Dolls, like clowns and carousels, can be charming or magical, but the possibility for creepiness is always just around the corner. The choice of stop-motion animation for the big-screen version of Coraline is an inspired one for a story that involves an uncanny rag doll with button eyes that bears a striking resemblance the young protagonist.
Why would a little girl invent such a theme? Where does that come from? A part of the brain that knows what it’s doing, I suspect. Even then, though, there are subtle signs that the little girl is still ultimately in control, still telling the story herself.įantasy writer Neil Gaiman says his 2002 novella Coraline was in fact built around themes from stories that his daughter Holly improvised when she was four or five years old - stories about a girl named Holly whose mother gets kidnapped by a witch that resembles the mother. Somehow this feels like the right place to begin with Coraline, a dark fantasy with surreal elements that feel like a story that a little girl tells herself, initially for comfort and amusement, until the disquieting elements take over and the dream becomes a nightmare. But now that the dream is over, you don’t have to worry about having it again. Maybe being scared in a dream helps you to be braver and less scared in the real world. And I think that part of us usually knows what it’s doing - and God knows that. Sometimes good stories, sometimes scary stories… but stories we make up ourselves, with a different part of our brain. But I think most dreams, good or bad, are like stories that we tell ourselves - stories that a part of your brain tells to another part of your brain. About These Ratings I know it seems like bad dreams are something bad that just happens to you.
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