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Within moments I was thinking of Myst, of the loving attention paid to small, functional objects and materials and their tactile quality, placed in context in an intimately realized space. Ray Bradbury would know how to describe that love. It has to do also with the natural delight taken in the working of simple devices and the way, under the close observance of a child, every thing seems to have something like a soul.


Note: Whatever had been reported about the use of a new CGI process to mimic the stilted movements of traditional stop motion animation (see Coraline) turns out to be unfounded, to my vague relief.