Emotions In The Film 'Inside Out'

The film Inside Out tells the story of a young girl named Riley and her changing emotions after she is forced to move from her home town in Minnesota to San Fransico for her father’s job. The story is told from the perspective of her five emotions. Riley’s emotions are led by Joy, who attempts to guide her through the stressful event. Although Joy puts forth great effort, Sadness takes over. When trying to protect Riley’s core memories from Sadness, Joy is swept from headquarters through the dump tube and Sadness follows. With Joy and Sadness gone, Anger, Fear, and Disgust are the only emotions left in headquarters; therefore, Riley cannot be happy or sad. Because Joy and Sadness are absent, Riley’s personality islands diminish one by one. Riley fights with her family, pushes away from her friends back home, and loses interest in hockey. As Joy and Sadness navigate through Riley’s brain in search of a way back to headquarters, they encounter many obsticles. Back in headquarters, Anger, Fear, and Disgust place the idea of running away into Riley’s head. Joy witnesses the transformation of a sad memory into a happy memory, and finally realizes the importance of all emotions, including Sadness. With the help of Bing Bong, Riley’s imaginary friend, Joy and Sadness find their way back to headquarters and are able to stop Riley from running away. An update in headquarters takes place, and more personality islands develop. Joy learns to accept the

Pixar’s film, Inside Out, addresses our relationship to our feelings in a sophisticated way for adults and kids to understand and enjoy. Joy, Anger, Disgust, Sadness, and Fear, the five emotions that dwell in the inner world of a young girl named Riley. Joy is the team leader and she displays compassion and demonstrates the aspect of her that permits her to be happy. Anger is very passionate about making sure things work out fairly for Riley. Disgust is highly opinionated and tries to protect her from poisonous situations whether physically or socially. Sadness was used to signal when Riley needed comfort and support. Finally, Fear, he is always on the lookout and I used to protect her. All five of the emotions contribute to build up Riley’s personality. She is upbeat, honest, cheerful, somewhat neurotic, etc.

According to Adler and Proctor (2011), it talks about responding to transgressions and some examples to that would be coming to an acceptance, rejection and discussion. In the movie “Inside out” we discover how all the emotions try to steer the way to control the little girl “Riley” mind but one specific character by the name of “Joy” is basically the one in charge of them all and tries to take on more of the responsibility in situations. Throughout the movie something happens to Riley and her emotions

Riley’s negative attitude started when they were driving to their new house because the journey was long and boring. California was different it was densely populated and the houses there were small. When she enters her new home for the first time. The writer of the movie shows us how riles mind works. They are five main key players that control Riley’s emotions. Joy has been always glowing and was responsible for making her happy. Sadness was dark and always had a sad face, she was the opposite of joy and was always sad about everything. Anger always had a bad temper. Disgust was always picky since she was a kid, she has always refused to eat vegetables. Fear was the last one of the five who worked in the headquarters.

In the book Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai, the author shows a constant topic of loss, which lead me to believe that the theme of Inside Out and Back Again is that throughout our lives, we lose people and sometimes we choose not to accept that loss, but we have to realize that the only way we can truly lose them is if we forget what they lived for. This theme was shown in Inside Out and Back Again through Ha’s memory and loss of her father and the change she experiences and people she loses when she escapes from war. In, my life this theme is shown through the loss of my grandfather and a different kind of loss I experienced when my best friend Mahru moved away to Kazakhstan.

In the novel “Inside Out and Back Again” written by Thanhha Lai, it’s explained how a young girl by the name of Ha and her family struggles when fleeing their homes due to the war. It describes all the new things she has to learn and the struggles she faces during this time. When they were forced to leave their country they had to adapt to many things such as new culture, a new language and different new kinds of food. When they find a new home they have to adapt to their different life styles. This makes the refugees feel like their life is turning upside down. Has life is related to the refugee experience because she had to go through many down through living as a refugee.

At the beginning of the film, Riley and her parents live in Minnesota, where she has friends, enjoys her school, is a valued member of an ice hockey team, and has an all-around happy life. The movie’s introduction depicts a typical day of Riley’s life in Minnesota, during which all five of the emotion characters properly fulfill their functions and leave Riley in a normal state. Joy provides happiness for the young girl. Sadness provides Riley moments of comfort from her parents and emotional bonding between Riley and her parents. Fear keeps her from hurting herself by prompting a cautionary response. Likewise, Disgust and Anger fulfill their intended, beneficial roles, thereby fulfilling their manifest functions. At the end of the day, Joy congratulates her counterparts, telling them, “Nice job, everybody. Another perfect day.”

As the film begins, it is clear from the start that the emotions care a great deal for Riley. As the primary emotion, Joy takes it upon herself to be the leader of the group and does everything in her power to make sure every moment of Riley’s day is a happy one. Sadness, voiced by Phyllis Smith, is not sure of her purpose in Riley’s mind, so her fellow emotions attempt to keep her involvement to a minimum, in fear of putting a damper on Riley’s mood. The rest of the emotions, Anger (Lewis Black), Disgust (Mindy Kaling), and Fear (Bill Hader), keep Riley’s life fair, poison free, physically and socially, and safe, respectively (Inside Out). A stand out character who appears is Bing Bong, voiced by Richard Kind, Riley’s imaginary friend from when she was a

Riley is eleven in this movie and what I wonder the most about this movie is how children her age and younger portrayed it. I feel that the younger viewers of this movie could have gone home thinking that this was how their emotions worked also.

Emotion regulation refers to any attempted process, successful or unsuccessful, that acts upon the emotion. Emotions may be positive (e.g., happy, proud) or negative (e.g., sad, anxious) in valence and can also vary in intensity, with the same stimulus evoking different responses in individuals. For example, a picture of a dog might evoke joy for a dog-lover and fear for someone afraid of dogs. Even the same person may experience different emotions depending on the context. If someone’s dog has just died, seeing a picture of a dog could evoke sadness and longing. Imagine that an adolescent girl sees two of her peers whispering and snickering during lunch. This event may trigger multiple emotional reactions, including the experience of anxiety and sadness. Consider the variety of processes this girl could engage in and how they might affect her emotions; she could dwell on and brood about the experience, prolonging her sadness; she could think about the situation differently (e.g., as having nothing to do with her), diminishing her sadness; she could do something to distract herself from her emotions (e.g., eat lunch), temporarily alleviating her anxiety; and/or she could worry about what the girls are saying, maintaining her anxiety. There are many more possibilities and each one may lead to a cascade of interactions within the adolescent and her interaction with

As in life, each of the emotions in Riley’s headquarters, her mind, has a purpose or job. Joy’s job is to make sure Riley remains happy and tries to find the fun in every situation. She also seems to be the emotion who directs the other emotions, the one in charge. Joy accepts each challenge as an opportunity to turn the situation into a happy memory. She tries very hard to keep Sadness away from Riley’s happy memories and turning them into a sad memory. Our textbook states happiness as progressing toward the realization of a goal. (Feist, 2015, p. 419) Joy’s attitude towards life goes

One of the most obvious examples of psychology in Inside Out is the number and nature of the main emotions present in Riley’s head. As we studied in lesson 10, according to Eckman, there are six basic human emotions: joy, fear, sadness, anger, disgust, and surprise. In Inside Out, only five of these emotions are represented, leaving surprise out in order to simplify (Roper, n.p.).

“Inside Out” is a Disney Pixar movie that came out in 2015, and believe it or not, it connects with what I have learned this year in Psychology 101. For starters, this movie is obviously a children’s movie. The main character’s name is Riley and Riley was living her dream in the Midwest having more friends than she could count. She was on a successful hockey team which she excelled in and she was oh-so close with her two parents. All of a sudden, her dad gets a job offer in San Francisco and the family proceeds to pack up and move across the country. The movie focus’ on Riley’s emotions: Sadness, Anger, Fear, Disgust, and Joy. These emotions become characters in the movie and get all riled up as Riley’s life flips upside down. The movie shows

The film Inside Out (2015) produced and directed by Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Pictures, is a movie based on the emotions of a 11-year-old girl called Riley. The film’s principal characters are five emotions located in Riley’s brain. These emotions are Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Fear, and Anger. All of them work together inside Riley’s mind to accomplish one goal: Her Happiness. Everything revolves around Riley because she is facing a hard move with her family from Minnesota to San Francisco, leading to big changes around his life, attitude, and behavior. Most of the movie is set inside Riley’s mind, where the emotions operate her brain’s control center. The film explains that our brain has functions that control our responses to certain situations, and the ways that we handle these situations are controlled by our emotions. Also, it explains that our personalities and identities are defined by certain emotions, which shape how we handle and express to specific situations. The decisions and actions that the emotions choose to do in Riley’s life will drive the plot. Inside Out (2015) will not only explain through its colors, lighting, and camera shots the storyline of the movie, but also the importance of emotions and how they play a big role in our lives.

Emotion plays a very important role in memory process. Before you can fully understand the role of emotion, you have to understand the memory process. There are three steps to the memory process, encoding, storage, and retrieval. If you do not fully understand memory process then it’ll be difficult to comprehend the role emotions play and the movie Inside Out, although it may be a kid’s movie, is a great way to develop a better understanding on the memory process. The movie Inside Out is about a pre-teen girl’s emotions; joy, sadness, anger, fear, and disgust, and how they all work together to help create her memories and get through life. Before I get ahead on myself however, let’s talk about the memory process.