Coraline( Film Review #1)

      I remember looking at the trailer of this film and wondering how odd the animated characters looked like. But now, after watching it, I'd describe the animation as a "refreshing change to what I'm used to".
    This story is about an unhappy young girl-Coraline, who moves away from her home town- into an 150 year old house, with busy parents who seem to have no time for her. She meets new people, but can seem to make a real connection with nobody. Nobody except, a little boy who (along with his black cat) has taken to stalking her. He gives her a doll which looks very similar to herself( and which he has stolen from his grandmother - who coincidentally, is the owner of the house Coraline's family now lives in).

   While looking around the House, she discovers, a small door on a wall in her house and immediately gets it open with her mothers help, only to find a brick wall on the other side. However at night time , she finds that the door leads to an alternate universe-type-place. Here, her mother is attentive, loving and cooks all the things she loves and oh wait...has buttons in the place of eyes.

     This new world, seems to have everything she could have hoped for. People who care, neighbours who are amazing. However she is able to return to her reality in the morning, when she wakes up - and is irked at how unsatisfying and imperfect everything around her is. Repeatedly she is warned not to go back in through the little door, but the other world is too enticing. 

All is not well for long however,and she realises this when her "other mother" puts before her the option of staying in the other world forever if only she'll let her eyes be sewn over by buttons. This suddenly jolts her back to her senses, and she realizes that her imperfect reality if Far Far better than this "so-called-perfect-yet-fake-other-world". 

It turns out the other world is not really a "world" but just her house and a little bit surrounding it-or at least the enamoured version of it. What follows is her fight back to reality and how she begins to see things differently 

   The Characters are extremely well portrayed and the message is loud and clear. Things are not always the way they seem. What we get is what's best for us, and when we go after something that we think is better (or what appears to be perfect for us)-it usually isn't.

 We find that the "other thing" is far worse than what we first had. Because what we've got is the Best- it's the way we look at it that needs to change. 

P.S. I am no professional " Film Reviewer" and this post is about putting across, what I learnt from this piece of work. SO, there are a lot of details that I've left out. Starting with : The film is based on a Book by "Neil Gaiman", of the same name. Check out more such details : here :D. 

P.P.S. Oh and I take no credit for any of the pictures used here :DThanks:)

Love

- Jeff