It is so very hard to find this piece of review I did a while ago about the movie Caroline. The book was one of my most beloved book. I still love it and so here it goes:
Coraline steps out from the short novella by Neil Gaiman, bring with her the bitter-sweet story of an adventure we will never forget.
Having moved to a new apartment recently with her loving but preocupied parents, meeting the new strange neighbours who could never get her name right, and the new boy, Wybie, who seems to talk too much all the time. Coraline (by Dakota Fanning) finds herself bored one rainy day, her father suggested she could explores the flat by counting doors and windows. She finds a locked door in the drawing room. Her mother open it and explains to Coraline that the appartment was once a single house before it was seperated and bricked up. Night comes, Coraline heard a strange noise and sees a black shadow slip through her room.
The young, clever and curious Coraline follows the rats to find, not a bricked wall but a magical hollow leads to another appartment. This is called the Other World was made by Other Mother and Other Father, who are almost the same as her real parents but with buttons sewn in the place of their eyes. The Other parents seem to be more interesting and loving at first, especially her Other Mother who would intent to keep Coraline happy and entertained.
Coraline comes forward and backward in her dreams until one day, Other Mother offers Coraline who was smart enough to know when Other Mother asked her if she wants to stay in the Other World forever by sewing buttons into her eyes.
Henry Selick, the director of Coraline, gave us not just a splendidly strange and frightening feelings but also an animation almost real and could be enjoyed by the whole family.
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