Inside Out
Jul. 16th, 2015 06:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chuckro”What if feelings had feelings?” ~Related internet Meme
Not Pixar’s greatest film, but a solid one. Jethrien was hit much more with the parental tear-gas bomb; I think I was more preoccupied by musing on the nature of memory, personality and depression -- i.e. identifying with Riley more than her parents. (The fact that ARR is still in toddler phase probably has something to do with this; if we re-watch this when he’s six and is doing a lot more maneuvering on his own I’ll probably get hit with it more.)
The idea of some of the emotions being absent / certain memories being unavailable just leading to an overall deadening of emotion and personality is entirely believable and understandable to me. And Riley just has a short-term, situational depressive breakdown. I’m not sure my board has been working properly since somewhere around puberty. (That, or Joy is on extended holiday, Anger and Sadness have a codependent abusive relationship, and Fear changed his name to Anxiety and doesn’t even know what he’s doing anymore. I’ve learned recently that what I’ve accepted as “normal” brain functioning is perhaps…not.)
TVTropes is rife with theories that Riley is genderqueer, because everyone else shown has five emotions that match their gender, and she has three female and two male. I suspect this is reading too deeply into a storytelling/marketing decision to make sure that boys would watch the film; similar to the way Riley’s activities and personality are generally very gender-neutral, not “girly”. Also, when you can get Lewis Black to play an incarnation of anger, you do that.
Overall: Fun movie with a dangerous rabbit-hole of musings in it if you’re the introspective type. If you like Pixar movies, you’ll like this one too.
Not Pixar’s greatest film, but a solid one. Jethrien was hit much more with the parental tear-gas bomb; I think I was more preoccupied by musing on the nature of memory, personality and depression -- i.e. identifying with Riley more than her parents. (The fact that ARR is still in toddler phase probably has something to do with this; if we re-watch this when he’s six and is doing a lot more maneuvering on his own I’ll probably get hit with it more.)
The idea of some of the emotions being absent / certain memories being unavailable just leading to an overall deadening of emotion and personality is entirely believable and understandable to me. And Riley just has a short-term, situational depressive breakdown. I’m not sure my board has been working properly since somewhere around puberty. (That, or Joy is on extended holiday, Anger and Sadness have a codependent abusive relationship, and Fear changed his name to Anxiety and doesn’t even know what he’s doing anymore. I’ve learned recently that what I’ve accepted as “normal” brain functioning is perhaps…not.)
TVTropes is rife with theories that Riley is genderqueer, because everyone else shown has five emotions that match their gender, and she has three female and two male. I suspect this is reading too deeply into a storytelling/marketing decision to make sure that boys would watch the film; similar to the way Riley’s activities and personality are generally very gender-neutral, not “girly”. Also, when you can get Lewis Black to play an incarnation of anger, you do that.
Overall: Fun movie with a dangerous rabbit-hole of musings in it if you’re the introspective type. If you like Pixar movies, you’ll like this one too.
