oh how I hated Coraline
Nov. 21st, 2009 06:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serynI knew I'd had a topic but it flew clean out of my mind. One of my Ravelry friends faved a mitten called Coraline. It's got a cat on.
I watched that movie. Coraline.
What complete and utter dreck.
People who don't want children should not have them. People who do not intend to feed their children should have their children taken away. Children who look in the refrigerator and see the animated version of cobwebs and who then fantasize about chicken are being mistreated. (with some exceptions)
People with odd names get used to it.
Then there was the weirdness of Wybie saying he wasn't allowed in the main house and his grandmother's voice at the end sounding ethnically African. I realize the boy wasn't supposed to go there because it's dangerous, but it sure sounded like a throwback to slavery to me.
Why did people who hate gardening write books on it?
Orange is a stupid color for gloves.
But mostly we're shown how remarkably strange the real world is and then we're shown a similarly strange world and are expected to see the foreshadowing of evil. To me it seemed like Coraline might have wanted to look behind door number 3.
There was more than a little of the incomprehensibility of Dorothy's choice in Coraline's. Her regular life was one of passive evil. The story was about the seductiveness of active evil and her attempts to escape it after realizing. But I don't understand why she didn't just keep going.
I did NOT like Coraline. Except for a tiny segment of it where Coraline realizes the fantasy world is evil because it forces people to appear happy regardless. I would like that for my real world life. If you're happy all the time, then there's something really seriously wrong with you... but the world doesn't work like that. If you're not smiling and happy appearing, then you're not welcome. Maybe this is the button world and it's a full of puppets whose strings are pulled by an evil spider goddess. That would, actually, make a lot of sense. It would be depressing as all get out though.
I watched that movie. Coraline.
What complete and utter dreck.
People who don't want children should not have them. People who do not intend to feed their children should have their children taken away. Children who look in the refrigerator and see the animated version of cobwebs and who then fantasize about chicken are being mistreated. (with some exceptions)
People with odd names get used to it.
Then there was the weirdness of Wybie saying he wasn't allowed in the main house and his grandmother's voice at the end sounding ethnically African. I realize the boy wasn't supposed to go there because it's dangerous, but it sure sounded like a throwback to slavery to me.
Why did people who hate gardening write books on it?
Orange is a stupid color for gloves.
But mostly we're shown how remarkably strange the real world is and then we're shown a similarly strange world and are expected to see the foreshadowing of evil. To me it seemed like Coraline might have wanted to look behind door number 3.
There was more than a little of the incomprehensibility of Dorothy's choice in Coraline's. Her regular life was one of passive evil. The story was about the seductiveness of active evil and her attempts to escape it after realizing. But I don't understand why she didn't just keep going.
I did NOT like Coraline. Except for a tiny segment of it where Coraline realizes the fantasy world is evil because it forces people to appear happy regardless. I would like that for my real world life. If you're happy all the time, then there's something really seriously wrong with you... but the world doesn't work like that. If you're not smiling and happy appearing, then you're not welcome. Maybe this is the button world and it's a full of puppets whose strings are pulled by an evil spider goddess. That would, actually, make a lot of sense. It would be depressing as all get out though.
