ParaNorman - Nostalgia Critic
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ParaNorman is a 2012 American animated comedy horror film directed by Sam Fell and Chris Butler (the latter's feature directorial debut), and written by Butler. Produced by Laika, the film stars the voices of Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jodelle Ferland, Bernard Hill, Tucker Albrizzi, Anna Kendrick, Casey Affleck, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Leslie Mann, Jeff Garlin, Elaine Stritch, Tempestt Bledsoe, Alex Borstein, and John Goodman. It is the first stop-motion film to use a 3-D color printer to create character faces, and only the second to be shot in 3-D. In the film, Norman Babcock, a young boy who can communicate with ghosts, is given the task of ending a 300-year-old witch's curse on his Massachusetts town.
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Also, first here!
Coraline
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Coraline but it's really close but movies are amazing and so fantastic
I like how Judge Hopkins and the zombies of the old townsfolk realize how cruel they were to Aggie after experiencing mob mentality from her perspective. Hopkins knows what he did was unforgivable, but still does and do what he can to make it right so they can all rest in peace.
Agreed. Sometimes, all it takes to become better is a little change in perspective.
@@watershipup7101 the third act of this movie is awesome!!
This movie had surprisingly deep messages about discrimination, mob mentality, and how we deal with the past. Note that the whole town has turned the horrific hanging of a little girl into a tourist attraction so they can profit off it. However, just like the ghosts that Norman can speak to, the past will not stay buried forever, and we as people need to learn how to live with that.
I liked that Mitch was hesitant to let Neil befriend Norman, not because he was a bully, but because he didn't want his brother to be bullied alongside Norman.
What a film. It always cuts me up when he says, "The longer it stayed, the less there was of the little girl." Hatred can make us into monsters. Kindness makes us human.
💯💯💯Exactly
@@chasehedges6775 so true!!
Mitch being gay was actually an idea from the director to stay true to the film's message of not judging people. Plus, I love how Courtney's reaction to "You're gonna love my boyfriend" wasn't something like "What? He's gay?!" and instead was something like "What? He's taken?!"
I’m not sure if they weren’t allowed to explicitly have Mitch “come out” to Courtney. This was only 3 YEARS before gay marriage became legal in all 50 American states.
I wish modern entertainment handled such subject matter half as well as they did with Mitch.
Paranorman, Frankenweenie, and Hotel Transylvania were the trifecta of animated horror theme movies for kids in 2012, unless you count Ooogie Loves and the Great Balloon Adventure.
Sooooo true
Not to mention coraline
*PARANORMAN😊
@@chasehedges6775 The spellchecker is evil
The Oogieloves in the big balloon adventure is live action not animated but still scary for kids
Funny how both Parnorman and Scooby Doo Zombie Island as zombies be a red herring
I mean when you think about it beeing a zombie is pretty sad. Like you are a living corpse with no brain, you are barelly a treat since you are easy to take out unless you are with a legion, you do nothing but looking for food wich is not that much and you are basically an infected freak.
Beeing a zombie is a pretty sad story compare to monsters who are aware of their doings and do awfull things.
That’s actually kind of funny because one of ParaNorman inspirations is Scooby Doo!
Now if you only had two nickels due to how weird that it happened twice.
@@motor4X4kombat
Very true! Imo, another great zombie movie that really showcases how tragic and sad being a zombie would be is Return of the Living Dead. It's the movie that popularized zombies going after brains - but something people forget about why the zombies go after brains is because they're in constant pain, seek living people's brains for relief from that pain.
Definitely recommend the movie - it's full of 80s-ness and has some dark comedy moments, but also has some moments that made me, tear up in my experience.
And I thought Pixar Mom's had ridiculous proportions. The cheerleader and the cop specifically might have them beat.
Fun Fact: During the last few weeks leading up to the film's release, Laika sent 49 packages to 49 people (including Neil Gaiman and Kevin Smith and Jenny "The Bloggess" Lawson). Each package consisted of a wooden crate from "Blithe Hollow" full of "grave dirt" which recipients had to dig through to unearth a coffin. Inside the coffin was one of the seven cursed zombies, complete with background information and name.
So that’s where Gaiman got the grave he likes to roll in, but where did George Lucas get his?
@@mattphillips3537 George Lucas probably got a lightsaber
This film is so damn good.
That whole sequence at 19:30 with him trying to get through to her, her screaming at him and herself and splitting apart and screeching - followed by the calm when she lets go of her hatred makes me cry every time
Soooo true.
As I’ve discovered, it’s one of the best films of 2012. FOR A DARN GOOD REASON!
THAT ENDING IS SO AMAZING! 😭😭😭
@@Stopmotionfanartist IKR
Another Behind the Scenes Fact: The chase scene was incredibly difficult for various reasons. "If you think about this van racing down these roads then the roads physically have to be built," said director Chris Butler. "And we had a road that was seventy feet long I think, and that, of course, is flanked on either side by hand-made trees, hand-made road, and the van has to be animated by hand with all these characters inside it."
A Post Credits Scene Fact: There is an after-credits scene showing in time-lapse the designing and construction on a workbench of the Norman character, which ends with Norman coming to life as if waking up from sleep and leaving the scene.
I always adore the post credits of Laika movie show the wonder and hardwork of Stop Motion.
The twist reveal is extremely dark for a kids' film, and I remember being shocked to my core as a child. Also, they causally had a gay character admit that he had a boyfriend, showing how it's no big deal.
This film was really good. 💯
Still blows my mind a kids movie had the main antagonist be a literal child that was hung in the 1600s. Yeah we never see it, but we're told multiple times the Witch was hung.
It’s disturbingly brutal for an animated film.
@@chasehedges6775 agreed
Hanged*
Hanged.
I mean, I can't say for sure that she wasn't also hung, because I cannot and would rather not check, but she was definitely hanged.
The animated kid film to features an openly gay character.
That we don’t even know is such until the last 5 minutes
@@silashurd3597 one of the best jokes in the whole movie!
@silashurd3597 Not explicitly but there's some great subtle hints to pick up on for those in the know.
Happy Leif Erickson Day!
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Vinland ho!
A Behind the Scenes Fact: Animating the cheesy horror film that Norman is watching at the start of the movie was reportedly very difficult for the filmmakers, as they had to intentionally make a bad film (bad camera angles, poor focus, bad "acting" etc) while still working in the very technically demanding confines of stop motion animation
“All of us can get lost in our own extremism and lose our humanity to it, as well as destroy the humanity of others.”
I needed to hear this quote. Thanks for reviewing one of my favs ❤️
GOOD LINE! ❤
I do like the story with the judges, the reason Agatha tried to rise them up every time was for the same reason she died, because they're different, and thus will be killed by the town, just like she was, and the fact their souls only went away once Agatha passed on means that they had no choice but to wait in their graves for decades, hoping one day to either be killed or able to move on, they were bad people, but back then they weren't sure how the world worked, and compared to modern times, it's just another story, but for them this is a nightmare, and that's exactly what Agatha wanted.
And them not smiling really shows just what they thought of all this, regret and sorrow, they can move on, but after what they've experienced, it's difficult to truly be happy, because they know what they did.
Exactly
The epitome of a fate worse than death.
Enforced Method Acting (from TV Tropes): Kodi Smit-McPhee (the voice of Norman) has recalled in interviews that for certain scenes (such as the bathroom scene and car chase scene) he would have to shake himself in his chair or even stand up to achieve the desired effect.
Interesting
I love ParaNorman, that movie brought back stop motion animation towards 80s PG movies like Return to Oz! This is what animated PG movies should be!
To quote the late great Norm Macdonald and something i'm sure John Goodman might be thinking about right now is “It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.”
I fucking love Norm. It doesn’t seem like something he would say but also seems exactly like something he would say. He was able to straddle the line between brilliant and seemingly ignorant so effortlessly. He’d convince Larry King that he doesn’t know how to pronounce “iron” on one day, then school Neil deGrasse Tyson on cosmic existentialism on another.
Just want to say off the bat that I *loved* "Mary & Max" - I stumbled across it on Netflix one night and put it on thinking it'd be a good one to fall asleep to. Cut to 4 AM and I'm still awake and thinking about how impactful the movie I'd just finished was.
Such an underrated masterpiece that Im glad more people are recognising.
Norman is a character I can relate to; while I can't see ghosts, I understand the feeling of being isolated as a special outcast because of mental or psychological conditions you are born with that others have a hard time understanding, and for me personally Im autistic and mental psychosis. The scariest part of the entire movie is that accusing a child of being a witch and them executing her is DEFINITELY something that happened during that time period. I do appreciate how the zombies realise what they did was wrong and genuinely feel remorse after being cursed for decades, coming to understand the era of their ways. This movie has so many deeper themes, and the twist with the witch being a little really recontextualises the movie in the best way and makes its themes all the more poignant
I think ParaNorman was more of a reflection on society and how people working together can do both great and awful things.
Coraline was more of a personal story, pitying Coraline not just up against the Other Mother, but her own fears and the self-centeredness that hopefully, most of us grow out of.
I really appreciated this movie as a homosexual male because the Jock character is gay
They don't beat you over the head with it, they don't shove it down your throat or anything
She hits on him and asks him to go to a place with her and he responds with "I don't think my boyfriend would be all that interested going there" and that was it as he was not realizing she was hitting on him because he had no interest in girls and since that line she stopped for the rest of the movie trying to flirt with him
My favorite quote
Agatha - Don't you want to hurt them for hurting you?
Norman - Well... what good would that do?
Thought-provoking
Great! Now review these movies:
* The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It
* Young Frankenstein
* Dark Shadows (2012)
* The Dead Zone (1983)
* Spiral: From the Book of Saw
* Sleepy Hollow (1999)
* The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
* Mickey's House of Villains
* The Omen (1976/2006)
* Scream (1996)
7:18 Fun fact: The teacher is voiced by Alex Borstein, the voice of Lois Griffin in Family Guy.
24:21 Gotta love that subtle “It’s Randy.” from the James and the Giant Peach review. XD
4:33 I do really hope he review Mary and max, it dark but possibly one of the greatest movies that touches on a certain sensitive subject and respects it to it’s core which not many movies do on that subject, beautiful and emotional no other word for it
7:25 of course, you'd gotta bring up the ol' Agatha All Along meme. 😂
One Last Couple of Facts: The story is set in the town of Blithe Hollow, whose name is a mash-up of two other ghost stories: Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit and Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Norman's ring tone is the Halloween movie theme song, At the beginning of the movie, Norman is watching a "scary movie". The "actress" is modelled after Jamie Lee Curtis in 1978's Halloween, while the plot is a spoof of 1968's The Night of the Living Dead, The brand name seen on Mr. Prenderghast's underwear is 'Mr. Fell', after co-director Sam Fell. Mitch wears 'Mr. Butler' underwear, after co-director Chris Butler, Jeff Garlin based his performance of Perry Babcock on his best friend Judd Apatow, The singular compromise the directors made was in cutting an early variation on Mr. Prenderghast's introduction. The finished version shows him hacking and coughing as he reaches for some medication, but the filmmakers originally had him reaching for a cigarette. They decided that would be frowned upon in a children's movie these days, The film is loaded with homage, including name references (Clive Barker, Tobe Hooper and Day of the Dead's Bub) and visual ones (John Carpenter's Halloween, Sam Raimi's camerawork from Evil Dead, Scooby Doo ) but there are also a handful of inside jokes. Two, for some unexplained reason, involve the directors' names sewed into Mr. Prenderghast's and Mitch's respective underwear. Both directors claim they've seen no residuals from the product placement, This is the first Laika film to be produced in a 2.35:1 widescreen aspect ratio; all of that company's previous films were produced in 1.85:1, Laika's 2nd Film, and first film of the 2010s, When the bar patrons come out and see the zombies, one of the couples look like Sonny and Cher, Jeff Garlin's 4th Theatrically Released Animated Film, after WALL·E, Toy Story 3, and Cars 2, as well as Garlin's first Animated Film to not be from Disney/Pixar, and his first animated film to be Rated PG by the MPAA, Christopher Mintz-Plasse' 2nd Animated Film, after How to Train Your Dragon, Leslie Mann's 2nd Animated Film, after Rio, Stars Anna Kendrick and Christopher Mintz-Plasse who also star together in the Trolls franchise, The title is a play on word of "paranormal", John Goodman (Mr. Prenderghast) and Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Alvin) shares the same birthday (June 20th) but were born in thirty seven years apart from each other. Goodman was born in 1952 and Mintz-Plasse was born in 1989.
Another Fun Fact: The film company Laika used 3D printers to generate all of the different faces needed for the characters. Except the zombies, which had mechanical faces with silicone skins.
“You’re got to meet my boyfriend.” That statement just saddens her and it was hilarious.
Another Fun Fact: A vending machine is shown to sell "Cujohs", a direct reference to Cujo. It even has a dog as a logo.
Funny at the 2013 Oscar's we had no only 2 horror stop motion (paranorman, frankenweenie)for Best Animated Feature but make it 3 whole stop motion films nominated (The pirates)
And they picked the worst possible option for the winner
At least 10 years later, another stop-motion movie would actually WIN best animated feature: “Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio”! 😊
15:46 I literally ha same reaction, I swear the truth reveal of this film is one of the best twists I ever seen in cinema! To say I was shock, jaw dropped and a grey is sugarcoating it. This film should have gotten an Oscar.
A Wardrobe Fact: Grandma's ghostly wardrobe was up for debate early on, but the final choice was ultimately inspired by Estelle Getty's tracksuit from The Golden Girls.
15:28 the reveal about who Agatha really was, that truly makes this film stand out
"I didn't ask to be born this way."
"Funny; neither did we."
I'm on the autism spectrum. Parents who say things like that are not "afraid for" their special-needs kid; they wish their kid was "normal" so they wouldn't have to deal with their problems. That's how the Dad treats Norman throughout the whole film, and is the sole reason I find it unwatchable.
That reminder that I hope Burton and Selick make a stop motion film of Medievil.
Pretty sure they stopped making stop action movies after that one movie about the girl and those 2 demons
ParaNorman is one of the few stop motion films that I like, Next to Coraline. Other than that I'm not that big a fan of stop motion stuff, I mean I don't hate it but I can certain appreciate it because like all animation stop motion is an art.
Well said. It’s a great Film
A Haunted Fact: The scene where Norman visits Mr. Prenderghast's house was meant as a complete haunted house experience, and director Chris Butler notes that he was actually somewhat scared by the teddy bear with insects bursting out from its mouth. Co-director Sam Fell describes the image as more "Eastern European surrealist disturbing kind of stuff."
Is Norman’s dad worse than Chicken Little’s dad?
Then again Little’s dad never directly said he hated him. 🤔
I once said, "The misunderstood are sometimes the ones rejected, and some can show they are not the ones to be feared but loved and cared."
Soooo true💯💯
The right way to do a sympathetic antagonist RIGHT! And properly.
Shrek would approve.
@@estebangutierrez160 Onions have layers.
A messed up thing that gets me more is how she died. (If you don't wanna think about this depressing fact, dont read)
I mean, they hung her.
A child.
When people are hung, their necks are meant to break and give them a quick death. If it doesn't break, then you are left there to suffocate to death....
Kids aren't heavy enough for the quicker option, so she had to wait and watch as the townspeople continued to condemn her and celebrate that the ‘witch’ is perishing.
This movie (like many Laika movies) is often worth breaking out a vr headset and finding a means of watching it in 3d.
Coraline and ParaNorman are one of my favorite laika studio movies
Especially Box trolls
Kubo as well is amazing.
PARANORMAN! Underrated gem! Called it! Happy spooky season 🎃
It’s fantastic and Happy Halloween🎃🎃🎃
First killer clowns THEN paranorman? Best nostalgiaween yet
Agreed! Mary and Max is amazing! 2009 was one of my favorite years for film, especially with Coraline, Fantastic Fox and Where the Wild Things Are. I was starting my senior year in August and I could feel something shifting as we entered the 2010’s
That twist about the “Witch” of the town was amazing, & this movie was more mature than many “adult” animated shows. It was a good example about the corruption of mob mentality on par with McCarthyism. Speaking of stop-motion movies, Doug should DEFINATELY review Guillermo Del Toro’s take on “Pinocchio”! ❤
“What’ch you watching?”
“Sex and violence.”
This line deserves far more love
Funny enough, even though this movie came out after Coraline, I watched ParaNorman more times than I did Coraline when I was a kid.
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Same here my dude
He's finally doing it, I feel like this has been getting review requests for years...and it should!
Malcolm has that Tony Todd impression down pat.
Stupid fast refreshers always posting before i do. Btw Great review.
wait i actually won?
I would've included the Lumity kiss during the 'Puritanical zombie freakout' scene, but this movie already had a respectful gay joke, so it evens out.
Fun Fact:
The release date of this episode coincides with Jodelle Ferland's (Aggie) 30th birthday!
The dead Grandma calls the dad who is also her son " Jackass " Thats some Sugar Mama and Oscar right there
I remember my grandma taking me and my older brother to see this movie. Though I'm not sure how Norman and Agatha could be related since she died as a child. Unless she had siblings.
I FREAKIN KNEW IT, WE ALLL KNEW IT
Sooooo true💯
People knew it, I always thought it is Monsters Inc. Anyways, A perfect stop-motion animated film for Halloween, alongside Coraline, Corpse Bride and Frankenweenie. It was way back in 2012, where stop motion movies where overshadowed by massive blockbuster movies.
2012 was an awesome year for movies, IMHO
Question: What happened with Tamera?
she was dressed up as corpse bride
@@A-Microwave No, that's not Tamera. That's another cast member.
She decided she wanted to pursue other opportunities in Hollywood and just wanted to move on it happens but she has said whenever Doug needs Hyper Fangirl she will return
Yes! I’ve been waiting for you to review Paranorman for years! Such a beautiful film and an underrated classic. The stop motion is gorgeous (Agatha’s animation in particular is stellar) and while the story is simple the character’s emotions is what carries the film. I love that Norman had common ground with Agatha and it’s chilling to know that if Norman lived in the 1690s he would have been killed because of his powers.
I also like that Agatha and Norman are cousins, it helps explain why he and his Uncle are able to communicate with ghosts.
I love Laika’s films and I can’t wait for their new movie Wildwood to release.
Bringing up memoir of a snail and Mary and max was amazing!!! So excited for Snail!!!
A stop motion classic
One of the best animated movies of 2012
5:12 Statler: You know, if I didn’t know better, it sounded like you were reciting some sort of an important plot point!
If you wanna do a great horror movie from the 80s, do the Italian giallo horror movie Demons (1985) aka Demoni (1985). Anyone who grew up in the age of video rental will recognize it from the shelf. Killer effects, lighting, and a banging 80s soundtrack set this apart. Show em some love.
Paranorman is definitely one of those movies I love revisiting this time of year. It has the most heart of any Halloween movie that I can think of and, growing up feeling alone, really resonates with me.
It may not be as well known as Coraline, but ParaNorman is still a spooky classic in its own right too.
They’re both good, IMO.💯
0:49 ooh, Nintendo Power
I saw this movie mostly blind a couple of years ago and I was legit STUNNED at some of the stuff that happens in it.
6:26 OK, that's a good one. 8:18 Never apologize for a good opportunity for a BIG LEBOWSKI clip.
11:43 They did WHAT?! Well then, over to XVideos I... think someone would go.
15:14 Also funny to see fictional characters outside "Shaun of the Dead" and "Zombieland" who watched enough zombie movies.
15:23 And Ham-fisted! 18:02 - 18:20 Also topical! And needed to be said!
Notification club! Always love and look forward to Nostalgia-ween! 😊❤️
Same here. October is gonna be EPIC!
6:45 Aren't you glad movies like Fright Night exist?
That last scene with Agatha's ghost is one of the most beautiful and ambitious scenes I've seen in an animated film. I even put it as an entry for a character design challenge on Facebook one October ago, when the theme was "ghosts". I consider it one of my most ambitious works. The ghost was actually a sculpted puppet and all those exaggerated faces she made were sculpted too, the CGI only enhances her appearance to add spectrality. It is the ultimate marriage of stop-motion and CGI in this film. And I love every last bit of it.
Oh, wow! What good timing! Just saw Paranorman on someone's Twitch stream about an hour ago! It's one of the best stop motion movies. They even showed how they did the stop motion at the end! They're truly underrated! It must take A LOT of patience to do that!
To be honest it’s ultra rare for an animated film to take place in Massachusetts
So that's how Danny DeVito got stuck in a room with Raoul Duke and Barry B. Benson
A Cursed Zombies Name Fact: Save for Judge Hopkins, the seven cursed zombies are not referred to by name, but they did have names: the aforementioned Judge Hopkins, Eben Hardwick, Thaddeus Blackton, Lemuel Spalding, Amelia Wilcot, Goodie Temper, and Wile London.
ParaNorman is probably one of the best thematically structured films out there in the sense that all of its themes, characters, and ideas tie up together in a neat little bow. It goes to show that the execution of a movie's themes is far more important than the themes itself.
ParaNorman's third act is one of my favorite third acts of any movie, and it's a shame that Laika hasn't been able to make a thematically coherent film since it.
My family keeps gaslighting me to believe I've watched this movie before, but I'm 100% sure I haven't
Yes, I've been waiting for you to put this movie on Nostalgiaween.
People get freaked out about killing a child in a horror film, and here you have a kid's film doing it. But it's done in a deep and respectful way to show the cruelties in the past and how to help someone who is hurting. And I like the twist of the zombies not being bad people, they were people who did a horrible thing and wish to rectify it somehow. It's a really well done plot and theme.
6:54-7:05
Best joke of the review for me.
Casper meets wendy or spirited beginnings pls
Doug: I do like Villains that are Just Evil too
Belos: *Cough*
A Cool Fact: Co-director Sam Fell mentioned that their introduction to Norman's family is an homage to Steven Spielberg's 80s films that always introduced their slightly dysfunctional families in the kitchen.
Anyone seen Mad God? Hell of a stop motion movie.
I might see that at some point
I was right about the first one. But maybe someday, you should review Corpse Bride
True. Corpse Bride was fantastic
@@chasehedges6775 I agree. Truly a Tim Burton classic
Laika movies are way too underrated, heck stopmotion doesn't get enough love
They’re brilliant and perfect for animation as an art form. Especially Laika.
No words, just gratitude that a movie like this exists and people, like Doug here, appreciate it 😊 ❤
A Insane Fact: The bathroom scene where Mr. Prenderghast appears out of the toilet took over a year to animate from beginning to end. It was the work of one animator too.
You pointed out some great details that make this film spectacular. The fact that they were willing to put forward a real message without watering it down so that children and adult alike could take something away from it without feeling like they're being talked down to.
However, the thing that makes it truly genius is if you consider the story without any changes. The idea that a truly adult situation with real consequence is never addressed and only ever made to play by childish rules to make it go to sleep for a little while longer until we have to get up and do it again. that is what makes this film great.
I love good stories and I never let my age or the medium get in the way of enjoying them. I was a young adult when I first watched this film and it went right into my collection. The fact that everything is not wrapped up in a bow so we can all bid our darkened spirits goodbye and return to our happy little worlds makes it worthy of being prized above nearly all other stories.
The confrontation between Norman and Agatha is the best part of a great story. The idea that it does not all culminate into a, well that happened, diatribe, that he has to face down the horror that has grown and changed faces, it makes me cry just thinking about it.
Whoever wrote this story is a genius. I don't care if everything else they write is crap, this is their own glorious moment in the sun. I will forever treasure the memory of this movie which has helped to spur my own creativity and dive into my dark side while giving shape and reason to it. Thank you for showcasing it.
This film has probably one of the best third acts I've seen in any animated film honestly. Looking at the trailers you'd think this was a typical kids horror flick, but it's so much more poignent and mature than that.
A Filming Fact: The film was shot using a Canon 5D Mark II DSLR Camera. To generate the 3D effects, the camera was mounted on a special rig that would take one shot, then slide to a slightly different viewpoint to take another shot.
I agree that the judge not smiling in the end is a perfect send-off. However, sometimes I find myself desiring him to do something more. Perhaps even a small gesture like simply saying Agatha’s name would have been powerful, proving that in the end, he understood his own crimes were unforgivable. While this was technically addressed by him earlier in the movie, a simple apology, even if it’s just further cementing that he understands he deserves damnation, would've completed his character for me.
You really should review Isle of Dogs someday.