DIRECTOR'S CUT: Therapist Reacts to CORALINE
Added 2022-10-17 19:10:08 +0000 UTCHow do you stand up to people trying to manipulate you? How do you do the right thing even when you're scared?
Licensed therapist Jonathan Decker and filmmaker Alan Seawright compare Coraline's real mother and other mother to talk about what good parenting looks like and how to stand up to manipulators and fear. They talk about how Coraline is the scariest kids' movie they've ever seen, the amazing stop-motion design and color palettes, and the danger of just trying to escape reality or your problems. Especially if that escape involves button eyes.
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Coraline never leaves the Beldam's world. This is evident by the way the cat exits at the end of the movie. The first time she goes through the door she doesn't come back out she goes to sleep in the Beldam's world and the world shift is meant to signal to Coraline that she's back. But is she really? We never saw her leave the world. We can see that the Beldam has the ability to shift her appearance. At one point when she's pretending to be the real mother and shifts back into the Beldam she has human eyes during the transformation. Every interaction with her "real" parents after her first venture through the door is the Beldam masquerading as "real mother". The reason her parents become more of what she wants and needs at the end of the movie is to make Coraline believe she's back, but to make her comfortable with not questioning where she is. Obviously this is just a theory. But there's far more evidence to support it than what I said here. It's just too cool not to share.
Galen
2024-04-13 03:17:32 +0000 UTCOK, this movie legitimately scared the shit out of me when it came out (I was in my 20s). What horrified me more was working with kids/teens who told me it was their favorite movie. I wish I'd asked them why, but I was busy in my perspective of "well that can't be healthy". Maybe I'm just chicken, I love scary movies, but some children's movies have scared and scarred me deeply. This, "The Dark Crystal", "The Witches" (1990), obviously "Neverending Story", and the original "Jumanjii" are all the same "wtf adults" vibe that I both enjoy and HATE.
Lilly Trammell
2024-04-06 05:13:06 +0000 UTCFun fact that I think a lot of people know at this point but it adds to the atmosphere of the movie: part of the reason as to why the Russian neighbor is so weird and blue is explained by his medal. It's the medal of the liquefiers, a medal given to the people of Ukraine that helped with the radiation cleanup of the Chernobyl accident, he probably has a lot of radiation exposure
Mr Happy 897
2023-12-24 12:49:59 +0000 UTCI think the neighbor was saying "Hello golubushka" which from my googling means "darling" or "dearie".
Magnus Taliesin
2023-03-06 14:31:25 +0000 UTCMan this hit close to home. I recently went through something and it took me months to piece together the one common element of all the crap was one person and your description of they do all the nice stuff for you and then ask you for something that you wouldn't normally do π’ your video is such a great reminder and nice reinforcement as for the first time I've trusted my instincts, there's a person I've come to know, everybody loves them and says they're perfect but to me something seems off and I'm trusting my gut and staying far away from them. Thanks for all the great work guys
Kitty Devine
2023-02-19 20:02:26 +0000 UTC"I've done all this for you why can't you do this one thing for me" genuinely made me shudder. Too accurate.
Aether
2023-01-17 01:03:39 +0000 UTCTMBG.
Annie O'Neill
2022-11-29 18:26:16 +0000 UTCMy boyfriend at the time took me to see this this on a date, KNOWING I didnβt like scary movies. βOh you like animation, thisβll be fine!β β¦ We did not last long after π
Leslie Daley
2022-11-02 00:14:39 +0000 UTCWe are giants wrote in the song but the person who is singing is not a member of we are giants
Ella
2022-10-23 21:45:15 +0000 UTCThis particular one is, I believe. That almost never happens, as usually we can't shut up and it's a nightmare for our editors, lol. This time we were concise.
Cinema Therapy
2022-10-23 03:42:25 +0000 UTCIt is excellent as it is creepy.
taylor garrett
2022-10-21 21:43:58 +0000 UTCThe Master Class is excellent. Plus, you get to hear Neil Gaiman read excerpts from a bunch of his books and short stories, which is always great.
Cinema Therapy
2022-10-20 17:10:47 +0000 UTCWait. Is this the same edit from YouTube?
Angela
2022-10-18 17:54:00 +0000 UTCI read that book to every 5th grade class I teach and watch the movie afterwards. It's awesome. One of my favourite books and films.
Darmoyn (Jonas)
2022-10-18 17:52:57 +0000 UTCHe is one of my favorite authors! I've thought about taking his master class just cause I am a sponge for information I may never use. π I'm going to have to bump it up on my to do list.
Tiana Horsey-Daydreamer
2022-10-18 15:20:46 +0000 UTCLOVE Neil Gaiman's writing! Haven't read Coraline yet, but many of his other books (and the episodes of Dr. Who that he wrote are some of the best!) I've actually been watching his Master Class about writing, and he talks a bit about Coraline and some of his process of figuring out her story and arc, and how to tell truths about life in a fantastical setting. He really is an incredible writer and storyteller.
Cinema Therapy
2022-10-18 15:10:20 +0000 UTCSome fun facts for you! Neil Gaiman, who also wrote Stardust, wrote Coraline. He had decided to try his hand at writing children's books and his publisher told him that it was too scary. So he suggested she let her daughter read the sample he'd submitted and if she liked it, then it would get published. Results are telling. However, years later he told that story at an event that the publishers now grown daughter was attending. She told him that it had actually scared her shitless, but that she'd lied and said it didn't because she needed to know what happened. Also, the book is spookier than the movie in some ways.
Tiana Horsey-Daydreamer
2022-10-18 14:54:02 +0000 UTCI loved this movie :) I agree, the team did create something spectacular
Lucy
2022-10-18 06:12:42 +0000 UTCYOOOOOOO spooky season is truly upon us!!!
Avery Panganiban
2022-10-17 19:10:53 +0000 UTC
