■Reasons for inclusion: The combination of wonderful original work and powerful imagination, a strong contender for the best animated feature film at the 2010 Oscar.
■Title: "Mother Ghost"
■Director: Henry Selick
■Release date: February 6, 2009 (United States)
■Reader: Europa
■Recommendation index: ★★★★★☆
■One sentence comment: The little girl was puzzled by her growth, and another world was opened. From the good to the horror, there are dangers in the middle.
In recent years, more and more cartoons have been placed in front of the audience, including 2D Hayao Miyazaki and Oshii Mamoru, 3D Pixar, European style "I grew up in Iran" and "Waltz with Bashir" , It can be called a wide variety, each with its own strengths. Now "Ghost Mother" continues the vitality of stop motion animation, and continues to carry forward the number of "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and "Zombie Bride". It has received both box office and good reviews for a while, and the results are eye-catching. Stop motion animation is not a rare proper term. Previously, Chinese "Avanti" and "Magic Pen Ma Liang" can be classified into this category. Therefore, the style and type of "Mama Ghost" will surely make some people feel familiar and familiar. .
The story is similar to the setting of "Pan's Labyrinth". The little girl Coraline and her parents moved to a remote old apartment. Upstairs they lived a strange uncle doing magic, and downstairs lived a couple who loved friends. Old sociable flower. Coraline has a cold relationship with her parents, her mother always keeps her face straight, and her father is even more busy with work. Coraline's life is boring (the boring little details such as stepping on the carpet are very interesting to show), she met the "motorcyclist" Webber wearing an iron mask, the boy with a crooked head and his black cat looked a little abnormal. Coraline found a small door in the corner of the room and walked through the passage to another world. There are her dream good mother and good father, beautiful house and garden. Everything around is so wonderful and fun, it makes Coraline feel novel and exciting. Linger.
Behind the door Coraline opened was a mysterious passage full of wrinkles, exuding blue and dark red light. I am surprised that it is not a common portal in a magical story. The shape of the channel can easily be substituted into Freud's psychoanalysis and connected to the female reproductive organs. The theme of "Ghost Mother" became somewhat obvious. Coraline's growth was suppressed by her mother. She tried her best to get rid of the food that couldn't swallow and the house with cracked walls, stay away from the gray clothes, and escape the restraint and control of her mother. . Therefore, the good mother is obedient to Coraline, and it seems that she has met all the requirements and fantasies of the little girl. However, growth and rebellion have to pay a certain price, Coraline began to understand the origin of the button eyes, the film turned to its horror side.
The film uses the central turning point of the screenwriting technique. Good mother took out a box of gifts to give Coraline, which contained the buttons and needles. This is a seemingly ordinary but decisive tiny action. The film begins to enter a highly dramatic conflict-Coraline wants to escape from this world, and the good mother reveals her true face. Later, the traditional battle between good and evil is introduced. The ending of the little girl fighting the black witch is that the key is thrown into the depths of the secret well to prevent the door of another world from being opened.
On the other hand, the story of "Ghost Mother" is like this. Coraline was ignored by her parents busy with work and life, and was called "Caroline" by some people such as Weber. Her life was lonely and lonely. Her confession was ignored, and she seemed to have lost her true identity. The other world satisfies her dream desires, the food and clothes she wants, the gorgeous performances presented to her by others, and everything is rotating around her as the axis. The bargain offered by the good mother is that Coraline will be sewn with buttons and eyes, and then she can stay in the perfect world forever without going back to the tattered and indifferent real world. If the contest between Coraline and the good mother (the black witch) is regarded as a process of maturity, then Coraline has understood the difference between reality and dream through several round trips and escapes. Everything in the other world, without the need to pursue and pay, is itself an imperfection that cannot be corrected. On the contrary, the imperfections of the real world can be changed. Just like everyone planting flowers at the end, only human effort is needed, and bad things can be corrected. What "Ghost Mother" advocates is humanistic thinking.
The character setting of "Ghost Mother" is very simple, and everyone and the corresponding "other me" including cats, dogs and mice have not been missed. The manipulator and rag dolls at the beginning, the paintings such as "Odysseus and the Sea Monster" in the middle, and the background of Van Gogh's "Starry Sky" when the soul ascends to the sky. A small place allows interested audiences to slowly recall. There are many repetitive editing techniques in the film. Coraline sits at the table, sighing and leaning back. The next scene is that she is lying on the bed, and some round-to-round and square-to-square matching clips also make the movie smoother. . This whimsical world, seemingly from the perspective of a little girl, is really not simple. [Beijing Youth Daily]
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