Coraline's mother wears a neck brace for the duration of the film, the victim of an unseen car accident. Finally there's Wybie Lovat, the landlady's grandson whose name is short for “Wyborne,” an especially terrible thing to name a child.
Mel mentions something about a car accident, which is why she is wearing a neck brace. Coraline immediately screams that the accident wasn't her fault. The audience can come to the conclusion that the accident was most likely Coraline's fault, though, due to her abrupt defensiveness.
After Coraline grabbed all of the three eyes of the Ghost Children, the Beldam is shown in her true form - a cross between a skeleton and an arachnid. Her face is cracked and her hands are made of sewing needles. She stays in this form for the remainder of the movie, having no further reason to hide her appearance.
Near the beginning of the film, Coraline's mother makes a comment about how their plans had changed 'since the accident' and points to her neck brace. Throughout the film, the parents have no interaction with anyone but their daughter.
Coraline searches through the Other World and overcomes the Other Mother's obstacles by using her wits and Miss Spink's lucky stone to find the marble-like souls of the ghost children. She also deduces that her parents are imprisoned in a snow globe on the mantelpiece.
Coraline Jones (voice of Dakota Fanning) is an unhappy child. She feels neglected by her parents (Teri Hatcher and John Hodgman) after they move to an old house in the country. Busy with deadlines and dreams, her parents have no time for her and are irritated by her questions and constant pestering.
The answer is no. In fact, she never left at all. In the book, when Coraline meets the ghost children, they tell her that once they saw the beldam, they never saw their true mothers again.
The scariest scene in Coraline lives in the book. After Coraline finds two ghost souls, The Beldam gives her a key to the cellar. There, we find what's left of her creation –the Other Father– once he wasn't of anymore use to The Beldam.
Throughout the film, Coraline uses the symbolism of body parts as a physical representation of emotional manipulation, revealing the unseen trauma caused by emotional abuse. Hands, the most repeated symbol throughout the film, are used as the Other Mother's physical manipulators.
The doll is a doll created by The Beldam to spy on her victims. Its appearance is altered in the image of her next victim.
Like his wife, being a busy father and husband, Charlie has little time and attention to spare for his daughter as he spent most of his time typing articles for a gardening catalogue on his computer.
It was Henry Selick who proposed the idea of the door being small in the film. He had stated in a commentary that the big wooden door would have felt just too obvious to him. He had reminiscent staying in one of his grandmother's houses in New Jersey as a child.
The truth is the Beldam is just a puppet and the real bad guy is the "cat". And the "cat" really is behind all the deaths and dispearances of children in the area.
When Coraline was half asleep, she receives a visitor: the cat. He leads the girl to her parents: they are trapped in a mirror. Coraline decides to go back to the “Other World” to rescue her parents.
After Coraline saved them, they came back in the real world without any recollection of the events that took place. In response to the promise she made with her daughter, Mel bought Coraline the colorful gloves she wanted in Linden's Uniform from the time they went shopping for Coraline's school clothes.
Coraline initially falls for the fantasy, but it gradually unravels, initiated by the Other Mother's morbid request: that she have buttons sewn into her eyes so that she can remain in The Other World forever.
Common Sense Media, a website that helps parents and caregivers make more informed decisions about media, cites violence and scariness as the main reason for its recommendation that this movie is appropriate for kids 10 and older.
Coraline's greatest fear at the start of the novel is that her parents do not love her enough, and the Other Mother, whom Coraline meets in the world beyond the bricked-up door, is a frighteningly literal manifestation of Coraline's inner psyche.
Coraline's behavior is consistent with a psychotic-dissociative cluster as evidenced by her experiencing an alternate universe as well as incorporating fixed beliefs. As these are critical parts of the plot, it is best to formulate Coraline's behavior along a psychotic-dissociative spectrum.
When her family moves to a big old country house in Oregon, 11-year-old Coraline Jones is less than thrilled. In fact, at the start of the stop-motion animated film that bears her name, Coraline is actively bored.
Cellar, overgrow, ageing, terriers, rehearsed, stunted, clump, flyblown, rockery, meadow, knothole, haughty, coloration, expedition, pattering, occasional, scuttled, distorted. Think to yourselves or discuss with someone at home.
In one scene, Coraline's mother tells Coraline that Mr. Bobinski is drunk. Coraline later tells her mother: "Mr. B is not drunk mum, he's just eccentric."
The Beldam or simply known as the Other Mother is the main antagonist of the film Coraline. She is the ruler of the Otherworld who kidnaps children from the Pink Palace and traps their souls in the Otherworld by disguising herself as the victim's mother with button eyes.
Coraline overcomes great odds, defeats the evil other mother, saves her parents, and rescues the trapped souls of three children.
The other mother wants to possess the children she takes so completely that she actually steals their souls. For a moment, we might feel sorry for her. Maybe all she wants is love, devotion, and the closeness a child has with his or her mother.