ABOUT
The film, set in Scotland Middle Ages, in the realm of the clan Dun Broch, has as its protagonist Princess Merida, who tells his story in first person.
On his sixth birthday, Merida receives a gift from his father King Fergus an arc , although his mother, Queen Elinor, disagrees.While it is in the forest to retrieve the arrow from her previously shot, Merida see the wisps, magical creatures of the woods. After returning from their parents, the three are attacked by the evil bear black Mor'du, the father faces to give time to Merida and Elinor to escape. During the fight, the beast and swallows severs leg of Fergus, which will then be replaced with a wooden one. Ten years later, Merida is a sweet girl, courageous, rebellious and dreamer, became sister of three pestiferous twins. It also became arciera infallible and always carries with it the bow given to her by her father when she was a child.
One evening, Merida is informed by the mother that the three chiefs of the clan that his father governs each present their first-born as a pretender to her hand. They will participate in the games and the winner will get engaged to Merida. The girl is very upset, but his mother, who does not accept brusque and not gifts of the girl and shoot continuously, does not listen and insists that it is his duty to accept the tradition and the suitors. Upon arrival of the three clans, Elinor announces the upcoming opening of the games. When the mother says that only the "firstborn" of the noble families can compete, Merida decides to participate to win his own hand. Since it is her choice of the discipline in which the suitors must compete, Merida chooses archery, a discipline in which he excels. Merida fact hits all targets, humiliating the suitors, and insulting the leaders of the clan and the mother. During the fight that followed, Merida size tapestry made by his mother, who is their family, and Elinor, hurt and angry, throws the arc of Merida in the fire (although then regrets it immediately).
Merida runs away into the forest, where he sees the wisps appear again. Following them, comes into the shop of an old carver, who is actually a witch . In exchange for his pendant, Merida asks the old woman cast a spell that is able to change his mother and then his own destiny. The witch assures her that will change the fate of Merida, and then prepares a sweet magic, which must be eaten by the mother, but forget to tell her how the mother of Merida will change with the spell. After returning to the castle, Merida makes eating the sweet magic to the mother. Unexpectedly, Elinor turns into a bear. Having escaped from the castle, mother and daughter seek the witch, but he left the hut where he lived. From a message left for her Merida discovers that he has only two days left to Elinor return to his human form, otherwise the spell will become permanent. The witch, being good, however, also suggests a way to break the spell: mend the rift that pride has caused.
The next morning, Merida and Elinor go to the river to catch fish. During the time we spent together, the two learn to know and have fun. Elinor, however, began to show the first signs that the spell is turning completely and attacks Merida, while stopping in time.Shortly thereafter reappear wisps. Following them, Merida and her mother come to a cave, actually a throne room. Here Merida understands that the story that her mother always told (one of four brothers of whom the eldest, power-hungry, end up going to war with the other, and to bring to ruin his kingdom) is reality, and that the first-born is been transformed in the bear Mor'du. The bear, hidden among the ruins of the throne room, attacks mother and daughter, who manage to get to safety.
Merida is assumed that the tear which the witch spoke both the tear in the tapestry of his mother. They return to the castle and then enter it in secret, finding the clan in a fist fight between them in the throne room. Merida, in an attempt to distract the audience to get to his mother's room of the tapestry, unable to reconcile the clans and convince the leaders to leave the principles firstborn free to marry whom they wish. Once reconciled clans, Merida and the bear Elinor took refuge in the room, where they try to repair the tear in the tapestry. Unfortunately arrives Fergus, who, seeing the torn clothes of Elinor and the bear, he believes that his wife was killed by the latter and the attacks, although Merida seeks to clarify the situation. Elinor flees into the woods being chased by her husband and his men, while Merida is locked in her room.
Thanks to the three brothers (also turned into teddy bears because they ate the sweet magic) and having sewed up the tapestry, Merida reaches the forest where his father, accompanied by the warriors of the clan, surrounded the mother, there can avoid mother's death at the hands of his father, defending it to the hilt. Soon after, however Mor'du attacks them. Elinor fight with him and in the end it is the latter triumphed, killing Mor'du. The spirit of the evil bear finds peace from man and becomes a ghost-wisp, different from others in the afterlife. Despite the tapestry is intact, the bear does not reverts to Elinor. Merida then embraces his mother and tells her that the rivorrebbe as before, and that she is grateful for all the times that she was next. Finally, claims to love her. This was the tear to heal, not that of the tapestry, so Elinor finally back human, even the three bear cubs again become lively children and run into the arms of dad Fergus. In the end, the lord and their clan return home while Merida and Elinor ride together in the woods, finally riappacificate, with Merida who will be queen and heir single.
At the end of the credits there is an additional scene in which the talking raven, helping the witch, delivery in the castle all the sculptures in wood that Merida had bought together spell.
