Sadness and Joy should be treated as equals. This concept is portrayed in Disney Pixar’s Inside Out, when the protagonist Riley struggles to come to terms with her sentiments on moving from a small town to San Francisco. As she attempts to grasp her emotions, she refuses to acknowledge that her dejection is substantially the reason for her frustration. Pixar reveals that experiences are not appointed to one single emotion, but that each contributes to emotional comprehension, by assigning human characteristics to the different emotions and illuminating comparisons between society and the characters. Pixar uncovers the reality that each emotion has a purpose in the understanding of feelings by administering human attributes in order to shine a light on the unawareness of society. The audience gets a view inside Riley’s mind and the emotions: Joy, Anger, Disgust, Fear, and Sadness each …show more content…
The character Joy always wants to be in authority over Riley’s emotional experiences; she refuses to acknowledge Sadness’ role in helping Riley grow up. Joy finds ways to keep Sadness in a corner and away from the control center of Riley’s mind, just as society tends to treat depression and sorrow with contempt. Instead of accepting that other emotions are equally as important in experiences, society and Joy just want to recognize the jovial moments in life. Similarly, when Riley and her family first move into the new home in San Francisco, her mom explains to her to ignore her father’s stress and just “put a smile on her face”. Instead of encouraging Riley come to terms with her unhappiness, her mom advices her that she will get through it by bottling up her feelings, as society leans toward praising happiness and suppressing “negative” emotions. The connections to reality, assists the audience in accepting the
O’Connor designed the character of Joy to encompass the isolation of the Modernist movement.To distinguish and remove herself from the people around her, Joy seeks a PhD in Philosophy thus creating an educational barrier between her mother, Mrs. Freeman, Glynese, Carramae, and herself.
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
Each named emotion expresses Riley’s feelings after seeing the world through her eyes on a big projection screen. When something whens that would give Riley joy, the character, Joy, has the job to make Riley feel that way. The Two Factor theory explains we feel an emotion by first coming in contact with the stimulus, become physically aroused by it and cognitively label the feeling we have is an emotion, and then experience the emotion. This lines up very closely with the process of the characters choosing how to make Riley feel. They witness the stimulus RIley is in contact with, the named emotion whose job is producing that emotion comes forward to make themself known, and finally she feels that
Life is full of emotions, whether it be happy or sad. It is what keeps everyone going.
Joy is a complex character because she is determined to not become her mother or like the people of her community, especially Mrs. Freeman. Earning her doctorate was a way for Joy to distinguish herself from her home. Joy desired freedom yet due to her poor health condition she
We are also introduced to the one of the Main characters Joy. Although her name could be referred to as rejoice, gladness, and happiness, she is the exact opposite. This irony begins from the beginning of the story. Every morning Joy would “get up, lumber into the bathroom and slam the door”(O’Conner 261) before she even spoke to anybody. We learn that she took the academic root and received a PhD in Philosophy, which made her a nihilist and indifferent to other people and to the world. We also find out that she changes her name from Joy to Hulga once she turns twenty one, which has an uglier connotation to it when compared to her previous name. Joy-Hulga creates this fantasy of herself that she is better than other people and more sophisticated because of her age and her degree, but despite this, she acts like a child. She would wear a six-year-old skirt and a yellow sweatshirt with a faded cowboy on a horse embossed on it
In Brave New World, the author suggests that we should seek something else in life other than our happiness by using characters that believe they are happy, and characters who do not. Some characters are happy because they rule over others with dominance and authority. While other characters struggle with internal and external happiness because they are put in a life not suited for natural human functionability. Happiness is defined by the leaders and model citizens of World State by crossing a terror with a false happiness. For example, Mustapha Mond states that “You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford’s:
Our parents raise us hoping for us to develop certain character traits, but there comes to a point when we start to become our own person based on the experiences we go through, any situation, good or bad, can influence our personality mentally and emotionally. Emotion is what makes us human, it's how we cope and how we manage our crazy lives’. When our feelings get damaged or even nourished, it will change how we react
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace. (- Chuck Palahniuk) There are times in which people feel ecstatic or overjoyed for some reason. We may ask them why but their answer would probably be “because I’m happy”. People might not think about it but we might ask ourselves, what does it mean to be happy. In Macbeth his happiness was to have the throne of his cousin while in Federigo’s Falcon it was to have the woman he loved by his side. In the video, The Science of Happiness, gratitude is what makes us as humans truly happy.
Pixar’s Inside Out is an interesting take on how our emotions work as well as how our brains operate. The story starts off with a narration by Joy, voiced by Amy Poehler, explaining how her job works, and how she and the other emotions came to be inside the mind of young Riley Anderson. The emotions watch and guide Riley by influencing how she reacts to different daily situations. The only thing the emotions are not prepared for however, is an unexpected move from Minnesota to San Francisco (Inside Out). This hilarious take at how our brains work allows Inside Out to create an entertaining and engaging movie using character interaction and its deeper emotional and psychological meanings.
The movie ‘In & Out’ is an excellent example of emotional development. As the movie was geared towards a younger audience, older views could enjoy it as well. This is due to the subliminal message about child growth and behavior. Although each emotion is seen as a disaster, when working alone, they learn to increasingly trust each other and consider each others ideas. Each specific personality portrayed in this movie has its own identity.
The world seems to be a dark and unforgiving place, but happiness is hidden within. It is found in a beautiful view, an uplifting song, or a compliment from a friend. According to the Ted Talk video, The Habits of Happiness, Matthieu Ricard claims that everyone “has a deep, profound desire for well-being or happiness”(Ricard 2:39). Ricard uses the three techniques of Ethos, Pathos, and Logos to captivate and move his audience. With the use of metaphors, personal experiences, and even graphs Matthieu explained to his audience the full force and perception of the bendable word that is happiness. This Ted Talk dove into philosophical meaning on just how to achieve well-being, without having everything in the world.
For one climatic hour of Louise’s life, she truly tastes joy. For one hour of emotion, she does
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.
determined to find his satisfaction in life. As a result of his child abuse, Will continuously tries to