Why don’t her family give her a normal bedroom even if she isn’t “gifted”?
The Casita gives the rooms, not the family, besides, one of the themes of the movie is Alma forgetting the people are not just their gifts, to Alma, Mirabel barely existed as she had no gift.
What do they actually do for the town?
One makes flowers grow, one makes rain to grow crops, one helps to build houses, one entertains the children, one heals any injuries, Abuela Alma is like the mayor etc.
What actually happened at the river?
The two were fleeing their homes with their 3 children, joined by survivors. They were being pursued by the soldiers on horse back that had burned their village down. To give Alma and his children chance to escape, he turned to face down the soldiers, but they killed him. Alma felt such deep grief and sorrow that the candle she carried became the miracle, it exploded and forced the soldiers back, then grew high mountains around them to protect them.
I’ve watched it twice and still can’t work it out have I missed a bit when the candle comes out of the water?
The candle didn't come out of the water. Alma was carrying it.
Why did everyone turn on Bruno just because it rained on the sisters wedding?
They believed he was causing the I'll effects of his visions, when really he was just seeing the future. ("He told me my fish would die and the next day, dead..." Bruno was blamed as the cause, when really he just saw it happen.)
Jeez I’d be living in the walls if my family were that touchy!
Bruno living in the walls is actually a huge hint to the core of the story. The eldest male, patching the cracks of the family...
It’s just an insane story it makes no sense.
I understood it.
Here to help, the lunch pin of the movie, the song playing as Abuela Alma tells Mirabel what happened in the past.
Two oruguitas
Against the weather
The wind grows colder
But they're together
They hold each other
No way of knowing
They're all they have for shelter
And something inside them is growing
They long to stay together
But something inside them is growing
Ay, oruguitas
Don't you hold on too tight
Both of you know
It's your time to grow
To fall apart, to reunite
Wonders await you
Just on the other side
Trust they'll be there
And start to prepare
The way for tomorrow
Ay, oruguitas
Don't you hold on too tight
Both of you know
It's your time to grow
To fall apart, to reunite
Wonders await you
Just on the other side
Trust they'll be there
Start to prepare
The way for tomorrow
Two oruguitas
Cocooned and waiting
Each in their own world
Anticipating
What happens after
The rearranging?
And so afraid of change
In a world that never stops changing
So let the walls come down
The world will never stop changing
(Never stop changing)
(Never stop changing)
(Never stop changing)
Ay, mariposas
Don't you hold on too tight
Both of you know
It's your time to go
To fly apart, to reunite
Wonders surround you
Just let the walls come down
Don't look behind you
Fly till you find
Your way toward tomorrow
Ay, mariposas
Don't you hold on too tight
Both of you know
It's your time to go
To fly apart, to reunite
Wonders surround you
Just let the walls come down
Don't look behind you
Fly till you find
Your way toward tomorrow
Ay, mariposas
Don't you hold on too tight
Both of you know
It's your time to go
To fly apart, to reunite
Wonders surround you
Just let the walls come down
Don't look behind you
Fly till you find
Your way toward tomorrow