It's not dolls, it's loneliness

Bell 2022-04-22 07:01:05

I haven't read the original book yet, so I'm just commenting on the film.

The movie itself makes it easy for the audience to put themselves in the role of Caroline, a child's perspective, where curiosity always trumps fear. The night I watched this film, I had a bit of a sequelae. Every time I opened the door, I was afraid and looked forward to opening a beautiful tunnel through the door, and the button-eyed mother stood behind the door and smiled and said, "Welcome back." I don't know. Will Caroline cherish that dream in the future, although the back of the dream is a little scary. Think again, in fact, the aunt who created the horror (some people say that she was a witch) did not intend to murder from the beginning to the end. What Yi made up was not a doll, but loneliness~

1. The process of making a doll at the beginning of the film made me unable to bear it. Reminds me of Chen Qizhen's lyrics: "You've been playing/You've been playing with yourself/You run to play with others/You run/Play with another person..." It took so much effort to make a Bishaw doll, snooping A child's life, weaving a child's dream, what kind of spirit is this... a disease.

What also makes me wonder is that since there is only one key, the witch can't open the real world, so how did the doll get delivered? Caroline slept in the witch's first two nights and then woke up and returned to the real world. Who sent her back?

2. When Caroline tasted the food made by witches, I kept darkly expecting that she would become a doll after eating too much (the experience of reading fairy tales when I was a child), or after Caroline fell asleep, the witch peeled off her eye-plants. Button eyes (she said it wouldn't hurt a lot). But until the witch brought out her button eyes, Caroline was safe and enjoying herself. The purpose of changing eyes is to keep the child and let her love, and the method is to induce rather than coerce, what kind of gentle... scum.

3. Caroline listened to the black cat's plan and proposed a game (more precisely, a bet) to the witch, and the witch actually agreed when she had the upper hand, and gave 3 accurate tips. (It seems that many bad people fall into this kind of bad/kindness that is not thorough enough.) If everything in the other world is woven by witches, why are other father and other Wabi being controlled by witches on the one hand, and independent on the other hand What about the soul? The other father was stopped many times, and before being dragged into the pond, he stuffed the soul ball to Caroline. The other Wabi rescued Caroline and guided her back to the real world. This kind of consciousness can be traced back to the source, is it a witch? Originally, I just wanted to play a game to relieve boredom, but will I finally let Caroline go? To be serious, this is a one-on-one game. If Caroline hadn't had so many people to pull it off, she would have lost a long time ago.

4. Caroline's resistance is also very interesting in my opinion. You are the one who is dissatisfied with your parents, you are the one who is curious and opens the door behind you, you are the one who enjoys the benefits of other moms, and you are the one who expresses your yearning for the other world, but when the witch really wants to keep you, you don’t think twice. Going back to the boring real world and showing adult cunning at the end of the rebellion. (Sounds and hits~ Is this something children can play with~) Caroline seems to be more afraid of losing her reality than losing her eyes, but when she grows up in the real world, she will also lose her eyes actively or passively. (The happy ending of the film, in my opinion, is a kind of compensation after the stud, making Caroline wake up from her dream and think: Ah, the real world is actually not that bad...that's it.)

5. Not in the movie Explain the consequences of wearing button eyes: Lost soul? Growth stalled? If it is the former, then the toys that lack an independent soul due to their own preferences will indeed make the witches feel tired and discarded (it’s just a matter of time). A child with the eyes of an old man will also be repelled by a witch who wants to love a simple child. So in the end, I made a good-hearted guess: this is just a dream woven by a lonely woman, and finally the tragedy that has been exhausted and shattered by imagination.

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Coraline quotes

  • Other Father: [robotic] All will be swell, soon as Mother's refreshed. Her strength is our strength...

    [one of the robotic hands closes his mouth forcefully]

    Other Father: Mustn't... talk when Mother's not here.

    Coraline Jones: If you won't even talk to me, I'm gonna find the other Wybie. He'll help me.

    Other Father: No point.

    [face distorts]

    Other Father: He pulled a loooong face... and Mother didn't like it.

  • Coraline Jones: [on the "Other" Mother] Why does she want me?

    Cat: She wants something to love, I think. Something that isn't her. Or, maybe she'd just love something to eat.

    Coraline Jones: Eat? That's ridiculous, mothers don't eat... daughters.

    Cat: I don't know. How do you taste?

    [chuckles]