Escaping Doppelgangers: "Coraline" Serves Up Adventure in a Parallel World
This delightfully odd horror movie presents a whimsically strange alternate reality to younger audiences.

Actress Nora Gregor dies at the age of forty-seven, in her final exile in Santiago, Chile, three weeks after learning of her mother’s death. It is January 20, 1949. A second later, she opens her eyes - and finds herself in Gorizia, in the year 2025.
This delightfully odd horror movie presents a whimsically strange alternate reality to younger audiences.
The relationship between the characters is what makes this film stand out, and it’s just all-around fun.
I hope that more people will see Joyland, understand the situation, and eventually change themselves and society so we can have a more accommodating world where everyday tragedies like the one depicted in the film do not occur.
“And I think to myself….what a wonderful world”. Louis Armstrong sang about this notion via his classic 1967 song, an ode to witnessing elements of our life that should be but some reminders of exactly what that concluding line of each verse indicates. Now we see our contemporary realities and, just being honest, it makes a sentiment like this seem SO overtly far away….perhaps even impossible….to accept or believe could be. It sounds harsh, but again, so much of what is occurring speaks not to beauty, but bedlam.
In less than 30 minutes, Proudfoot guides the viewer through a narrative that touches on American history, mind-health issues, race, and gender politics