The Disney Pixar movie, “Inside Out” encourages viewers that it is okay to feel their feelings. With creative animation, it shows how bottling up emotions like sadness can lead to outbursts and problems in your life and future. In the movie ‘Joy’ tries to hide ‘Sadness’ away, resulting in both characters, or feelings, being lost. This causes Riley to only feel anger, fear and disgust. Riley’s action of pushing sadness away is a cautionary tale for viewers on how not allowing others to know when there is a feeling of sadness can cause one to always feel negative emotions, therefore making it difficult to experience joy.
This “little kids’” movie has made adults and high schoolers like Faryn Cox (10) take a look at themselves and how they express their own feelings.
“The movie ‘Inside Out’ inspired me at a young age to view my own emotions in a more positive light. I also recognized that everyone has their emotional journey and navigates it differently,” Cox said.
“Inside Out’s” exceptional portrayal of personified emotions creates a movie about the importance of mental health and expressing their feelings that is understandable by kids. The movie offers an easier avenue for parents to start conversations with children about their feelings and mental health. According to HCF.com, not acknowledging emotions will make them stronger and can lead to aggression, depression and anxiety.
While some people didn’t fully agree with the basic emotions portrayed in the first movie, they are anticipating the release of new emotions in the highly anticipated sequel “Inside Out 2,” which will follow Riley’s journey through her teenage years.
Ricardo Basurto-Perez (9) didn’t expect a sequel to “Inside Out” and hopes the different emotions will show what it feels like to be a teenager.
“The emotions in the first movie were too bland and the introduction of more complex emotions could make Riley truly portray a teenager’s personality,” Basurto-Perez said.
The addition of the new emotions Envy, Anxiety, Ennui and Embarrassment to Riley’s already existing emotions of Joy, Sadness, Fear and Anger adds layers to her emotional experience. With the introduction of these new advanced emotions and the challenges of high school, Riley struggles to find herself, and her basic emotions are suppressed.
Omner Grinder (11) liked “Inside Out” and how they portrayed Riley’s character.
“I thought the portrayal of emotions was accurate, especially that of a child just entering into teenager hood and I appreciated how the whole ‘Joy going missing’ plot could be interpreted as, by moving she lost what made her happy. I think that the new emotions are very accurate as to what teenagers, especially new ones, feel as they don’t really know who or how to be,” Grinder said.
Emiliano Sainos Mendez (12) is looking forward to the sequel and the new emotions as well.
“I think seeing new emotions in the new movie will bring even more awareness and clarity to how people change as they get older,” Sainos Mendez said.
