Was it ever explained why she wants to sew buttons on the children's eyes?
>>81318060
Is this something that needs explaining? Doesn't everyone want to? I view this desire as a crucial part of the human experience.
>>81318110
>>81318060
it's just the metaphorical completion of a spider wrapping its prey
>>81318060
I dunno, most parents just want their kids to button their lips.
>>81318060
There isn't, the whole thing is just to scare kids
Nail base coraline on a old dark(middle?) age tale about bad kids getting there eyes sew
>>81318616
C A R L O S!
>>81318060
They're the other mother's dolls. I think the ghost children are the ones who give that explanation. Once she gets bored of one doll (child), she moves onto the next.
>>81318060
She is hot
Post Shadman!
>>81318060
She's a kinky kinky woman
>>81318060
Because they can't very well leave after that, can they? They've given themselves up into her power.
Don't ask why it works that way, she's a fairy tale villain.
>>81318060
It's based on handmade dolls that have buttons for eyes. She wants to turn the girl into a doll, obedient and something she can play with. The act somehow allows her to steal the souls of children. It's a symbolic and submissive thing. It ties into body horror and the creepiness of dolls, which aren't quite human enough.
>>81318793
That's not a pun though.
Fairy tales just work like that. They eat a grapeseed, stay there until dawn, knock over a candle, just any random little thing translates to losing their soul forever.
An old adage is that the eyes are the window to the soul. By plucking out the eyes, it gives her the ability to suck out their souls for sustenance. Sewing them back up essentially makes them dolls that she can possess as long as she's alive, since they are part of her in the spiritual food chain. Why dolls? It's her kick, but the idea goes back to her being a puppeteer, which is probably a cheeky nod to the claymation nature of the movie.
Coralines's mom was kind of a complete bitch throughout the movie. I can see how that might lead her into the arms of an otherdimensional spider woman.
So is there a lot of fan fiction about the other mother fucking Coralline?
>>81323454
She was in an accident and crabby.
>>81322644
It also ties into the fact that her role as an "ideal" mother for Coraline and the other world's weirdness is essentially fake in the same way that a dollhouse is. The replacement of her eyes with buttons would be symbolic of Coraline's total submission to her fantasy, but her keeping her own eyes is a symbol of her remaining attachment to the real world, and a rejection of the fantasy.
>>81322635
What was she anyway? A witch. or something else that feed on the life force of the living?
Simpsons did it
I rather enjoyed Coraline, don't know why but it completely slipped my radar until recently
>>81322486
Okay.
Wait what the hell, why is this thread untouched by the april fool's memery?
>>81330500
Close it and reopen it, don't think it works if you just refresh after already having it open
>>81324159
>gifs
>>81324159
>tfw you'll never get to touch or mess with Caroline IRL
It's how she claims ownership of their souls, so she can begin sucking away at their life force.
The book explains that aspect better. In the movie the Other Mother comes off more as someone who just wants to manipulate these kids so she can eat them. In the book, they make it clear that she actually does "care" about these kids, but they're just like pets or toys to her, and the moment she gets bored with them, she slowly eats their souls.
The button thing is to push the doll motif.
In the movie she is a beldam. A hag/witch.
/co/ would you join Other Mother?
>>81337108
Nnnnyes
>>81318060
she has a fetish
>>81318060
It's because she's evil. It's the same reason why Lex Luthor doesn't wash his hands.
Sexual fetish.
>>81326738
one of the fey
>>81318060
She's basically a fey being. She doesn't need things to make sense to you, only to her own twisted sense of logic, that's what makes the faeric scary. They work off symbolic logic, not real logic. She sews your eyes because she makes you into her doll.
