As it is, the caring, can bake nice roasted chicken, 'other' mother of Coraline is gradually exposed to be eating up the lives of the children she captured.
the other mother wanted Coraline to stay with her forever. HOW CAN?!!!!! she can rot and die for all she want. but she cannot grab Coraline's soul!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
If it's wrong, it's wrong. It's just wrong. The other mother can never replace Coraline's 'real' mother. As it is, the other mother was the greatest deception. while she disguised to look like Coraline's mother, she was really a (skinny scrawny) spider (?!). spidery fingers. eews. that wanted to suck her soul.
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liked how the story unfold of the parallel worlds.
how coraline's parents were so how oblivion to her.
pushed to the other world.
the choo choo gravy train, the father who can play piano keyboard (instead of computer keyboard) and does gardening, the beauty of a garden designed verily as Coraline herself. circus that had rats spelling her name. everything seemed to be tailor-made. Just for Coraline. charming la~
and yet.
everything that charmed her hit back. the garden laid traps of pitcher plants and other
biting/meat-eating plants (this sounds wrong... :S) the rats were also a disguise. not so cute now. all the furniture turned into disgusting creepie crawlies.
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another episode from the movie...
notice that the parents are patching a catalogue of "garden life" and yet their garden is a total waste. the catalogue photos and all is then just a fake, a disguise in a more trivial sense.
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i think of how this world seems beautiful at many dimensions. all the instant gratifications. how it keeps us happy and charmed. yet instant gratifications last but for that instant (or several few more instants when u think back upon it). it's temporal, sad to say. all things will not only fade away one day, but they will be destroyed.
the other mother really reminds me of the irritating devil who just wants to grab everybody to hell with him. away from our real home in heaven. with our heavenly Father. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, devil. get lost.
on a literal note...
before i went to aust, i looked through jordan's photos as he went just a
few weeks before me. there was this photo of the Erskine waterfalls, the water
was captured to be soft as silk. i was amazed. this and other photos, in a way
too nice to be true. i asked him, is the real place nicer or the photos nicer?
(as i did not want to raise my expectations too high only to be disappointed) he
revealed to me that the real place actually is not as nice... the photos need to
use some techniques to shoot or zeng afterwards then will look like that...
*burst hopes*
sometimes i really don't know what remains real in this world.
less literally, there are thoughts that can be disguised to 'psycho' us to believe in a lie. how we can somehow tweak the lie to be a half-lie and eventually accept it to be a truth.
Beware the perfect disguise, don't let it eat up ur soul.
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i thot the button eyes were impactful and symbolic. eyes is often referred to as the window to the soul. no eye, no soul, become ghost. the button eye helped to add an evil aura to the fantasy movie.
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all that said, as a fantasy movie, it scored. i'm so charmed :D the rats were even at points cute. there were many surprises. the button eyes were itself one of the main reason that pulled me to the catch it in the theatres :)
the sets were really beautifully awesome. there were so much details. very well designed.
it scored even more as a 3D movie!!! i loved the depths of everything. the tunnel. the web. oh the web!!! so nice. i loved how things were occasionally shifted to coraline's aspects too. the motions were really well done too. it was established even in the first few moments when wybie zoomed over and a few other times. the most memorable was when the guy just spun around. wa... chio~
in this aspect, it beat Up hands down. i rem there were times during Up when i feel that there's 3d but taking off the specs, there were zero blurness. there's hardly any diff btn 2d and 3d. the only 3d i rem in Up was the clouds.. which doesn't really amount to anything much. quite a disappointment.
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i suspect i asked the wrong person to watch the movie with when Gene wanted to leave when there were still 3D effects during the credits! ahhs. if usually want to leave during credits actually i'm okay (reluctantly)... but there's still nice 3D! like of the dogs playing with the eye and the eye bouncing off the lines! it's so synced with the credits... must watch la :P
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