Inside Out

It's somewhat better.

Are we still comparing the emotions to characters from other works?

• Joy = Adam
• Sadness = Jamie
• Fear = Grant
• Anger = Tory
• Disgust = Kari

So, is Lust a part of Joy, or is it shared with all the emotions?

Are those the Mythbusters people?

You got it.

Wouldn't the movie have a lot of explosions, then? ;P

Must be Michael Bay's emotions, in that case.

The emotions spend their free time trying to determine if the filmmaker's stunt ideas were plausible? Ha!

Smart Girl:I dont know why, but I keep thinking disgust and Anger run pretty high everytime you read my post

Now I have seen a lot of people here post the typical "how your emotion act and look like" or "how the emotions work in X chararter" so I bring this question:

Wow do you think the emotions work with your chararters? only the humans one since aliens,elf,deamons and other stuff should work diferently,

On the contrary, I think emotions work similarly for anything with a consciousness. Some might be more relaxed about the controls, or more dominant, or have one emotion that tends to override the others. But they'd have emotions nonetheless.

Demons have feelings too, y'know?

What would Michael Bay's movie be called? .... Mind Blown.

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

edited 3rd Sep '15 7:39:03 PM by SmartGirl333

That was actually pretty funny.

they have it? yes but not in the same way humans does, so it end it become more of a "who inside their head looks like" than "how their emotions work"

edited 4th Sep '15 12:01:42 AM by unknowing

So how exactly are emotions different for these creatures, then?

Just saw the movie again. Not in English as I'd hoped (it was not up to me) but still, not only I enjoyed it again but I noticed details I missed the first time- like the fact that Sadness correctly stated her purpose for existing during her first private conversation with Joy (without even realizing it.)

Also, I hate to admit it but, if we ignore the events going on in her Mental World, Riley *does* come across as a whiny brat who runs away from home just from being unhappy about moving. That does seem out of proportion.

I'm not sure how having a mental breakdown in class, running away, and starting to fall into depression counts as being a 'whiny brat'. One of the main themes of the movie is that extremely minor things from an outside perspective can be huge, important things to an individual person. This especially applies to children.

I think it's a combination of such a big change in Riley's life (even for adults, the change to a small town to a large city can be very stressful) and Joy basically suppressing every other emotion (especially Sadness), thus making Riley unequipped to deal with the change. And like MediaCritic said, what's a big deal to a child isn't the same thing for an adult.

The thing is that the stakes have to be on Riley's end. For the emotions, very literally Riley is their entire world and what happens to her is their primary concern. If Riley herself doesn't have some sort of Race Against the Clock dilemma then there is no rush. There was some drama with the personality islands falling apart but Joy had the core memories that could, theoretically, restore them. If Riley had gone through with the bus ride there was a bigger problem ahead.

Once again, if we didn't know about her inner mental struggles, it's hard to appreciate how a few days of discomfort can lead to crying in class, talking back to your parents and eventually running away from home. No wonder no one understood what she was going through. (Although maybe overhearing her parents talk about their problems behind her back could have helped make things worse- but again, you wonder why she didn't just talk openly with them, instead of holding it in.)

All I'm saying is, it makes you wonder why such a seemingly happy child was so vulnerable to depression. From a narrative sense, I mean- of course in real life, depression isn't a simple matter.

edited 6th Sep '15 6:35:08 AM by Sijo

Because by the time school started Riley had basically forced herself to be a Stepford Smiler.

This is what I was trying to say earlier. I think why Riley reacted as badly as she did is because she never really acknowledged her more negative feelings, and thus didn't know how to deal with them healthily. And, Joy and Sadness were out of the control room when Anger put the idea of running away into Riley's thoughts. When you've been pretty much a Stepford Smiler for as long as Riley, and then literally unable to feel happiness (even if it's forced) without knowing why, I can see why Riley might have been desperate to try to feel happiness, including the what-seemed-to-be-logical-to-her-at-the-time idea of going back to where she was happiest.

As to why she didn't talk to her parents about it, again, by that time Riley was a Stepford Smiler who didn't want to stress out her parents more than they already were.

Personally, this is why I'm glad Riley's situation was the way it was. It showed that depression isn't so simple as having an obvious trigger, and that it is a mental illness that isn't always logical.

Well, I think that perception is part of the point of the film. If we didn't know about Riley's internal emotional struggles, then her reactions would seem extreme. But we DO know about them. Perhaps other people's apparently extreme reactions are the result of inner turmoil. I don't think that eliminates the need for censure of such actions, it just asks for an attempt at understanding.

I went and saw Inside Out again because my town is finally playing it at the Imax. The "Facts and Opinions" joke actually got the loudest laughs from a lot of the adults in the audience.

Which one was that?