The Movie 'Inside Out'

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Inside out movie is one bizarre, imaginative and authentically psychedelic animation as anything produced animation directed and co-written by Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen as a co-director. This 102 minutes story is about a girl named Riley Andersen who was born in Minnesota. The headquarters in her mind automatically installed as she was born. In the headquarters, there are five emotions such as Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Fear and Anger in her mind that created over time. As she grows up, all her experiences become memories which are saved in the crystal balls with different colours. Different colours of crystal balls indicate the different five core of emotions. All the crystal balls of memories will be sent to the long term memories every …show more content…

Moving to the new place can be something that out of the blue which makes it difficult for some teenagers to cope and adapt. The director wants to show how our new lifestyle can affect a teenager’s emotion. Teenager’s mind and feeling are connected during a certain situations such as adapting with the new friends, environment and new hockey club as shown in this movie. I believe it is very interesting to do a research on this movie since it revolves around the nowadays reality issue; coping and adapting to new place can cause depression amongst some teenagers. Teenagers that facing the transition change needs time to adjust and fit in into the changes that has been made. I want to prove that new environment does give a big impact to teenagers especially their emotions as they are still in the phase of growing up. Based on Oxford Dictionary (cite), the definition of emotion is a strong feeling deriving from one’s circumstances, mood or relationships with others. Inside out movie is a great movie that shows how a real teenager named Riley Andersen, who has to fight with her mixed emotions in order to maintain her personality and her relationship with the new lifestyle. People always naturally bring their old lifestyle and culture with them even though moving to new hometown or places. …show more content…

The director of this movie portrays lots of happy and joyful moments of Riley with her family and friends in Minnesota at the beginning of the movie. Unfortunately, her days of playing with trains, Bing Bong and dolls on the floor faded away once she moves to San Francisco causing Riley to lose track of her own definition of happiness. “Aren’t you a little bundle of joy?” – Dad (1min 55 seconds) Once the mind has taken over, it strives to distract us until at one point, we will never notice that we have lost access entirely towards our true joyful selves. It diverts attention with powerful emotions like anger, shame, and jealously. And when all else fails, it calls upon fear to seal the doors of our innermost being shut. Riley tries to push her father away by rejecting all his efforts in trying to console her in accepting the reality. This prove that drastic changes in teenager’s environment may brought a big impact towards the individuals if the matter is not being tackled in a correct manner. This can be proven when Riley doesn’t give any response to her dad’s tease in her bedroom after Riley flagrantly yelling at her parent when they insist to ask about the first day at new school and thus causing her dad to scold her. This incident causes the Goofy Island to collapse as she loses her sense of