The Esotericism of Coraline

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• PE

  @pepboi · 1 month ago

  You seriously cooked here

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• LY

  @lyiah4765 · 1 month ago

  After watching coraline conspiracy's for years I always felt like I was missing something. This just scratched that itch completely. What a beautiful metaphor for life.

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• MY

  @MysticStarStudio · 1 month ago

  Dude this video essay is crazy, Im Russian and love slavic folklore, but have never heard anyone discuss Coraline in this way. And the relationship Coraline has with others, her family, and life itself is fascinating. Such a mirror into our own minds.

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• SA

  @saraoz2629 · 1 month ago

  damn she solved it yall

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• CO

  @courtney_lol · 1 month ago

  keep me on this side of youtube forever, this was so refreshing

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• SA

  @saraoz2629 · 1 month ago

  gotta say: this is genius and the hamlet “to be or not to be” also really, really works with the character of “why be” he’s literally helping her find a way out of the philosophical cul-de-sac she’s in (the same as hamlet’s, she needs a reason to love life again)

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• NE

  @Nebula10000 · 1 month ago

  Mother spiders sometimes eat their children when starved which parallels the other mother (Coraline) trying to eat the nurturing part of herself.

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• SA

  @sarrtree · 3 weeks ago (edited)

  As someone who has struggled with depression their whole life the realization that happiness is a choice was a relief.

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• S-

  @S-E-L-E-N-O-P-H-I-L-E · 1 month ago

  Please don't delete it 😢

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• SK

  @skullshapedbox · 1 month ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyAF_6Fr9bc&amp;t=1586">26:26</a> &nbsp;this makes me think that our carefully curated selves on social media are us in the snowglobe

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• OH

  @ohsh1taspider · 1 month ago

  This is such a gorgeous analysis of this story. I love Coraline and i should definitely rewatch with your words in mind because i think you just told me why i always loved this movie so much since i saw it as a very, mysteriously &amp; genetically depressed kid.

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• KE

  @kelso_ · 3 weeks ago

  This was, hands down, the best Coraline theory video/best Coraline video, period, that I have ever had the pleasure of watching . A complete new and in depth take on it ! So well done, your writing and your ability to analyze are truly amazing

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