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May contain spoilers.

Okay so, today I watched Paranorman and let me just say that it was a very good movie. I enjoy how it was unpredictable and it can relate to people today. This movie is about a boy who is constantly ridiculed and put down because he’s different. He’s different because he can see and talk to dead people. He didn’t choose to be that way and he even says it in the movie and yet people still don’t care that he can’t help it. Even his father and sister have trouble being nice to him and believing that the things he say are true. His mother has trouble being able to stand up for him because I guess she’s just as scared. Anyways, there’s this curse that a, supposedly, witch put on the town. It was the 300th anniversary and as the story goes on, you realize that the story has been morphed into something much more worse than it really is. That leads me to how people continue to believe something and change the story around because it strayed so far from the truth. Norman and his chubby friend are constantly bullied but they stick together and I like that about the movie. How the two seek safety in each other and become friends. Eventually, the bully befriends Norman because he has no choice and he’s scared. So, the witch raises these 7 people from the dead and people immediately believe that they’re bad and they quickly try to kill them. It even shows how a huge mob formed because they were so afraid. They even got a little kid to rip off one of the zombies arms. Sounds kinda familiar in todays society, no? Anyways, still no one listens to Norman and all he wants is to be heard, not even his father wants to hear it. But as things get out of hand, his sister helps him and I think that’s a really good part. Later on, you learn that the witch wasn’t a witch, just a girl who was much like Norman. She asks why Norman doesn’t want the people to suffer as they make him do, but how he responds really stands out to me; he says “What good will that do?” And that’s something people really need to think about. What good will constant mocking and putting down really do? What I got from the movie is that, people will fear other people who are different and they will find any reason to destroy them and they’ll continue to destroy the people who are different until they start to think that there are no good people left in the world.

And also Anna Kendrick as Courtney, um yes please.