Blog Entry #1: Inside Out - Understanding Emotions
Inside Out is a movie that tries to convey a story through a fun and creative look inside the minds of people and what they're thinking. It's a movie that follows the journey of Riley and her attempts to understand her own emotions before they get out of hand.
Three things in this movie struck me the most, first of all being Bing Bong's 'death', Sadness' taking control and the control system inside Riley's head becoming more complex at the end of the movie. Well to elaborate, Bing Bong's death alongside all the old memories of Riley's childhood is a powerful symbol of us unconsciously or consciously dropping things from our past as we mature, for better or for worse. Sadness taking control is a powerful message that even our negative emotions are important, mostly because it signals to others what we are feeling and that we need help with whatever is causing us distress. The emotional control panel in Riley's mind becoming bigger and more complex is also a sign of how complex emotions become as we mature, the emotions we feel as mature individuals are far more complex than the simple anger, happiness, fear, disgust, and sadness, and it entails that we not only become more mentally or physically, but also emotionally complex.
Based on the movie, we can certainly tell that people's emotions and thought processes are different and that we have different emotions reacting to different situations and memories, but at a fundamental level, we still have the same psychological and mental functions that enable us to empathize and feel emotion, and we can easily communicate and relate on those feelings of happiness, sadness, etc.
Through this movie, we can understand that other people, especially those who are young and growing like Riley that we are slowly changing and becoming more complex and it's okay to feel confused about it, but as the movies show, we must acknowledge that we cannot do this alone and that we must always look for help whenever these confusing emotions get to us.
Three things in this movie struck me the most, first of all being Bing Bong's 'death', Sadness' taking control and the control system inside Riley's head becoming more complex at the end of the movie. Well to elaborate, Bing Bong's death alongside all the old memories of Riley's childhood is a powerful symbol of us unconsciously or consciously dropping things from our past as we mature, for better or for worse. Sadness taking control is a powerful message that even our negative emotions are important, mostly because it signals to others what we are feeling and that we need help with whatever is causing us distress. The emotional control panel in Riley's mind becoming bigger and more complex is also a sign of how complex emotions become as we mature, the emotions we feel as mature individuals are far more complex than the simple anger, happiness, fear, disgust, and sadness, and it entails that we not only become more mentally or physically, but also emotionally complex.
Based on the movie, we can certainly tell that people's emotions and thought processes are different and that we have different emotions reacting to different situations and memories, but at a fundamental level, we still have the same psychological and mental functions that enable us to empathize and feel emotion, and we can easily communicate and relate on those feelings of happiness, sadness, etc.
Through this movie, we can understand that other people, especially those who are young and growing like Riley that we are slowly changing and becoming more complex and it's okay to feel confused about it, but as the movies show, we must acknowledge that we cannot do this alone and that we must always look for help whenever these confusing emotions get to us.
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