coraline Film Study - symbol

Symbol
Button

The buttons was the other mothers trap, she was going to take her eyes so she can see. The buttons was a symbol of her being lost and she cant find her eyes. The buttons also was the nonhuman side of the other mother. Her goal was to take her eyes so she can lock her up until she dies

Key

In Coraline the key was the main item in the story.There's only one key to the door between the other world and real world. And the other mother and Coraline both wants to have  that key. Compared to the all of the  other keys in the drawer, 'it was the oldest, biggest, blackest, rust key' . It's different from all the other keys, just like the other world is different from the real world. In this way, the key seems to represent the other world: old and ugly. Also the  director tells us that without the key it will be a story.

When collector told Coraline  to count all the windows in the house. When Coraline was counting the windows in the living room she show the doll and when Coraline pick up the doll she saw a secret door behind the doll. Then she call her mother and asked for key then coraline mother opened the secert door with the key and there show the brick wall in the door. At night Coraline saw and hea the jumping mice downstairs. Then she followed the mice to the secret door and went to the other world .