Comments on: Review & Thoughts: Coraline (2009) http://segonmedia.com/2009/02/07/review-thoughts-coraline-2009/ Yet Another Media Criticism Blog Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:43:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Bruce http://segonmedia.com/2009/02/07/review-thoughts-coraline-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-1080 Bruce Wed, 19 May 2010 21:00:32 +0000 http://segonmedia.com/?p=67#comment-1080 The family in the story moved from Pontiac Michigan not Plymouth. Did you really see the movie? The photo of Coralines "Buds" were from Pontiac Junior High! The family in the story moved from Pontiac Michigan not Plymouth. Did you really see the movie? The photo of Coralines “Buds” were from Pontiac Junior High!

]]> By: Seg http://segonmedia.com/2009/02/07/review-thoughts-coraline-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-356 Seg Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:30:27 +0000 http://segonmedia.com/?p=67#comment-356 @C. Kidon Corrected the post. @C. Kidon
Corrected the post.

]]> By: C. Kidon http://segonmedia.com/2009/02/07/review-thoughts-coraline-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-355 C. Kidon Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:54:43 +0000 http://segonmedia.com/?p=67#comment-355 The family in the story moved from Pontiac Michigan not Plymouth. Did you really see the movie? The photo of Coralines "Buds" were from Pontiac Junior High! The family in the story moved from Pontiac Michigan not Plymouth. Did you really see the movie? The photo of Coralines “Buds” were from Pontiac Junior High!

]]> By: Meg http://segonmedia.com/2009/02/07/review-thoughts-coraline-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-327 Meg Sun, 08 Feb 2009 03:11:30 +0000 http://segonmedia.com/?p=67#comment-327 My only thought about real mother vs other mother is that this movie is, essentially, seen from the POV of Coraline. In this case, perhaps the real mother's attitude is simply a melodramatic version of what is really going on. Coraline is aimed at kids and, I think, captures the "but nobody truly loooooooooves me!" attitude that children can get. It's what makes the other mother so much more appealing to Coraline. Coraline knows that her real mother loves her, even though it seems that she doesn't, because she is her REAL mother, as opposed to the other mother who is loving unconditionally to a fault. Confusing, I know, but once I watched it as a kid would watch it, it made a lot more sense. My only thought about real mother vs other mother is that this movie is, essentially, seen from the POV of Coraline. In this case, perhaps the real mother’s attitude is simply a melodramatic version of what is really going on. Coraline is aimed at kids and, I think, captures the “but nobody truly loooooooooves me!” attitude that children can get. It’s what makes the other mother so much more appealing to Coraline. Coraline knows that her real mother loves her, even though it seems that she doesn’t, because she is her REAL mother, as opposed to the other mother who is loving unconditionally to a fault.

Confusing, I know, but once I watched it as a kid would watch it, it made a lot more sense.

]]> By: Melissa (oddharmonic) http://segonmedia.com/2009/02/07/review-thoughts-coraline-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-326 Melissa (oddharmonic) Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:42:17 +0000 http://segonmedia.com/?p=67#comment-326 If you want to read the book (it's not long, I completed it in an evening around taking care of the kiddo), you can read it for free online at the publisher's site: http://browseinside.harpercollinschildrens.com/index.aspx?isbn13=9780380807345 If you want to read the book (it’s not long, I completed it in an evening around taking care of the kiddo), you can read it for free online at the publisher’s site: http://browseinside.harpercollinschildrens.com/index.aspx?isbn13=9780380807345

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