Coraline looking through the little doorway past the camera in awe
Summary Coraline made a strong impression on me when I first saw it. I would've been 11, the same age as the protagonist, flipping channels one weekend before the rest of my family was awake and encountering it already underway. I can't remember exactly where I jumped in, except I know I saw Coraline's first journey through the little door. The tunnel unfurled for her, wonderfully aglow, and I was as hooked as she was.
She soon finds herself drawn through that little door, into a version of her life filled with wonder. The Other Mother waits for her there, as do the Other Father, the Other Wybie, and the Other Neighbors. They smile at her, dote on her, and do their best to provide an answer to each of her discontents. But however pretty the packaging, the buttons they all have in place of eyes keep them at a distance from her.
This movie is very deliberately paced. It doesn't rush us to the Other World, nor does it hurry to have that dreamy place crumble into a nightmare. There are a few practical reasons for this. It allows us to take in fully how the two worlds mirror each other, for example; but perhaps most importantly, it gives the film its emotional texture.
Is Coraline Cinema's Savviest Use Of Stop-Motion? It's certainly a perfect match for this story This is why I think of Coraline as one of cinema's best unions of form and content. Director Henry Selick deploys stop-motion animation not just for its look, but its feel. In the real world, he draws on the form's inherent physicality. Like live-action, stop-motion materials exist and are photographed in the physical world.
Related 10 Great Stop-Motion Horror Movies With Wendell & Wild and Del Toro's Pinnochio coming out soon, it's time to remember other great stop-motion horror movies. Coraline Practically Teaches Its Audience How To Watch Horror Movies After seeing it, you might find yourself falling in love with them And so are we. Selick takes a show-don't-tell approach to this story where he can, and the visual clarity of the direction means that we learn the same way Coraline does. This film may want to scare us, but it also strives to make us as observant and inquisitive as its heroine.
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