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Mr. Bobinsky's mice and the Coraline doll

posted 8 years ago by pandemonium91
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I finally saw Coraline yesterday and most things were wrapped up nicely, except for these two details I didn't understand:

1. Mr. Bobinsky mentions several times that his mice told him about Coraline (they actually called her this, Mr. Bobinsky called her "Caroline") and how she was in danger. Now that's too accurate to be an invention or hallucination of his, so what were the mice? Were they magical like the cat?

2. How did Beldam/Other Mother know to create the Coraline doll to look exactly like Coraline? Wyborne mentions it belonged to his grandmother's sister, and since she disappeared/died when she was a child (from the photo we see, as well as her ghost form), that would mean the Beldam knew about Coraline coming to live in that house before Coraline's parents were even born! Or am I missing something?

[–] nocakeforyou 8 years ago

I don't know about the mice but an interesting connection is that initially, Coraline gets into the other world by following the mice, so clearly the mice know what's up.

As for the second question, the doll was long reused by the Beldam to be modified to the look of every one of her targets. When YB gives it to her, it is shortly after she modified the doll to look like Coraline, which we see happening during the opening credits.