I wanted to catch the stop-motion animated film Coraline on the big screen when it was shown, but I missed it due to my work schedule. A year later I was able to watch it on cable.
As I expected, Coraline's story somehow reflects my own sensibilities:
- We both feel we belong some place else.
- People always get our names wrong the first time.
- We are both determined -- the silent kind of determination.
- We both yearn for beautiful things.
- We also know when to retreat from a sordid situation.
- She's got blue hair. I love the color blue.
Coraline reminds me of an old Alice In Wonderland movie that I got to see as a kid. Perhaps, Coraline just has an extra morbidity that keeps it more off-center. Or maybe it's the ghostly apparition in the movie that makes it more appealing to me.
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