After the argument which causes Casita to cave in, Julieta tells Mirabel to stay put as she checks on Pepa. When Julieta returns, Mirabel has run away, and the family searches the mountains for her.
The second generation aren’t exactly abusive, but there’s generational trauma.
Grandma had really bad trauma, and her reactions to that ripple through the generations so they all kinda have trauma responses.
The grandma is emotionally abusive, unintentionally, but still not an excuse. So the parents aren’t abusive but they follow her rules still, which negatively impacts the third generation.
When Mirabel tells her grandmother that the magic of the family is in danger she dismisses it and loudly proclaims that everything is fine and Mirabel should "stop". Later is revealed that the grandmother already knew that what Mirabel was saying is true.
Sort of? There’s no like, chronically depressed animals but several animals such as donkeys and toucans express emotions throughout the film. Rarely sad tbh, sometimes a bit nervous.
Mirabel cuts her hand on a piece of shrapnel. There is a clear blood red line. The next scene her mother cures her hand and you don’t see it again. it should be easy to shut your eyes when you see her touch the shrapnel but you likely will see it. Again, it’s not for long though. Also Mirabel’s dad gets stung by bees, including on the hands, and they swell up. It’s comedic, and cured quickly just like with Mirabel.
There are two flashback sequences which show the moments leading up to a young father being murdered by men on horseback with machetes. The murder itself is not shown explicitly as it cuts to another character reacting instead. However, in the second flashback, the wife/mother’s pain and grief while holding her infant triplets as her husband is cut down is very realistic and heartbreaking.
In reference to Tadyr's comment, the character in question is supposed to get engaged to someone her abuela approves of, but in deleted scenes she has a secret boyfriend/ male love interest. There's no cheating because she and the almost-fiancé aren't in a relationship: everyone just assumes they will be, and she's afraid to disappoint them.
(Spoilers) Mirabel enters a secret tunnel in the house, everything goes dark and in a flash of light Bruno shows up. He's not an evil character, but the scene is definitely a jumpscare
One of the characters has the power to heal people with food, and a line of sick and injured folks is shown receiving food from her. They all recover after eating the food.
Bruno is shown to have OCD symptoms (real ones about compulsions and obsessions, eg knocking on wood, not the “I’m so ocd haha I tidied my wardrobe” stuff, real symptoms!). It’s also implied Abuela may have PTSD or a similar illness due to intense trauma (watching her husband die) Also some people hsve pointed out Pepa’s mood swings imply a personality disorder or bipolar disorder.
One character is neurodivergent-coded. His family misrepresents him as malicious and creepy, but he turns out to be a good person, and his family later makes up with him.
There’s a character with neurodivergent traits who is ostracized by his family but not specifically because of his neurodivergent traits. However, his family does refer to him as weird and creepy and references his way of speaking (muttering, mumbling…) as a negative.
————————— Edit to address other commenter: Being superstitious and neurodivergent are not mutually exclusive. Bruno’s superstitious rituals are incidental to the MANY other neurodivergent traits he has. I don’t necessarily think he’s specifically autistic (which is why I used “neurodivergent” instead of “autistic”) but there’s enough there for plenty of us to identify with him. I think it’s important to err on the side of caution and warn folks if there’s even a small chance they could be triggered by a storyline.
In musical numbers and visions, there’s unrealistic scene/time changes and hallucination-like imagery.
So there’s things that happen that aren’t happening really, but it’s like a music video or imagination rather than a dream or unclear reality.
Not in the movie, but in a deleted scene, a character talks about how another character tells his mother that he wants to die after she says that he is dead to her.
One of the core themes of the movie is inter generational trauma, such as Abuela regarding the civil war that caused her family to flee their village and the death of her husband
There are scenes can be interpret as metaphors for ableism (though it's potrayed as wrong) - Mirabel is sometimes mocked, excluded and feels useless because she doesn't have any powers and Bruno is completely ostracized for having a "gift" that is completely fine on its own but feels like an inconvenience for others. Both characters get happy endings, though.
Race-wise: everyone is Colombian and the producers hired a Latino/Latina/Latine cast, and a group of people from Columbia (the Colombian cultural trust) to make sure Colombian culture was accurately represented. Disability wise: the only disabilities are that Mirabel wears glasses, Bruno has OCD and autism traits, and Mirabel’s dad has traits of dyspraxia. Mirabel’s fine, Bruno is ostracised partially because of his neurodivergence, and Mirabel’s dad is used as comedy. LGBT wise: the closest you get to LGBT is a shapeshifter who can become anyone of any gender.
There’s a civil war scene, which could potentially imply a religious or political conflict, but other than that and a few superstitious characters that’s it.
Very briefly, the Madrigal’s home is destroyed. It is almost immediately rebuilt in a musical montage. We (the audience) do not not see where or how the Madrigals are housed while the Casita is being rebuilt.
Also, a character is ostracized by his family and lives in the walls for years. Technically he is sheltered but he only gets by stealing scraps of food and other discarded goods.
No gun violence but I’m not sure where else to put this... In the beginning and near the end of the film, there are two flashbacks which show a village being terrorized by violent maurauders and the villagers are forced to flee as the village burns behind them. They are then chased down by the attackers. The film shows the moments leading up to a young father being murdered by men on horseback with machetes. Nothing is shown explicitly and it’s done in a sorta vague “storytelling” way, but the grief is very realistic and the whole thing might be triggering for folks who lived through La Violencia specifically or even something similar. My brother (a former refugee from El Salvador) had to leave the room for a few minutes after the second flashback.
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