand in hand with empathy. After all, if you can’t understand somebody, how are you supposed to give them hope in the first place?
Right! She is like a hope, when Luisa said she was tired and Maribel noticed, Luisa got weaker to REST, when Isabella says she didn't want to be perfect, a new creation appears, When Bruno confessed he loved his family to Mirabel, he got reunited with them at the end!! AND IT ALL ADDS UP , When Maribel tells Luisa to rest, tells Isabella she DOESN'T need to be perfect, And PROMISES Bruno he will be back with his family
For those who don’t want to watch their theory is that Mirabel is the embodiment of the candle and an extension of the magic and also (I think) that she gives people hope.
ur awesome
You are the true MVP, I almost fell asleep
This makes so much sense! The theory that Mirabel is the "miracle" and the candle that gives everyone powers is, I think, hinted when she sang "Waiting on a Miracle". In the song, when she was singing the things she would do for her family, she said:
I would move the mountains
Make new trees and flowers grow
Someone please just let me know, where do I go?
I am waiting on a miracle, a miracle
I would heal what's broken
Show this family something new
Who I am inside, so what can I do?
I'm sick of waiting on a miracle, so here I go
I am ready
Come on, I'm ready
I've been patient, and steadfast, and steady
Bless me now as you blessed us all those years ago
When you gave us a miracle
If you listen closely, you can already see that what Mirabel sang became the ending.
She moved the mountains when she was angry. She made new trees and flowers grow by comforting Isabela. She healed her broken family. She showed them something new. And she was able to do all that because she IS the miracle/candle herself. When she sang "I'm sick of waiting on a miracle, so here I go. I am ready", that's when she finally took on her power: the magic that powers the Madrigals. Although I do think that she had been gifted this power since she was young (by wiping the power off of the candle and to her dress--eventually transferring it to herself), it was only after she sang Waiting on a Miracle did she fully accept this responsibility.
Beautifully said and i love how you included the lyrics to prove what you meant and now i see it too so thank you
I always thought that whilst her gift was almost like being chosen by casita, as she’s the only one that can utilise and fully understand and communicate w it, as well as her being the glue that kept the family together, that she was almost meant to be a vessel of sorts. The candle went out in her hands and I saw that as the magic choosing her to hold it until a new casita was built so that it never truly went out. The only one without powers would have enough space to store all of it yk? But reading all the comments about being the next matriarch as well makes a lot of sense! She was a trailblazer and managed to create a brand new system, healing old wounds and creating a better dynamic, seems like she was always meant to lead.