Coraline
Henry Selik channels Neil Gaiman channeling a darker, stranger Roald Dahl
I’m beginning to think the English may need to brush up on their parenting skills. First, Roald Dahl wrote all those stories about children under the guardianship of some really awful grownups. Then J.K. Rowling wrote the wildly popular Harry Potter series, which opens with Harry’s abusive aunt and uncle forcing him to live in a tiny room beneath the stairs. Now there’s Neil Gaiman who wrote Coraline, the novel on which the eponymous movie is based, with a plot that once again relies on the tensions between a child’s playtime needs and her parents’ neglect of those needs.
