Are movies able to think? This question is usually answered with no or how would a movie even think? Although these answers aren't particularly wrong, there's another answer to that question that mixes things up a bit. Yes. The camera's point of view and a two dimensional screen are usually all we get out of a movie. Bits and pieces of what characters are really thinking are shown, nothing too in depth or complicated about it. However, ‘Inside Out’ is the exception. ‘Inside Out’ makes it possible to see into the mind of a character. On the outside, Riley, the movie's main character, is a typical 11 year old. Unfortunately uprooted from her home in Minnesota to live in San Francisco for her father's job, Riley has a tough transition into the new town, sports and school. Usually a happy girl, Riley begins to argue at the dinner table and fails to get onto the hockey team, leading her deeper into an unhappy state of mind. Although all of these events happen to her, like most people, Riley is guided by her emotions. There are joy, anger, fear, sadness and disgust. These emotions are located in Riley's mind, and we as the audience are able to see them physically. Throughout the movie, they help her with her everyday life and decision making process. …show more content…
Everyone wants everyone to be happy, however, this persistence to always be happy takes a toll. The "manager" of the group, Joy, knit picks and contains Sadness's gloominess. Joy believes that she needs to keep Sadness's hands off of Riley's core memories. These memories are golden orbs that will be ruined if they ever turned blue. Joy, at one point in the movie, draws a circle on the floor and tells Sadness to stand inside it. She continues to tell Sadness not to touch anything because she could disturb the happy
Riley describes her victim’s reaction, “She was destroyed. I was one of her best friends and I crushed her.” She did not feel any satisfaction. Riley did not feel stronger putting others down. She was ashamed and knew what she did was wrong but she says, “The thing is that I already hated myself. I hated myself for being bullied in past and I hated myself for being pathetic. I was so insecure and weak that I couldn't hate myself more in order to stop.” Riley would have done anything to be popular, and she was disgusted by this. However, she concedes that she was too scared to give up the yearn for superiority she held since the first time she
about Riley how is trying to adapt to her new environment in San Francisco. This transition causes her behaviour to change. In the film, Inside Out, it discusses the socio-cultural principles that influences Riley's behaviour.
From start to finish, the audience watches Riley grow from a newborn baby into a blossoming twelve year old girl. One of the first developmental processes that appears is the aspect of easy temperament (256). Riley is a joyous little girl who promotes an excited and positive attitude quite constantly. The first portrayal of anger comes at the dinner table, but it is quickly deterred by a quick airplane technique that grasp the attention of the young toddler. The positive outlook and generally cheerful attitude is a slight but insightful indicator of an easy temperament child (256). Her entire disposition throughout the entire film stays majoritily positive. As we will later see in the upcoming paragraphs, proper parenting and emotional responses help lead to the easy and positive temperament of Riley.
It is a rarity that I will change my mind regarding a movie, but this is one of those times. Disney/Pixar’s “Inside Out” was not only entertaining, but challenged the way that I look at emotions. It’s the kind of film that will stay with you even after you’ve left the theatre, and in doing so will spark you to recall memories from your own childhood. It avoids clichés that most animated films fall into, which makes it feel completely new and refreshing. The material is also accessible to everyone given its main content. Young Riley, our 11 year old heroine, is uprooted from her happy life in the Midwest to the bustling city of San Francisco. Her father has taken a new job, and must relocate the family. Riley, like most everyone, is guided specifically by her emotions which take place in the “control center” of her mind. Riley and her emotions, Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust, and Sadness struggle to navigate through a new home, new school, and new friends. The conflict comes when Sadness wants to play a bigger role in Riley’s life, but is constantly pushed to the side by Joy. Joy, voiced perfectly by the very talented Amy Poehler, is a yellow, almost fairy-like character reminiscent of a more mature Tinkerbell. Sadness (Phyllis Smith) is recessive, soft-spoken, and, as one would imagine, blue. Fear is voiced by the extremely versatile actor, Bill Hader. He is a lanky, purple, almost bug-eyed character whose body could almost be described as a question mark. Fear, of course, tends
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Finally, the torture is over as she hears the bell ring. She can escape the judgment of those cheerleaders as she speeds to her next class. As she races through the halls, buried beneath her books, she bumps into someone. Her materials scatter across the floor. Her heart races. Her face lights up like a fire. Everyone’s critical of her… or so she
Had I watched this Inside Out at different points over the semester, I would have been able to find different flaws each time. This movie is supposed to be about Riley, but it turns out to be centered around the journey that Joy and Sadness must take in order to return to headquarters, more specifically, it validates sadness as an emotion. Sadness spent her first eleven years with Riley being told to stay back and not to screw anything up, in reality, sadness is often frowned upon, because for some people, they are the opposite of Riley’s character. This movie shows that the happiest of children can go through life changing struggles and embrace their other emotions. You cannot appreciate being happy unless you have known being sad, this movie brings attention to the necessity of a balance in life.
Inside Out is the story of emotions in the girl named Riley.In Inside Out here are the main characters Joy, Sadness, Bing Bong, Fear ,Riley, Anger, Riley's mom, and Riley's dad. And Inside Out takes place in her brain and it also takes place when Riley moves. The plot of Inside Out is about managing her emotions.
This is shown when Sadness adds blue hues to the originally yellow hued images of Riley’s memories of her life in Minnesota. This shows that our current emotions often shape what we remember of the past. Sadness serves several functions in the film, but most importantly, it allows Riley to recognize that the changes she is going through have created loss. One might be inclined to think of sadness as a state of inaction, but in “Inside Out,” as in real life, sadness and anger prompts people to comfort and help. We see this in Riley’s first angry outburst at the dinner table that leads to Riley to be sent to her room.
However the leading roles in the movie are not Riley and her family, but Riley’s primary emotions: Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Disgust. These emotions are inspired by American Psychologist Robert Plutchik who proposed we have eight basic emotions that can be arranged on a wheel of opposites: joy and sadness, anger and fear, trust and disgust, anticipation and surprise. In the film, each memory is represented by a glowing ball whose colors match one of the movies five emotions: yellow for joy, blue for sadness, red for anger, purple for fear, and green for disgust. Throughout the movie these emotions depict what it is like for Riley moving to a different city away from her friends, her hockey team, and trying to be happy about it for the sake of her
This can be shown early on in the movie, when Joy puts Sadness in the “Circle Of Sadness,” and doesn't allow Sadness to do anything, when Joy refuses to allow a sad core memory, a memory that gives riley personality, into the vault where core memories are kept, or when Joy leaves behind sadness to get
There are 6 valid emotions; in the movie, Inside Out 5 of them are personified. Joy was the lead emotion in Inside Out however; you find that all the emotions are important through her narration. She states that, Disgust keeps Riley safe by pointing out the “gross” in everything, Anger keeps her safe by protecting her from others and improves her hockey skills, Fear keeps her safe by imaging the worst scenarios possible, Sadness keeps her safe by helping her to adjust to situations, and Joy keeps her happy. In the film Joy was clearly in charge, she narrated the film and at ‘Headquarters’ she gave everyone their assignments when Riley woke up. Joy kept all the emotions in check; she looked for ways for the other emotions to reveal themselves
During the pre-adolescent years, the brain is under major construction, but still is able to process information, and make firm decisions based on emotions. In addition, when a child gets older, their personality evolves, and their relationships with others grow and change. In the film, Riley’s actions were determined by her emotion at that moment, which impacted her relationship with her parents and best friend. Also, Riley’s personality evolved when she got older. Her personality expanded to include thoughts about boys, fashion and other teenager thoughts (Doctor & Carmen, 2015).
Brian heard the screaming from around the corner as he ran, from his sick classmates. He grabbed Mia’s hand as he ran, pulling her into the library where they barricaded the door, and hopped that whatever was outside would soon go away. As they sat Brian thought about his sister Alica, his best friend Tyler, and the rest of the theater club. Hoping that they were ok, but also knowing that they could become one of them at any moment. When Brian looked at Mia he could see the fear, and the tears building up her eyes. He held her hand tighter, and tried to give her a reassuring look, even though the possibilities of them ever getting out were slim to none.
In analyzing Riley Andersen through the psychosocial theory of development, it is important to understand what is going on in her life throughout the events of the film. The psychosocial theory “addresses growth across the life span, identifying and differentiating central issues from infancy to elderhood” (Newman & Newman, 2014, p. 62). In the beginning of the film, Riley is 11 years old and is in the Middle Childhood life stage (6-12 years old). The developmental tasks during this stage include friendship, concrete operations, skill learning, self-evaluation, and team play (Newman & Newman, 2014). As seen in the film, Riley is a social child with many friends while living in Minnesota. She is a successful member of a hockey team, and is able to relate to others in a positive manner. It appears that Riley has successfully accomplished the developmental tasks associated with Middle Childhood. When Riley moves to San Francisco, she is forced to restart these developmental tasks with a brand-new group of peers. Although she tries to connect with other students in her new classroom, she struggles with making friends and can only think of getting back to her old friends in Minnesota. She also