#hector rivera

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hi friends. i have recently become very very obsessed with coco (2017). if anyone else wants to cry over héctor and imelda, lmk.

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Hector’s internalized hatred of music is so tragic 😭 he loved it so much, he left home to pursue it! But it robbed him of his wife and daughter and cost him his life (literally and figuratively)!

And now he looks at Miguel, this young, passionate, driven musician willing to defy his family for music…and he sees himself. He sees all he used to be, all his hopes…all his mistakes. That’s what he really hates tbh.

He claims to hate music, but really he hates himself (much like Imelda, who (allegedly/she claims) also hates Hector and similarly projects that onto music). He’s trying to warn Miguel off the path of becoming him. And that just breaks my heart 😭

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Elena is such an interesting character to me. She’s so strict about the music ban, and one of my besties mentioned that she’s likely even more strict about it than Imelda probably was. I was inclined to disagree, but…the more I think about it, the more I actually agree.

Because here’s the thing, right: Imelda believed Hector abandoned them and never came back, and she associated music with him, and that hurt so badly that she banned music forever. But she also loves music! This is canon! Even in the movie, she talks about her (allegedly former) love of music with such passion, she sings La Llorona with so much heart and emotion. She loves music, even after Hector leaves—part of her pain comes from the fact that she loves music, and she hates that she does, because she associates it with Hector, who hurt her. It’s complicated! imo she wouldn’t snap at those who played music, she’d just hide away from it (though she would 100% snap at anyone who played Ernesto’s music, recognizing it as a bastardized version of Hector’s…which would strengthen her belief even more that he sold his soul to music and abandoned her metaphorically, not just literally). It’s Hector she hates for decades, and though she tries to hate music, I don’t think she ever really succeeds.

Coco would go along with the ban, because ofc she’s also hurt, and angry for herself and her mamá. But she also still loves her papá, and she loves music, and she still deep down believes he will come home and fix everything (even in the movie, dementia-ailed Coco keeps calling out for her papá, and she still has his letters 🥺 she is defined by her love for/faith in her papá), so I don’t think she was strict about the ban or as invested in it as Imelda or Elena.

And Elena…well. She’s Imelda’s granddaughter, she’s Coco’s daughter. She’s the first person (other than Julio) to learn about Hector without ever meeting him. The story that Miguel tells about Hector, Imelda, and Coco in the beginning of the movie? That is the story that Elena tells, possibly even the one she heard growing up. It’s not entirely true, but it’s the story of a woman who saw her mother and grandmother’s pain and dedicated herself to the music ban to avenge their pain. She couldn’t go after her grandfather, after all, so enforcing the ban is the next best thing. That’s why she’s so strict and fierce about it, that’s (part of) why she smashes Ernesto’s guitar.

Not enough people talk about Elena Rivera, and that is a mf SHAME

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Daily Miraguel meme

Héctor watching his grandson's flirting skills.

Miguel trying to act cool around her: Hey, hermosa

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Bracelets I made for My Coco Characters

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#nightcourt ←

[mirrorofliterature]

the problem of finding the love of your life is that you may not be the love of his life.

oh, sure, he may tell you otherwise, marry you young and dote on your only child, a girl, but blooms wither and marriages wilt.

and now he's left you, left you, and your heart -

it cannot recover.

so you don't recover.

you ban music from your life instead, throw everything into providing for your daughter.

you don't think about him.

he's clearly forgotten all about you.

but.

then it turns out you never had the full story.

a lifetime later, you tell his murderer he is the love of your life.

still true, no matter how often you wished it was not.

and maybe.

maybe, you're the love of his life, too.

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you know whats crazy is i was miguels age when i first watched coco and now im the age imelda was when she HAD coco and when the second movie comes out i will be the age hector was when he died