Coraline

[james_davis_nicoll]

Huh. I see that in the book

SPOILERS



Coraline saves herself with cunning and pluck. In the movie, she gets saved by the boy next door, a character I do not think exists in the book.

The 3D option gave me stabbing pains in my right eye within about five minutes so we watched the 2D version.

Comments

[andrewducker]

Interesting. I didn't see either the Other Father as a parent figure at all.

[rosefox]

My sense of it was that by sacrificing himself, he paradoxically proved his genuine suitability for parenting and longing to be a real father, as opposed to the Other Mother, who was purely psychopathic in her desire to obtain children.