Question
So I learnt many things about Coraline from "The Hidden Meaning of the Movie “Coraline”
Basically it looks like a normal fantasy animation movie, but it actually has a deeper meaning. It interprets the procedure of mind control for leaving pain. An alternate reality that provides so much comfortableness that one simply just ignores reality and wants to live in that world.
But the 'other mother' from Coraline's alternate reality is a witch who wants to trap her forever.
Each time Coraline went to that alternate world she remembers everything. How she went, what she has done, the beauty, the horror. At a point, "other mother" trapped Coraline's parent using the same way she provoked Coraline to enter in her world (using dolls). Then Coraline rescued her parents through some events, but her parents can't remember what happened? Question is why not?
If Coraline can remember everything why can't they? What's the hidden meaning of it from the viewpoint of mind control? Coraline even saw snow in their hair and jacket, so it wasn't a dream. They were actually trapped in the alternate reality. They wrote "HELP US" inside the mirror. Still they can't remember anything. What am I missing here?
Answer
It wasn't explained in the film, nor is it explained in the source novel (except to say that it's not explained)
CORALINE’S PARENTS NEVER SEEMED to remember anything about their time in the snow globe. At least, they never said anything about it, and Coraline never mentioned it to them.
Sometimes she wondered whether they had ever noticed that they had lost two days in the real world, and came to the eventual conclusion that they had not. Then again, there are some people who keep track of every day and every hour, and there are people who don’t, and Coraline’s parents were solidly in the second camp.
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