Childhood nightmares: CAROLINE
written by MMA Mendoza, WM Paragayo, A Matela, JL Yongco (mintrhyleunoia)
"Caroline" is a fantasy/thriller stop-motion movie that was released on 2009. Henry Selickbased has suggested that the movie was for brave children of any age. The film depicts an adventurous girl named Coraline Jones finding an idealized parallel world behind a secret door in her new home, unaware that the alternative world contains a dark and sinister secret. The story started when Coraline and her parents moved into their new house. Coraline doesn't seem to like the place since it's old and dirty and she also feels neglected by her busy parents so she finds a way to make herself entertained by exploring the new house. There she finds a tiny door whom later on would give her the path to parrallel reality. The other world seems like a dream come true but there was also a constant sense of danger in the air. It's not truly the usually animation movie for kids because there are some intense visual and offbeat pacing that is not really a childrens show.
Caroline, directed by Henry Selick made such an oustanding achievement in whating to relay a message to the audience, and again combines his mastery of stop-motion and other animation with 3-D. The ideal audience for this film would be admirers of film art itself, assuming such people exist. Selick creates an entirely original look and feel, uses the freedom of animation to elongate his characters into skeletal spectres looming over poor Coraline. Her new friend, Wybie (Robert Bailey Jr.), is a young hunchback whose full name is Wyborn, and it doesn't take Coraline long to wonder his name behind it. The Other Mother and Father (voices of Teri Hatcher and John Hodgman, who are also Father and Mother) essentially want to steal Coraline from her real but distracted parents and turn her into some kind of a Stepford daughter. Their house, which looks like Coraline's own, has two old ladies (Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French) in the basement, boarders who seem in retirement from subtly hinted careers in the adult-entertainment industry. The upstairs boarder is Mr. Bobinsky (Ian McShane), a sometime vaudevillian who has a troupe of trained mice. One of the rooms of the house has insects bigger than Coraline who act as living furniture. I admire the film mostly because it is good to look at. Selick is as unconventional in his imagery as Gaiman is in his writing, and this is a movie for people who know and care about drawing, caricature, grotesquerie and the far shores of storytelling.
In short, people might care little about a fantasy, little indeed about this story, and still admire the artistry of it all, including an insidious score by Bruno Coulais, which doesn't pound at us like many horror scores, but gets under our psychic fingernails. âCoralineâ is a remarkable feat of imagination, a magical tale with a genuinely sinister edge. The story of an 11-year-old girlâs adventures in an alternate universe, âCoralineâ comes by its disturbing qualities honestly, through the efforts of writer-director Henry Selick and novelist Neil Gaiman. It may be rated PG, but it is more suitable for adults than the very small among us. Coraline Jones, the filmâs feisty heroine (expertly voiced by Dakota Fanning), is introduced with a crisis on her hands. She and her unnamed parents ( Teri Hatcher and John Hodgman) have moved from Michigan to dark and rainy Ashland, Ore., taking up rooms in a large Victorian called the Pink Palace, where Coraline is bored.
This scene shows the large scale reason on how the story goes because her parents are oblivious to her existence whenever she tries to get their attention. Even the appearance of a local boy named Wybie ( Robert Bailey Jr.) doesnât help. So Coraline is more than delighted when she discovers a hidden door in the house that opens onto a rabbit hole that leads down to a parallel world. There she meets her Other Mother and her Other Father, the attentive, devoted parents sheâs always wanted. They look and sound like her real parents, with one unsettling exception: Their active eyes have been replaced by large black buttons. Everything in this other world is livelier and more exotic than the one upstairs. Even Coralineâs neighbors, the furtive acrobat known as the Amazing Bobinsky ( Ian McShane) and the retired actresses called Miss Spink and Miss Forcible (the British comedy team of Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French) are much wilder and crazier than in the real world. Itâs in this thrilling other world that the combination of stop-motion and 3-D really comes into its own.
A jumping mouse circus has 61 mice on-screen (and took 66 days to animate), and an entire audience of Scottie dogs, 248 strong, watches a theatrical performance. Itâs impossible not to be impressed. The more wonderful this world becomes, the more the Other Mother pressures Coraline to stay forever, to trade in her eyes for buttons. It becomes harder and harder for the girl to return to her real home, and the entire experience turns slowly but inexorably into the kind of nightmare you canât wake up from no matter how hard you try. Advised by a self-possessed talking cat ( Keith David), Coraline has to realize what is important in life and fight to keep herself and her family alive.
Nightmare that thrilled me to goosebumps are the words that I could describe. it took me long nights to finally have a good sleep. however, this movie gives such an impact to parents and to children as well. Fear is natural component of the creative yet dreadful themes that the movie gives. Caroline is a whimsical film that enjoys that touch of horror and fine art of puppets and stop motion devices. The movie does really give off a creepy vibe but it does not go beyond than the book. The book hides the most disturbing full story which speculates a lot of theories about an ancient monster and the other mother.
Neil Gaiman has written the most eye popping story of horror yet creatively done. This is not recommended for children but it is certainly worth it to watch.
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