Coraline Research Paper

For my film review, I deiced to do one of my all-time favorite movies by Henry Selick titled Coraline. Let me start by saying while Coraline is a beautifully created family film it is not for all children like it was advertised. Coraline is much more of a whimsical horror that not every child would be able to handle.

Coraline is about a twelve-year-old girl named Coraline. She moves with her family from Michigan all the way to Oregon to an old house called the pink palace. There she feels bored and alone as her parents are busy with trying to start up their gardening business and act Coraline is getting in there way. To entrain herself, she begins exploring the house and backyard where she meets the weird neighbor boy Wybie.

Coraline continues to explore until she finds a small door hidden in the living room. When she has her mother open it, she discovers it is bricked up and quickly forgets about the hidden room. However, that night she goes searching for her missing doll which she finds behind the door. She opens it only to find it no longer bricked up and instead of a tunnel to a beautiful parrel world that is exactly like only far more colorful and whimsical then she could have ever hoped for. She even meets identical copies of her parents, however, with one major difference; they all have buttons for eyes. …show more content…
She grows to love it more and more as it seems made for her and provides her with more fun and attention than the real world ever did. She decides after getting into an argument with her mother rover a pair of gloves to stay in the other world forever. The other mother is happy to have her stay. However, there is one condition, she must sew buttons into her