Inside Out is a 3D Disney Pixar animated film released earlier this year on June 19th, directed by Pete Docter and Ronnie Del Carmen. The film is about an 11-year-old girl named Riley, whose life completely changes as she moves from Minnesota to San Francisco, while simultaneously following the story of the emotions inside her mind – Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Fear, and Anger – as they guide her through this drastic change in her life. As the story progresses, we follow Joy and Sadness as they attempt to return back to Headquarters, after Sadness and Joy squabble with each over Riley’s core memories; ultimately leaving Riley only with Disgust, Fear and Anger to guide her, eventually allowing her to slowly fall into depression. The film is quite …show more content…
The control console being disabled and turning dark can be seen as a metaphorical example of someone becoming depressed, in which Riley was numb unable to feel any emotions. Moreover, at this point Joy has finally realized that Sadness’ existence is crucial to Riley’s emotions, and without the emotion of sadness Riley would not be able to feel Joy’s emotion of happiness. Joy urges Sadness to take control of the control console, something in the past Joy would never let Sadness do. As a result, Sadness re-enables the control console and removes Anger’s idea bulb, thus allowing Riley to regain a sense of emotion as she pleas to get off the bus and then returns home. Furthermore, Joy allows Sadness to touch the core memories turning them sad, which in turn causes Riley to cry as she is then embraced by her parents. Subsequently, a new core memory is born from both Sadness and Joy taking control of the console together, allowing Riley to feel both emotions simultaneously. This being the denouement of the story in which Joy and Sadness have finally come to understand each other. A lesson to be learned from watching Inside Out is to embrace all of our emotions, whether they may be happy, sad, mad, disgust, fear, surprised, lonely, jealous, guilt, etc., embracing and expressing our …show more content…
The death of Riley’s childhood imaginary friend, Bing Bong, both metaphorically and literally signifies this. Overall, Inside Out is a very bright and vibrantly colored film and is very much visually stimulating. Although, about three-fourths through the film the viewer can notice a distinct shift in the tone and value where the overall shade and lighting become slightly darker. My favorite scene throughout the movie is definitely a tear jerker; the scene begins with the destruction of Family Island as Sadness and Joy race to head back to headquarters to stop Riley from running away. As Family Island ruins it tears open a Long Term Memory recall tube and Joy and Sadness decide to enter and get recalled back to Headquarters. The camera shakes to further capture Family Island’s destruction, and switches from a mid angle shot of the characters running to the recall and an extreme long shot of Long Term memory being destroyed. Unfortunately, out of Joy’s selfishness to make Riley happy again she does not allow Sadness to enter the recall tube as she would make the core memories sad; the scene slowly zooms closer onto Joy’s face create a close-up shot. Although, it is out of that same selfishness that leads to Joy’s ultimate demise as the recall tube breaks and Joy falls into the abyss that is the Memory Dump; Bing Bong attempts