Inside Out Psychology

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Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust: A Review of Inside Out Thinking about what goes on inside of your head can be difficult to think about, but in the Pixar movie Inside Out directed by Pete Docter (Up and Monsters Inc.) he does a tremendous job of explaining the inner workings of a child’s mind in one of the most creative ways possible. The movie Inside Out (2015) is an animated movie based on the different emotions in the mind of a young girl named Riley, you have Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust. The characters, which are all lovable, all perform certain tasks for Riley as she grows up in life and changes go on to her environment. The movie starts out with Riley being born and her first emotion appears from a dark room, Joy (voiced
All of the memories that the characters create are different colored orbs that are stored in a quite large library outside the main building. Riley also has personality islands that are just floating islands in her head that explore who she is, such as family and friends, hockey, and Goofball Island. But as Riley moves to San Francisco everything is suddenly turned upside down. Sadness first starts making the core memories, which are the most important memories, turn to blue which symbolize sadness. This is due to Riley moving to a city that is much unlike her home in Minnesota, they show San Francisco as a dark and scary place for Riley, she even has a nightmare about this the first night she is in the new city. Sadness changing the core memory unfortunately leads to Joy and Sadness getting sucked out of headquarters, literally by a suction tube, with all of the core memories and being stuck in the maze that is all of Riley’s memories. After Riley loses all of her core memories she starts to really show that she hates being in a new city and wants to home. Anger, Fear, and Disgust are all still in headquarters trying to do the best job they can without their leader Joy, but end up making things worse. As Joy and Sadness try to find a way back to headquarters they end up in the maze of memories and find a new character, Bing Bong. Bing Bong is Riley’s old imaginary

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