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@BlindWave grown-up men yelling at 11 year old Riley that she's not allowed to be sad....She just lost her very first home and friends and you're yelling at her that she is not allowed to cry, she has to push back sadness. grownups doing this to kids is just ... ugh
my boyfriend and i have a theory that the reason why sadness couldn't stop touching everything was because she is having a breakdown for being too contained for a long time. like when you keep your feelings inside for too much and they start to overflow.
i feel like it was because of instincts... like that childhood scene where riley was running and fear jumped in because there was a wire in the way, it was his instinct to act on the emotion he is incharge of... similarly in this entire situation tiley needed to feel sad that's why sadness was having the urge to touch everything, act on her instinct and get involved in order to help riley.
It's this idea of repression. All of the other emotions get to freely express and influence Riley through her thought process. It's almost like denying her right to feel sadness is basically invalidating said emotion. Like, it shouldn't be acknowledged. Like, if she exists and her being denied of living through existence (I don't know if that makes sense. But, at least that's my thoughts on it as well)
@@wisewillowgames I was going to say the same thing. Toxic positivity can be a real problem that doesn’t get talked about often. I remember cinema therapy had a great take on it
I love that this movie doesn't simplify things by just saying "You need sadness in order to appreciate joy" - it's actually more complex than that. Instead, the movie says, "Sadness is important on its own, because it allows us to process trauma and loss, gives us a way to signal to others that we need help, AND gives us the capacity to feel bad for other people and express empathy."
Yeah exactly, I especially love the part of how it's useful for communicating. Letting yourself feel sad when you're all alone isn't enough, you also need to be able to let others know that you're sad, that kind of communication is super important for having real relationships with people.
@@MisterAnonymous1000it’s not though, Riley doesn’t need sadness to appreciate joy, joy ultimately let’s sadness run the place because she realises that Riley needs sadness to process what she is going through and to communicate her sadness with others, like what happened with Bing Bong.
Exactly! the islands shutting down were because she refused to let her self be sad or grieve and that hits so hard. It’s such a great movie for kids and adults
@@hotshot104 i suck at understanding movies so is she depressed cause she missed her old home ? Like doesn’t it come way later is it so easy to get depression ?
@@jiji7250 I wouldn't say that it's either easy or difficult to get depression, that's like saying that it's either easy or difficult to get cancer. Both are fairly common, a lot of people get them, but nobody is guaranteed to get them, there's nothing you can do to completely negate the chance of getting them, and there's no real cure to either. But similar to how a person can get cancer from a combination of bad genetics and being exposed to dangerous materials, Riley gets depression through a combination of going through a major change in her life and the fact that nothing really goes well for her after this change. Add the fact that she is quite literally unable to feel happy *or* sad, it's not a very good time for her.
I can understand the scene where Bing Bong disappears being many peoples saddest moment in the movie. But the scene that really makes me cry is when Riley comes home and breaks down in tears about being homesick
For me too. Specifically that moment where she stops sobbing and takes a deep breath while hugging her parents. Such an intimate, powerful, relatable and emotional moment
Both scenes make me cry, though the reason the bing bong scene makes me cry is less to do with him specifically and more just...me grieving some of my own imaginary friends.
As someone with a history of depression, this movie is hands down the best representation of what it feels like. Being sad is at least an emotion that you can understand and react to, depression is just....nothing. It takes over every other aspect of your personality until you're just kind of a hollow shell shuffling through life. Great job Pixar.
I'd just posted that if Pixar didn't cut away to the "emotions" this could easily have been a PG-13 or R examination of Riley's decent into a mental crisis... The various clips and discussions of this movie from just what Riley sees/does in the Outside World can be very chilling.
This. Exactly this. This is why Pink Floyd became something of a lifeline to 11 year old me suffering depression, having this one thing that I could relate and react to, like someone had encapsulated and understood what was going on for me.
That is certainly ONE of the manifestations of Depression - where apathy takes over and empties out your every feeling. But there are other forms of it where you can still feel other emotions, but feelings of helplessness may still be crushing. You may still have access to anger which can make you feel less like you are spiraling out of control or sadness that overwhelms you and makes life feel like it is nothing but pain but not joy, so be stuck in a cycle of lashing out/breaking down crying. You may be able to feel joy but not be able to maintain it when you are alone as your head fills with noise of how worthless you are, how much people hate you, how you should just die.
It definitely took me a bit to realize what Sadness was trying to do at the start when she started touching memories and turned them sad. It's the child natural instincts trying to process emotions and memories and recalling the good times, which naturally would turn into melancholy/sadness of wanting to go back to that time.
It basically represented nostalgia. I liked how they did that & how it took Riley not wanting to let go of the possibility of making more memories with her family.
I think that the reason her moms main emotion is sadness is not bc she’s sad but bc her sadness has evolved into a more complex emotion: empathy. We see how Riley’s sadness helps bing bong feel better by being empathetic to him.
It made me wonder about what the results are when someone isn't allowed to feel the other emotions. Like if you're never allowed to get angry, does that then lead to apathy, along with with passive aggression, if you're not allowed to feel disgust does that lead to feel you have the right to passivity too and that you're not allowed to have opinions, likes and dislikes. I'm trying figure out what it would be like if you weren't in allowed to feel fear, or joy?
@@pkb8914 It could also just be that he's more emotionally repressed, since he's a man. Society tells men not to express their emotions, and anger is an easier emotion to access, plus an emotion that society judges men less for expressing. There's a reason why so many men react with anger so much.
I really like how the minds of everyone looks different, Riley's was sort of a spaceship, the dad's was more a control center and the moms looked like a theater or a stage
This movie actually helped my own younger cousins understand more what I was going through when my own depression was at it's worse. There were times where I couldn't get off the couch and one of my youngest cousins who was around 5 or 6 at the time came over to m and whispered "Are you all greyed up?" and when I nodded she got me all her stuffed animals, favorite snacks, and had my aunt put on a movie and she got up on the couch and cuddled with me all afternoon. Later that day when she saw me smiling said "Good, being yellow and blue is better than grey" and I have thought about that ever since.
Cinema Therapy said it best, there is a type of love that is only experienced through sadness & a type of joy that is only experienced through grief. Rewatching this movie now hits different. A really close friend of mine passed 2 years ago of cancer & every happy memory I have of her is coloured in blue. But that's what makes them beautiful.
I'm a psychology teacher, and I use this movie in class every year as we learn about how memories and emotions work! It's actually based (mostly) upon actual theory (although simplified a lot). Emotional maturation and learning how to cope with emotions is something a lot of my kids struggle with. Loved your reaction as always :D
Yeah, I believe in early productions they had over twenty different emotions but because of how overwhelming it'd be character wise, they just simplified it to Joy, Anger, Sadness, Fear, and Disgust. Plus most emotions could be SOMEWHAT simplified to the core five!
@@ANameToGoBy The emotion characters are based on Paul Ekman's theory on fundamental emotions, in which he categorized 6: Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, Disgust and surprise (which was omitted from the movie). All other emotions are called complex or composite emotions :)
@Furries are gay Some do, yeah. Emotional maturity has nothing to do with age, but with experience (and also your genetics). Just look at the dad in the movie: his "main emotion" is anger, probably as a result of his upbringing. A lot of boys and men are taught this idea that you shouldn't show your emotions, and supress them, unless it's anger because that's masculine.
I saw someone point out that riley's parents' emotions are good at working as a team. While Riley's emotions conflict a lot and don't work together as well. Adults' emotions are (usually) more stable, kids' emotions are a little more chaotic. Its a subtle but great metaphor for emotional stability.
"Does a memory ever fade forever?" I had a very happy surprise from my daughter; as I watched her walking across bricks, but changing her feet direction so she didn't step on the cracks. It brought back a memory of me at a restaurant in town doing the same thing she was doing, my mom told me to slow down so I don't .... Right as she was saying fall I tripped and smacked my head real hard against a table. I started crying, and my grandpa said, "Check to see if his brains are falling out!" My grandmother shot him a look, and said "Don't tell him that" because that made me cry harder. Both of them past away just a few months apart when I was three. I asked family members if my memory checks out. Everything checks out, I was even told that grandpa was a kidder, and would lightly tease the grandchildren. I love that I got this memory back, and while it made three year old me cry, 40 year old me is chuckling right along with my grandpa.
Something I noticed was that every emotion was designed with just their exclusive color but Joy's hair is blue. So I took that as you need a little sadness to really appreciate and understand joy.
As someone who grew up with severe depression as a child, I really appreciate the movie not demonizing sadness. I feel like especially when you're younger, you're told that being sad isn’t valid emotion because you're ‘ too young to have anything to be sad about’. that kind of stuff can make you bottle up a lot of emotions which can be really unhealthy. When you're a kid and you get depression, it can feel really confusing because you don't know why you're having such big emotions. With Riley, she ended up being numb to all of her emotions which is kind of how I was before I finally went to therapy
18:18 Im glad Aaron got why sadnes was important right away. It’s not just about speciations joy, empathy, sympathy are important. Also sadness it’s a good way to share pain and let it out not just bottle it up. It was obvious that Riley was deeply hurting due to all the changes. She clearly wants to cry and express that she doesn’t feel okay with all those changes. Sadness felt the impulse to do something. So she started touching things. If Riley had cried from the beginning in front of her parents they could have sorted things out sooner.
I love that core memories can "change color" years after they originally happened based on whatever is currently happening in your life. Or from finding out new information that you didn't know at the time. Memories of a loved one are tinged blue when that loved one dies because, joyful as the memories may be, they're tainted by the fact that the person is now gone. However, despite the fact that they're tinged blue, the yellow in them is all the brighter because hindsight makes you recognize how wonderful that time really was.
The happy/sad combo memories really make sense with loss. All of the happy memories get a touch of sadness when you remember. The definition of bittersweet.
Words can't express how good this film is. Imagine there being a big-budget kid's film whose central message is that growing up is an inherently melancholic experience and that in order to be mentally healthy you need to learn to process all of your emotions.
If you guys get a chance, check out the short that comes after this, Riley's First Date, which has the dad's perspective when a BOY comes to the house to see Riley.
I just love how sadness starts touching everything and wants to start driving. Riley needs to express unhappiness about the move, she's not doing well and the more joy and the rest keep her from making Riley feel sad or upset, the more she loses control and makes more things sad. Pushing down an emotion doesn't make it go away
I absolutely love how it depicts depression, but also how joy could represent people not understanding depressed people like sadness and trying to diminish it or make it go away when it sometimes just can't.
The idea that 3/4s of the crew hasn't seen this blows my mind, but I absolutely love watching people see this for the first time and just sobbing from how prominent the messaging is so I'm not complaining (got a feeling this'll happen to most if not all of them by the end and with how long this vid is I'm super excited for the discussion afterwards). My favorite little detail that I don't see anyone talking about is how some of the emotions have one main color, but Joy has blue hair and eyes to show her connection to sadness as a feeling and Disgust has a purple ascot cause that feeling comes from fear. I've seen this movie so many times, and I only realized the Disgust one recently so props to the Pixar character designers for coming up with that
The fact that her happy memories become sad..Not cause Sadness touched the ball..cause that's what happens...Happy memories become sad cause you can never relive that memory
That has to be the happiest newborn I’ve ever seen. My sister’s fourth child came out raging against the world and even almost a year later, he’s still howling with fury at an unfair world.
It's interesting to see how each emotion has what's called a crippling overspecialization : each is an expert for the emotion they embody (obviously) but they utterly suck at making Riley feel anything else. During the dinner argument, Disgust only manages to trigger a sarcastic answer when pretending to be Joy ; Fear triggers insecurity and anxiety ; and Anger triggers agressivity and irritation.
I really like the idea of sadness touching a memory and changing its color. I think it's just cool to show the idea of how you can feel something in the moment of a memory, and then later on in your life, you may have a different perspective, and now when you think of that memory, it brings out a different emotion. Like how in the movie there is a happy memory that gets turned sad because Riley misses those times. Or maybe someone has a good memory with a previous lover, and now when they look back on it, it might make them angry, upset, or disgusted instead. Or maybe somebody had a moment where they were grossed out or upset by something, but their friend thought their reaction was funny, so maybe now they find that moment funny. I think it's just a really cool concept that they added in the movie
While Ratatouille is my favourite Pixar film, I'd argue this is their best one. A masterpiece visualising such a complex topic, yet simple story. Hits me every time. 4:38 Fascinating how Eric starts us off with "Oh I don't want sadness to be more prominent" and hitting exactly what this film is about :D
@@EyeZayUhArt I didn't say all the other ones are bad. I sadly never got to connect with Wall-e like many others do. Finding Nemo is the third in my top 3
How about that, I feel the exact same way. Ratatouille is my favorite personally (though, I also think it's one of their best movies as well, my own bias aside), but Inside Out is my second favorite and I think it's their best. My third favorite is Coco, and after that it gets more muddled and uncertain cause there are SO many amazing ones and it's more a case of personal taste, but that's definitely my top 3.
Same. When I saw this in theaters I cried then and when Joy cried in the pile of forgotten memories. In fact, I just got out of seeing Inside Out 2, and I cried during that movie too
"I'm glad she got to 11, and most of her memories were joyful" - Rick Weird to think that for most of us, it wasn't like that. But hey, a movie is a movie for a reason
Riley's brain is still very young and developing. These are the very basic aspects of emotion. In a technically more mature and wiser brain, Joy would develop into Appreciation, Sadness into Empathy, Disgust into Judgement, Anger into Discipline, and Fear into Insight and they all work together for the betterment of the human. But also emotions can work together like Joy and Sadness to express a feeling of comfort or love. Disgust and Anger can work together to express disappointment or loathing. Also Joy and Anger can work together to express revenge or justice, in terms of passion. Real human brains are of course not perfect and carry a whole lot more Core Memories and Islands of Personality that change color and break all the time. The idea of an emotion pressing a button but then it doesn't correlate to the same emotion would result in a mixed brain signal. For example: If Riley had Synesthesia, it may look like when Fear and Joy work together in an atypical way. Fear would be frantically asking for more information about broccoli and Joy decides to combine colors and taste in order to make Fear happy. Fear in his panic accepts the color and adds it to the knowledge bank, now the color purple is connected to broccoli. Fear and Joy are then both satisfied with the solution they found and that brain signal of taste and sound are interconnected. Riley would then be positively sure that she hates the color purple because seeing purple to her would in no doubt taste like broccoli and broccoli is gross. This movie is obviously very simplified, however, it is a great starting point for better appreciating your own and other's mental health.
The Bing Bing rocket scene had me crying in the theater when this movie came out. I had a stuffed animal that I took everywhere and somewhere along the way I lost it and forgot. That scene and, "Take her to the moon for me," acted like closure for the pure joy/imagination I had as a child but forgot all about.
i saw this movie with a friend who had lost her father recently and hadn’t processed it. her family weren’t talking openly with their emotions etc and she had closed off from us and it could t have come at a more perfect time
I’m glad you guys can now say you know about Bing Bong and what people feel when they say a show ‘Bing Bonged’ them. No matter how many times I see this movie, it always makes me cry. It’s just so beautifully done.
As someone with depression that had a traumatic experience bc of moving as a child- this movie is so important and hits so hard. I'm so glad kids get to watch it and even if they don't understand it all- they're going to be able to talk about it and understand it more as they grow up.
Fun fact: The writer/director's daughter (who inspired Riley/the whole movie) was the voice of Ellie in the first ten minutes of Up. Which actually makes a lot of sense with what we know about Riley before her pre-teen years.
This is a nice surprise. Saddest part is Bing Bong. Every kid had a perfect friend but eventually they just get forgotten with life's junk. We're always chasing that feeling as adults
To me the saddest part was definitely the moment where Sadness affects all the core memories and Riley's talk with her parents. That's so emotional to me.
I literally went to Toys R Us and bought a Bing Bong toy back when this film came out and I've kept it on my shelf for years now just because that moment made me so sad, I never want him to be forgotten
@@joevictor53 when I first watched it I had a quick feeling i had forgotten and someone I recognized but no face idk hard to describe just a feeling of longing and sadness mixed with a thank you
I love this movie so much. It really shows how important are all the emotions for us and even though “sadness, anger or fear” are the emotions people use to avoid. There’s nothing wrong on see some situations on the bright side, but also it is healthy and natural to let you feel other emotions and not just ignore them and force yourself to be happy. In this case Joy is avoiding Riley to start grieving (yes, moving out is a process of grief) about moving to another city, away of the place she called home her whole life and all her friends. As a child’s therapist this movie is perfect to teach children about the importance of the emotions and how to recognize them but not let them to take over of all your life. I’m so happy you reacted to it!!!
This is been my comfort movie for eight years now, and one of the things I love about this movie is that the more I watch it the deeper it gets, which I think is pretty cool. My connection to this movie that when I was 14 I had moved from the only home I’ve ever loved to some shoddy townhouse that I didn’t want to be at in a town I grew to dislike. When Inside Out came out, I was only 16, so it only been two years since we moved and when I watched it, it just brought up so many emotions that I didn’t realize were still buried so deep. I was crying so hard in the movie theater that day, and I knew I was in for it at the beginning when the emotions were screaming as the family was getting all of their stuff packed up. That really sucked so yeah so I can’t watch the part before Riley cries in front of her parents without sobbing like a baby. It gets me every time. I’ve lived in my new town for 10 years now and this place still doesn’t feel like home.
@@auden4531 Right? Kids used to laugh at me all the time for crying. I blame them for that because their parents probably laughed at them for crying, too. Still, no reason to take it out on me. How they learned that crying is a good thing every once in a while.
Aaron had such a unique experience to this move with being a father, i couldn't help but only watch him because he was having such a heart warming experience to this. it made my heart melt, and when he was crying i was right there with him. THIS is why I love blind wave.
Same. This was right around the time Disney and Pixar were doing more and more twist villains so I thought the same. So glad he wasn't but his story hurt me more than a villain ever could
“You know that pain and guilt can’t be taken away with the wave of a magic wand! They’re the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don’t want my pain taken away, I need my pain!” - Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
I love the idea of yes looking back at happy childhood memories can feel sad. Because yeah. We all want to go back to that but can. But it doesn't change that it was a good day/events.
A sequel following someone living with autism would be interesting. Coupling alexithymia* with sensory problems would present a mind that functions very differently to Riley's, and would be a good start in showing how much variation there is in the way people's minds work. * Alexithymia is essentially having emotions but not being able to recognise them within yourself, and having reduced/no change in behavior in response to them. It is the 'emptiness' many describe when they have depression, as they lose sight of their emotions so they seem to be missing. Depending why you have it though, alexithymia can be a long-term/permanent feature that is simply the norm. I prefer to describe it as 'blank' since that implies there's nothing much there, but not that anything is missing. In other words, alexithymia isn't itself a problem, it's just different.
While that's a very interesting idea, I believe it's been confirmed that the sequel will still focus on Riley, but she'll be 16 at that point. Then again, this kind premise could be explored in so many different ways that I would still love to see your idea put into practice.
@@theinspiredgamer1949 Having seen glimpses into other character's heads in the first film, an approach could involve a friend who is the focus of many of Riley's social interactions, and with whom we see a back and forth between the different minds like we saw with Riley's parents around the dinner table. They wouldn't get as much attention as Riley of course, but they could still be shown enough to decently represent an autistic/alexithymic mind.
Forgive me for asking but is Rick autistic? For the record I'm autistic as well so I'm not judging I would just like to know the full story instead of assuming anything
@@auden4531 I haven't seen Rick state he is, so like you I am choosing not to assume anything. I myself exhibit enough autistic traits that people around me (including the doctor I spoke to about it) think it is plausible I am autistic, but luckily it has never caused me enough trouble to need a diagnosis. So I don't ever call myself autistic, but I have spent lots of time looking into it and neurodivergence more widely, and Rick might be in the a similar position for all I know.
@@AngryShuckie That's fair and thank you for explaining that to me. Also I TOTALLY agree with your first comment about a movie like this but with an autistic main character
I feel like Amy Poehler is perfect as Joy, because she is pretty much just reprising her role as Leslie in Parks and Rec. In Parks she is super enthusiastic and wants to help everyone but she is also a complete steamroller who tries to make decisions for everyone else. Honestly, I feel like you could probably get the whole Parks cast to rehash their roles for this movie 😂 Leslie as Joy, April as Disgust, Ron as Anger and Tom as Fear. I’m not sure who could play sadness though.
I love how the movie portrays the fact that Riley avoids his problems and all the changes in his life. She wanted to continue being the sweet and cheerful Riley before her parents, so sadness was bottled up and she felt that she had to do something about it. She was fighting internally edited: I clarify for all those who stayed with the evil version of sadness
I love the way this move lays the groundwork for expressing a wide variety of emotional experiences: being able to express that fear is driving you, or that you don't have access to some of your emotions (either temporarily in response to trauma, or as a more long-standing thing), or that you express everything through a certain lens (like the bus driver), or that you feel like your emotions are at war with each other...it's very useful as a framework for making sense of some very esoteric concepts.
I love Inside Out! I always laugh so hard when I hear the TRIPLE DENT GUM jingle, and the FOOT scene is just pure comedy gold. Plus the music in this movie is SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!
I was just thinking about this movie! My therapist was telling me about "touchstone" memories, which are the first experience a person has that creates a dysfunctional thinking pattern (such as "I am not good enough" or "I am unsafe in this specific situation"). They usually happen during childhood and the brain gets stuck until that memory is fully processed. I thought "core" memories in this movie were very similar! I love how the creators tried to make this as psychologically accurate as possible.
I know some processes in neurodivergent brains are different, but at least for autism and adhd the idea of the core emotions stands. Certainly what is different is how memories/experiences get processed, for example routines don't get reinforced as well through repetitions. Negative input also has more staying power, leading to things like rejection sensitivity. The way the emotions are expressed can also be different, like stimming for happiness.
Inside Out 2 is currently scheduled for a June 2024 release and should cover Riley going through puberty and experiencing new emotions. The only actors that is so far confirmed (to my knowledge) is Amy Poehler as Joy, Phyllis Smith as Sadness, Lewis Black as Anger and Diane Lane as Riley's mom.
Her emotions as a kid to me seems like primary colors, they can be mixed with other colors and create something else. Sarcasm was produced in an attempt for Disgust pretending to be joy. For the parents, their emotions have evolved and I think it's a good representation that we have that dominant emotion in all of us and even if it's not sadness, it not that all negative. For the mother, sadness being in charge doesn't mean she's always sad. It's more on sadness already evolved to become empathy just like how its shown during that argument. She was the one who was trying to be more understanding or acknowledging of Riley's feeling. The father on the other hand with Anger being in charge, well that emotion actually evolved to Authority. He's not always mad but since Anger is usually considered as a strong feeling, and of conviction and with how it was portrayed in the film, Authority was in charge to show how to discipline Riley. Anyway, it's my first time watching your reactions. Looking forward to more :)
This is a masterpiece of showing emotion. There are just times when i feel like some emotions are gone and the other ones are trying to fill in and it just makes things worse
This movie, and it's messages, were so well crafted. There are so many layers and deep messages. My favorite one is with Bing Bong. As a kid, we create an imaginary friend so we will have an ideal companion. Someone who will like everything we like, support us unconditionally, and always be there for us. At the end, in the memory dump, Bing Bong realized that he was, literally, holding Riley back by insisting on being real to her. So he supported her by letting go, allowing her to remember how to be happy. Personally, I don't think that means Riley will never remember him, as there will still be memories of him, for awhile anyways. But I think that he will no longer feel real to her. She will remember her him as a figment of her imagination. A pleasant set of memories, and nothing more. And for me, that feels even sadder than forgetting him. Another subtle one was when Disgust gets Anger to burn open the window. I interpreted that as Riley, subconsciously, being disgusted at how useless her anger was, and used that disgust to channel her anger into making a, literal, breakthrough to allow her to let joy and sadness back into her life.
Fun Fact: There are actually seven base emotions (according to the creators of the movie) but they reduced it to five to make story-telling easier. The two others that they kind of blended into the other characters were surprise and contempt.
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When Rick watches Brooklyn 99, Joy is pressing that button like nuts
Man I’m so happy you reacted to this, Rick’s conversation gave me an interesting idea of a sequel about the mind of someone on the autistic spectrum, I don’t know that would be interesting. I like how the movie shows how brains become more complex over time. Also, while I’m guessing you’ve already seen it, you should react to Mitchell’s vs the Machines if you haven’t yet.
I always thought the emotions were like a family themselves (Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, Anger) They can’t live with each other, can’t live without each other either
I remember seeing this movie in theatres but I was way too young and lacking life experience that I didn't understand it on a deeper level. I can't help myself from tearing up from watching it now as an adult since it's much more relatable and I really appreciate the complex topics portrayed in it having experienced severe depression myself, everything was handled very well. By far my favorite Pixar movie, such a masterpiece.
complex emotions are definitely a thing. Even if my therapist hadn't had a long talk with me about it, that's one thing I already knew. I think of specific events in my life and it's easy to get overwhelmed by several different emotions at once. Learning how to regulate that is the part of the key to growing up.
I've never seen another film that so brilliantly captures the inner workings of human nature in a funny, relatable way without being simplistic or sentimental.
I remember watching this movie for the first time in theatres with my mom. I was crying so hard I had to take a few minutes to calm down before leaving the theatre. It hit way too close to home.
I watched it when I was way younger when it came out, and I definitely felt the turnaround in terms of what I feel about sadness. it's a nice trick the story plays, it's like you're seeing her through joy's perspective.
I remember this movie being a core moment in our psychology class and I've made entire classes based on this movie alone. eckmans theory is being represented so thorough here and it involves a great deal of theory and psychological studies, even though there's a short film who did this earlier.
Sadness touching all the memories represents how our feelings about memories change - happy memories getting tinged with sadness is nostalgia. The meta with Bing Bong is that most people say they never had an imaginary friend - but maybe they did and they just forgot about them.
Sadness leading the mom: she has dealt with her traumatic/sad experiences and accepted them so now the team is led by it. Anger leading the dad: yeah well 😅😆
love how this movie show's that you cannot have happiness without sadness. You need to learn to balance the 2 or 1 will overtake and ruin your mindset on life. this is one of the few perfect films. where everytime I watch it I learn more about myself, and others. It's smart, witty, very very very sad, but it balances it out perfectly with some of the best humor and laughter. 10/10
love how this movie shines a light on the importance sadness plays in our life (in healthy relationships, in mourning, in releasing repression, even in recognizing you're making a mistake), as well as the negative effects of toxic positivity (Joy's perspective/actions for the first half of the movie), and how it can contribute to depression, which was portrayed _very_ accurately and realistically as primarily feeling nothing at all, just a big emptiness, with the occasional sparks of fear/anxiety, anger/irritation, and disgust. sadness, and of course joy, are actually often absent feelings for those with depression (or when they're felt it's typically shallow and fleeting). also what rick said about emotions being felt and expressed differently as a neurodivergent person, really relate to that! i'm autistic with adhd (inattentive type), and it's true. at least for me, my emotional responses are not as immediate and definitely not as noticeable as a neurotypical's, but not only that, they also often aren't the "appropriate" emotional responses for the situation, and i have to figure out what a nt person's response should be so i can mimic it. so it would be really cool to see this movie from a nd person's perspective, but i don't think we'll be seeing that anytime soon. there is a sequel in the works i've heard, but who knows what the plan is with that lol. looking forward to it either way though. anyway, enjoyed the reaction and discussion!
As a neurodivergent person (inattentive ADHD) I know exactly what Rick and you mean by delayed emotional reaction, and inappropriate responses. Yes, it would be fascinating to see this movie in a neurodivergent way!
I haven't rewatched Inside Out since it first came out. Having been through a bit more of my life, I realize how much I underappreciated how this movie was executed. Awesome stuff.
I watched it in 2015 as soon as it came out and it had such a big impact on me! Remembered it for years to come. I am so amazed by the imagination, creativity and storytelling of the production team of this movie. While watching I didn't paid enough attention that all the memories contained only one emotion and when at the end the core memory was both sad and happy at the same time, I felt that in my soul and even gasped very loudly. It made such a perfect sense! Every memory we have always consists of more than one emotion. I cried so much when we lost Bon Bon and for a little while I thought why we should have lost it? Then I realised that loosing our imaginary friends is also a part of us growing up. It should remain a distant memory, but it shouldn't have a strong impact on us anymore. Despised sadness so much, thought why she was so stupid! Knowing that it is just a cartoon, just a plot, but that taught us that without sadness you can not possibly realise and remember happiness as well as give yourself time to reboot and let some painful thing go. 10/10 movie. Once again I amazed by Pixar
I am seeing the new "INDSIDE OUT 2" tonight and I chose you guys because yalls was the longest and most in depth watching then any of the other videos!!! Plus, I wanted an all-male perspective on the movie. I can tell the guy wearing the "Nope" shirt was really into it and the guy with the red shirt finally broke when Bing-Bong sacrificed his life to save Riley. I know yall are older and mature men, but what this movie taught me was that it was about growing up and losing your childhood. Memory dump. Your imaginary friend. Everything that Riley grew up with and misses from home make her have a mental breakdown to the point she wants to run away, and that's where the islands start to collapse. I finally broke at the end when it showed Sadness replaying alll the memories of what Riley missed as a child and that's something everyone misses. That's the point of this movie is about remembering how happy you were as a child and then you grow up!!! People move on. Just think of how many people youve lost in 9-years and how sad it was losing them. That's why I think the first one was an absolute brilliant and genius movie. I hope yall do one for the second one when it comes out. Cant wait!!!!💛❤💚💜💙
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Really hard to watch 4 grown men yelling at a little girl that she's not allowed to be sad and that she has to repress it and pretend she's fine :(
@BlindWave grown-up men yelling at 11 year old Riley that she's not allowed to be sad....She just lost her very first home and friends and you're yelling at her that
she is not
allowed to cry, she has to push back sadness. grownups doing this to kids is just ... ugh
my boyfriend and i have a theory that the reason why sadness couldn't stop touching everything was because she is having a breakdown for being too contained for a long time. like when you keep your feelings inside for too much and they start to overflow.
i feel like it was because of instincts... like that childhood scene where riley was running and fear jumped in because there was a wire in the way, it was his instinct to act on the emotion he is incharge of... similarly in this entire situation tiley needed to feel sad that's why sadness was having the urge to touch everything, act on her instinct and get involved in order to help riley.
It's this idea of repression. All of the other emotions get to freely express and influence Riley through her thought process. It's almost like denying her right to feel sadness is basically invalidating said emotion. Like, it shouldn't be acknowledged.
Like, if she exists and her being denied of living through existence (I don't know if that makes sense. But, at least that's my thoughts on it as well)
@@lilbrownbear toxic positivity is a thing and you gotta acknowledge sadness.
@@wisewillowgames I was going to say the same thing. Toxic positivity can be a real problem that doesn’t get talked about often. I remember cinema therapy had a great take on it
probably more a compulsion to touch them since all those memories are tinged with sadness after moving. Bittersweet
I love that this movie doesn't simplify things by just saying "You need sadness in order to appreciate joy" - it's actually more complex than that. Instead, the movie says, "Sadness is important on its own, because it allows us to process trauma and loss, gives us a way to signal to others that we need help, AND gives us the capacity to feel bad for other people and express empathy."
Yes, this! Exactly this!
Yeah exactly, I especially love the part of how it's useful for communicating. Letting yourself feel sad when you're all alone isn't enough, you also need to be able to let others know that you're sad, that kind of communication is super important for having real relationships with people.
Honestly, I think it was the whole point of the movie. And I think a lot of people needed to hear that message.
I apologize, but that's exactly what this whole movie boils down too.
That doesn't mean that the message is false, however.
@@MisterAnonymous1000it’s not though, Riley doesn’t need sadness to appreciate joy, joy ultimately let’s sadness run the place because she realises that Riley needs sadness to process what she is going through and to communicate her sadness with others, like what happened with Bing Bong.
One thing I love about this movie is that it differentiates between Sadness and Depression, and it shows it perfectly.
I love that they show sadness as the _antidote_ to depression, that’s so real.
Exactly! the islands shutting down were because she refused to let her self be sad or grieve and that hits so hard. It’s such a great movie for kids and adults
You're so right...they nailed the description of literally feeling nothing
@@hotshot104 i suck at understanding movies so is she depressed cause she missed her old home ? Like doesn’t it come way later is it so easy to get depression ?
@@jiji7250
I wouldn't say that it's either easy or difficult to get depression, that's like saying that it's either easy or difficult to get cancer. Both are fairly common, a lot of people get them, but nobody is guaranteed to get them, there's nothing you can do to completely negate the chance of getting them, and there's no real cure to either. But similar to how a person can get cancer from a combination of bad genetics and being exposed to dangerous materials, Riley gets depression through a combination of going through a major change in her life and the fact that nothing really goes well for her after this change. Add the fact that she is quite literally unable to feel happy *or* sad, it's not a very good time for her.
I can understand the scene where Bing Bong disappears being many peoples saddest moment in the movie. But the scene that really makes me cry is when Riley comes home and breaks down in tears about being homesick
For me too. Specifically that moment where she stops sobbing and takes a deep breath while hugging her parents.
Such an intimate, powerful, relatable and emotional moment
Yes. That was the scene that made me actually tear up. Its such a beautiful scene.
Yeah, me, too. I just didn't like Bing Bong that much. xD Sorry, everyone.
Both scenes make me cry, though the reason the bing bong scene makes me cry is less to do with him specifically and more just...me grieving some of my own imaginary friends.
It's great because it shows that sadness is important to show.
As someone with a history of depression, this movie is hands down the best representation of what it feels like. Being sad is at least an emotion that you can understand and react to, depression is just....nothing. It takes over every other aspect of your personality until you're just kind of a hollow shell shuffling through life. Great job Pixar.
I'd just posted that if Pixar didn't cut away to the "emotions" this could easily have been a PG-13 or R examination of Riley's decent into a mental crisis... The various clips and discussions of this movie from just what Riley sees/does in the Outside World can be very chilling.
This. Exactly this. This is why Pink Floyd became something of a lifeline to 11 year old me suffering depression, having this one thing that I could relate and react to, like someone had encapsulated and understood what was going on for me.
That recent movie Everything Everywhere All At Once also did a fantastic job of representing depression, this time using the concept of the multiverse
That is certainly ONE of the manifestations of Depression - where apathy takes over and empties out your every feeling.
But there are other forms of it where you can still feel other emotions, but feelings of helplessness may still be crushing.
You may still have access to anger which can make you feel less like you are spiraling out of control or sadness that overwhelms you and makes life feel like it is nothing but pain but not joy, so be stuck in a cycle of lashing out/breaking down crying.
You may be able to feel joy but not be able to maintain it when you are alone as your head fills with noise of how worthless you are, how much people hate you, how you should just die.
How I interpreted depression was Joy falling into the void and not coming back up.
It definitely took me a bit to realize what Sadness was trying to do at the start when she started touching memories and turned them sad.
It's the child natural instincts trying to process emotions and memories and recalling the good times, which naturally would turn into melancholy/sadness of wanting to go back to that time.
It basically represented nostalgia. I liked how they did that & how it took Riley not wanting to let go of the possibility of making more memories with her family.
I think that the reason her moms main emotion is sadness is not bc she’s sad but bc her sadness has evolved into a more complex emotion: empathy.
We see how Riley’s sadness helps bing bong feel better by being empathetic to him.
I think I heard somewhere that the dad’s anger was in charge because it had taken the form of determination.
Then disgust turns into honesty
Fear into precaution and joy into bliss?
@@gimmekromer1151 Possibly so
It made me wonder about what the results are when someone isn't allowed to feel the other emotions. Like if you're never allowed to get angry, does that then lead to apathy, along with with passive aggression, if you're not allowed to feel disgust does that lead to feel you have the right to passivity too and that you're not allowed to have opinions, likes and dislikes.
I'm trying figure out what it would be like if you weren't in allowed to feel fear, or joy?
@@pkb8914 It could also just be that he's more emotionally repressed, since he's a man. Society tells men not to express their emotions, and anger is an easier emotion to access, plus an emotion that society judges men less for expressing. There's a reason why so many men react with anger so much.
I really like how the minds of everyone looks different, Riley's was sort of a spaceship, the dad's was more a control center and the moms looked like a theater or a stage
and when she was a baby it was just an empty void, really well done
Oh wow I hadn’t even noticed that! That’s what I love about it, you pick up on something different each time you watch
Also how Riley's Joy was the leader while her Dad's Anger and Mom's Sadness were in charge lol
I'd never noticed that before, but wow you're right! I really love that
@@BobPantsSpongeSquare97 Not to mention Riley's emotions are a mix of male and female, whereas her Mom's were all women and Dad's were all men.
This movie actually helped my own younger cousins understand more what I was going through when my own depression was at it's worse. There were times where I couldn't get off the couch and one of my youngest cousins who was around 5 or 6 at the time came over to m and whispered "Are you all greyed up?" and when I nodded she got me all her stuffed animals, favorite snacks, and had my aunt put on a movie and she got up on the couch and cuddled with me all afternoon. Later that day when she saw me smiling said "Good, being yellow and blue is better than grey" and I have thought about that ever since.
That's so sweet it literally made me tear up😭
That is by far the cutest thing I’ve heard all month.
I didn’t expect to tear up at this comment. 😢
Sooo So’o sweet
Aww that is the sweetest thing ever. Kids r amazing
Cinema Therapy said it best, there is a type of love that is only experienced through sadness & a type of joy that is only experienced through grief. Rewatching this movie now hits different. A really close friend of mine passed 2 years ago of cancer & every happy memory I have of her is coloured in blue. But that's what makes them beautiful.
I absolutely ADORE Cinema Therapy
I'm a psychology teacher, and I use this movie in class every year as we learn about how memories and emotions work! It's actually based (mostly) upon actual theory (although simplified a lot). Emotional maturation and learning how to cope with emotions is something a lot of my kids struggle with. Loved your reaction as always :D
Yeah, I believe in early productions they had over twenty different emotions but because of how overwhelming it'd be character wise, they just simplified it to Joy, Anger, Sadness, Fear, and Disgust. Plus most emotions could be SOMEWHAT simplified to the core five!
@@ANameToGoBy The emotion characters are based on Paul Ekman's theory on fundamental emotions, in which he categorized 6: Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, Disgust and surprise (which was omitted from the movie). All other emotions are called complex or composite emotions :)
@Furries are gay Some do, yeah. Emotional maturity has nothing to do with age, but with experience (and also your genetics). Just look at the dad in the movie: his "main emotion" is anger, probably as a result of his upbringing. A lot of boys and men are taught this idea that you shouldn't show your emotions, and supress them, unless it's anger because that's masculine.
My psych teacher used this movie too my sophomore year!
I saw someone point out that riley's parents' emotions are good at working as a team. While Riley's emotions conflict a lot and don't work together as well. Adults' emotions are (usually) more stable, kids' emotions are a little more chaotic. Its a subtle but great metaphor for emotional stability.
aaron immediately crying at wholesome dad moment tm is a vibe
Calvin: kill sadness
Also Calvin: *emotionally destroyed at sad things in other reactions*
"Does a memory ever fade forever?"
I had a very happy surprise from my daughter; as I watched her walking across bricks, but changing her feet direction so she didn't step on the cracks.
It brought back a memory of me at a restaurant in town doing the same thing she was doing, my mom told me to slow down so I don't .... Right as she was saying fall I tripped and smacked my head real hard against a table.
I started crying, and my grandpa said, "Check to see if his brains are falling out!" My grandmother shot him a look, and said "Don't tell him that" because that made me cry harder.
Both of them past away just a few months apart when I was three. I asked family members if my memory checks out. Everything checks out, I was even told that grandpa was a kidder, and would lightly tease the grandchildren.
I love that I got this memory back, and while it made three year old me cry, 40 year old me is chuckling right along with my grandpa.
That is just lovely 🥰 and your grandpa sounds like a real character!
Something I noticed was that every emotion was designed with just their exclusive color but Joy's hair is blue. So I took that as you need a little sadness to really appreciate and understand joy.
Her aura is blue too! :)
Disgust also has a little purple
As someone who grew up with severe depression as a child, I really appreciate the movie not demonizing sadness. I feel like especially when you're younger, you're told that being sad isn’t valid emotion because you're ‘ too young to have anything to be sad about’. that kind of stuff can make you bottle up a lot of emotions which can be really unhealthy. When you're a kid and you get depression, it can feel really confusing because you don't know why you're having such big emotions. With Riley, she ended up being numb to all of her emotions which is kind of how I was before I finally went to therapy
People always tell kids, don’t be sad, or don’t cry. Sadness is always demonized instead of acknowledged
18:18 Im glad Aaron got why sadnes was important right away. It’s not just about speciations joy, empathy, sympathy are important. Also sadness it’s a good way to share pain and let it out not just bottle it up. It was obvious that Riley was deeply hurting due to all the changes. She clearly wants to cry and express that she doesn’t feel okay with all those changes. Sadness felt the impulse to do something. So she started touching things.
If Riley had cried from the beginning in front of her parents they could have sorted things out sooner.
I love that core memories can "change color" years after they originally happened based on whatever is currently happening in your life. Or from finding out new information that you didn't know at the time. Memories of a loved one are tinged blue when that loved one dies because, joyful as the memories may be, they're tainted by the fact that the person is now gone. However, despite the fact that they're tinged blue, the yellow in them is all the brighter because hindsight makes you recognize how wonderful that time really was.
The happy/sad combo memories really make sense with loss. All of the happy memories get a touch of sadness when you remember. The definition of bittersweet.
Cinema Therapy did an episode on this movie. Apparently a lot of it, while simplified for children's understanding, is actually how our minds work.
I love their video about this movie
35:31 BLIND WAVE HOW COULD YOU???
Joy’s revelation about the importance of sadness is one of the best parts of the movie!
Words can't express how good this film is. Imagine there being a big-budget kid's film whose central message is that growing up is an inherently melancholic experience and that in order to be mentally healthy you need to learn to process all of your emotions.
If you guys get a chance, check out the short that comes after this, Riley's First Date, which has the dad's perspective when a BOY comes to the house to see Riley.
I never knew that existed. Thanks for pointing it out.
How did I not know this existed... I need to watch it
I just love how sadness starts touching everything and wants to start driving. Riley needs to express unhappiness about the move, she's not doing well and the more joy and the rest keep her from making Riley feel sad or upset, the more she loses control and makes more things sad. Pushing down an emotion doesn't make it go away
I absolutely love how it depicts depression, but also how joy could represent people not understanding depressed people like sadness and trying to diminish it or make it go away when it sometimes just can't.
The idea that 3/4s of the crew hasn't seen this blows my mind, but I absolutely love watching people see this for the first time and just sobbing from how prominent the messaging is so I'm not complaining (got a feeling this'll happen to most if not all of them by the end and with how long this vid is I'm super excited for the discussion afterwards). My favorite little detail that I don't see anyone talking about is how some of the emotions have one main color, but Joy has blue hair and eyes to show her connection to sadness as a feeling and Disgust has a purple ascot cause that feeling comes from fear. I've seen this movie so many times, and I only realized the Disgust one recently so props to the Pixar character designers for coming up with that
Fun fact : the song that plays when Joy is crying in the memory dump is called "Tears of Joy".
Didn't know that, awesome detail 😃
The fact that her happy memories become sad..Not cause Sadness touched the ball..cause that's what happens...Happy memories become sad cause you can never relive that memory
That has to be the happiest newborn I’ve ever seen. My sister’s fourth child came out raging against the world and even almost a year later, he’s still howling with fury at an unfair world.
It's interesting to see how each emotion has what's called a crippling overspecialization : each is an expert for the emotion they embody (obviously) but they utterly suck at making Riley feel anything else. During the dinner argument, Disgust only manages to trigger a sarcastic answer when pretending to be Joy ; Fear triggers insecurity and anxiety ; and Anger triggers agressivity and irritation.
Will say this...soundtrack is perfection for this movie ! The notes and timing are so on point, so amazing !
Michael Giacchino
Look him up on IMDb, he's been responsible for a lot of great movie soundtracks.
@@Morrisman1996 Up...and all the intro sequence is top tier !
I really like the idea of sadness touching a memory and changing its color. I think it's just cool to show the idea of how you can feel something in the moment of a memory, and then later on in your life, you may have a different perspective, and now when you think of that memory, it brings out a different emotion.
Like how in the movie there is a happy memory that gets turned sad because Riley misses those times.
Or maybe someone has a good memory with a previous lover, and now when they look back on it, it might make them angry, upset, or disgusted instead.
Or maybe somebody had a moment where they were grossed out or upset by something, but their friend thought their reaction was funny, so maybe now they find that moment funny.
I think it's just a really cool concept that they added in the movie
While Ratatouille is my favourite Pixar film, I'd argue this is their best one. A masterpiece visualising such a complex topic, yet simple story. Hits me every time.
4:38 Fascinating how Eric starts us off with "Oh I don't want sadness to be more prominent" and hitting exactly what this film is about :D
Would have to respectfully disagree, Wall-e is the best pixar movie👹 dont disrespect my boy like that lol jk
Ratatouille is my fav too!!!!!
@@EyeZayUhArt I didn't say all the other ones are bad. I sadly never got to connect with Wall-e like many others do. Finding Nemo is the third in my top 3
How about that, I feel the exact same way. Ratatouille is my favorite personally (though, I also think it's one of their best movies as well, my own bias aside), but Inside Out is my second favorite and I think it's their best. My third favorite is Coco, and after that it gets more muddled and uncertain cause there are SO many amazing ones and it's more a case of personal taste, but that's definitely my top 3.
I actually think ratatouille is their best film. This is a very close contender though. And Wall E is fantastic too.
The ending scene where Sadness takes over always makes me cry.
Everyone cries over bing bong but the scene that gets me is when she just breaks down in front of her parents
Same. When I saw this in theaters I cried then and when Joy cried in the pile of forgotten memories.
In fact, I just got out of seeing Inside Out 2, and I cried during that movie too
"I'm glad she got to 11, and most of her memories were joyful" - Rick
Weird to think that for most of us, it wasn't like that. But hey, a movie is a movie for a reason
Riley's brain is still very young and developing. These are the very basic aspects of emotion. In a technically more mature and wiser brain, Joy would develop into Appreciation, Sadness into Empathy, Disgust into Judgement, Anger into Discipline, and Fear into Insight and they all work together for the betterment of the human. But also emotions can work together like Joy and Sadness to express a feeling of comfort or love. Disgust and Anger can work together to express disappointment or loathing. Also Joy and Anger can work together to express revenge or justice, in terms of passion. Real human brains are of course not perfect and carry a whole lot more Core Memories and Islands of Personality that change color and break all the time.
The idea of an emotion pressing a button but then it doesn't correlate to the same emotion would result in a mixed brain signal. For example: If Riley had Synesthesia, it may look like when Fear and Joy work together in an atypical way. Fear would be frantically asking for more information about broccoli and Joy decides to combine colors and taste in order to make Fear happy. Fear in his panic accepts the color and adds it to the knowledge bank, now the color purple is connected to broccoli. Fear and Joy are then both satisfied with the solution they found and that brain signal of taste and sound are interconnected. Riley would then be positively sure that she hates the color purple because seeing purple to her would in no doubt taste like broccoli and broccoli is gross.
This movie is obviously very simplified, however, it is a great starting point for better appreciating your own and other's mental health.
The Bing Bing rocket scene had me crying in the theater when this movie came out. I had a stuffed animal that I took everywhere and somewhere along the way I lost it and forgot. That scene and, "Take her to the moon for me," acted like closure for the pure joy/imagination I had as a child but forgot all about.
I’ve seen this movies at least a dozen times and I still tear up every time Bing Bing fades away.
Bing Bing, you noble bastard, rest in peace.
i saw this movie with a friend who had lost her father recently and hadn’t processed it. her family weren’t talking openly with their emotions etc and she had closed off from us and it could t have come at a more perfect time
I’m glad you guys can now say you know about Bing Bong and what people feel when they say a show ‘Bing Bonged’ them.
No matter how many times I see this movie, it always makes me cry. It’s just so beautifully done.
4:40 “aww I don’t want sadness to become more prominent” uh oh… you’re in for a rough one, Eric
As someone with depression that had a traumatic experience bc of moving as a child- this movie is so important and hits so hard. I'm so glad kids get to watch it and even if they don't understand it all- they're going to be able to talk about it and understand it more as they grow up.
Fun fact: The writer/director's daughter (who inspired Riley/the whole movie) was the voice of Ellie in the first ten minutes of Up. Which actually makes a lot of sense with what we know about Riley before her pre-teen years.
28:42 Another good example of Joy being egotistical 😂
It makes sense all main emotions have their good sides and bad sides.
37:46 Richard Kind, the voice of Bing Bong actually cried each time he tried to say the line "Take her to the moon for me, ok?".
On a rewatch I realized how perfectly this movie depicts depression. "We can't make Riley feel... anything.."
This is a nice surprise.
Saddest part is Bing Bong. Every kid had a perfect friend but eventually they just get forgotten with life's junk. We're always chasing that feeling as adults
To me the saddest part was definitely the moment where Sadness affects all the core memories and Riley's talk with her parents. That's so emotional to me.
I literally went to Toys R Us and bought a Bing Bong toy back when this film came out and I've kept it on my shelf for years now just because that moment made me so sad, I never want him to be forgotten
Bing Bong will never be forgotten!!
@@joevictor53 when I first watched it I had a quick feeling i had forgotten and someone I recognized but no face idk hard to describe just a feeling of longing and sadness mixed with a thank you
@@joevictor53 me too!
The casting for this movie was amazing. The actor’s voice Sadness and Joy are perfect knowing how they are in Office and Parks and Rec
I love this movie so much. It really shows how important are all the emotions for us and even though “sadness, anger or fear” are the emotions people use to avoid. There’s nothing wrong on see some situations on the bright side, but also it is healthy and natural to let you feel other emotions and not just ignore them and force yourself to be happy. In this case Joy is avoiding Riley to start grieving (yes, moving out is a process of grief) about moving to another city, away of the place she called home her whole life and all her friends.
As a child’s therapist this movie is perfect to teach children about the importance of the emotions and how to recognize them but not let them to take over of all your life. I’m so happy you reacted to it!!!
Not being able to feel sadness of joy, tunnel vision, the train of thought derailing, losing your identity, feeling nothing. Such great depiction!
This is been my comfort movie for eight years now, and one of the things I love about this movie is that the more I watch it the deeper it gets, which I think is pretty cool. My connection to this movie that when I was 14 I had moved from the only home I’ve ever loved to some shoddy townhouse that I didn’t want to be at in a town I grew to dislike. When Inside Out came out, I was only 16, so it only been two years since we moved and when I watched it, it just brought up so many emotions that I didn’t realize were still buried so deep. I was crying so hard in the movie theater that day, and I knew I was in for it at the beginning when the emotions were screaming as the family was getting all of their stuff packed up. That really sucked so yeah so I can’t watch the part before Riley cries in front of her parents without sobbing like a baby. It gets me every time. I’ve lived in my new town for 10 years now and this place still doesn’t feel like home.
Love that none of the other students bullied Riley for crying.
Right? The cool kids looked more concerned than judgmental.
@@dontmindme.imjustafraidofe9327 If only that was how real school worked
@@auden4531 Right? Kids used to laugh at me all the time for crying. I blame them for that because their parents probably laughed at them for crying, too. Still, no reason to take it out on me. How they learned that crying is a good thing every once in a while.
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Aaron had such a unique experience to this move with being a father, i couldn't help but only watch him because he was having such a heart warming experience to this.
it made my heart melt, and when he was crying i was right there with him.
THIS is why I love blind wave.
1. I love Aaron breaking at the Bing-bong scene before it even started...cause I was too.
2. Sweet A Goofy Movie shirt, Aaron.
first time i saw this movie, i was CERTAIN Bing Bong would be the twist villain, cuz every movie had one at this time.
i had never been more wrong.
Same. This was right around the time Disney and Pixar were doing more and more twist villains so I thought the same. So glad he wasn't but his story hurt me more than a villain ever could
Funny enough, Bing Bing was gonna be an antagonist alongside Joy.
“You know that pain and guilt can’t be taken away with the wave of a magic wand! They’re the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don’t want my pain taken away, I need my pain!” - Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
I love the idea of yes looking back at happy childhood memories can feel sad. Because yeah. We all want to go back to that but can. But it doesn't change that it was a good day/events.
A sequel following someone living with autism would be interesting. Coupling alexithymia* with sensory problems would present a mind that functions very differently to Riley's, and would be a good start in showing how much variation there is in the way people's minds work.
* Alexithymia is essentially having emotions but not being able to recognise them within yourself, and having reduced/no change in behavior in response to them. It is the 'emptiness' many describe when they have depression, as they lose sight of their emotions so they seem to be missing.
Depending why you have it though, alexithymia can be a long-term/permanent feature that is simply the norm. I prefer to describe it as 'blank' since that implies there's nothing much there, but not that anything is missing. In other words, alexithymia isn't itself a problem, it's just different.
While that's a very interesting idea, I believe it's been confirmed that the sequel will still focus on Riley, but she'll be 16 at that point. Then again, this kind premise could be explored in so many different ways that I would still love to see your idea put into practice.
@@theinspiredgamer1949 Having seen glimpses into other character's heads in the first film, an approach could involve a friend who is the focus of many of Riley's social interactions, and with whom we see a back and forth between the different minds like we saw with Riley's parents around the dinner table.
They wouldn't get as much attention as Riley of course, but they could still be shown enough to decently represent an autistic/alexithymic mind.
Forgive me for asking but is Rick autistic? For the record I'm autistic as well so I'm not judging I would just like to know the full story instead of assuming anything
@@auden4531 I haven't seen Rick state he is, so like you I am choosing not to assume anything.
I myself exhibit enough autistic traits that people around me (including the doctor I spoke to about it) think it is plausible I am autistic, but luckily it has never caused me enough trouble to need a diagnosis. So I don't ever call myself autistic, but I have spent lots of time looking into it and neurodivergence more widely, and Rick might be in the a similar position for all I know.
@@AngryShuckie That's fair and thank you for explaining that to me. Also I TOTALLY agree with your first comment about a movie like this but with an autistic main character
I feel like Amy Poehler is perfect as Joy, because she is pretty much just reprising her role as Leslie in Parks and Rec. In Parks she is super enthusiastic and wants to help everyone but she is also a complete steamroller who tries to make decisions for everyone else.
Honestly, I feel like you could probably get the whole Parks cast to rehash their roles for this movie 😂
Leslie as Joy, April as Disgust, Ron as Anger and Tom as Fear. I’m not sure who could play sadness though.
Kyle is sadness
I love how the moment they saw the clown, both Eric and Calvin "reacted" the same way XD
Even when we're older we still hate it.
I love how the movie portrays the fact that Riley avoids his problems and all the changes in his life. She wanted to continue being the sweet and cheerful Riley before her parents, so sadness was bottled up and she felt that she had to do something about it. She was fighting internally
edited: I clarify for all those who stayed with the evil version of sadness
I love the way this move lays the groundwork for expressing a wide variety of emotional experiences: being able to express that fear is driving you, or that you don't have access to some of your emotions (either temporarily in response to trauma, or as a more long-standing thing), or that you express everything through a certain lens (like the bus driver), or that you feel like your emotions are at war with each other...it's very useful as a framework for making sense of some very esoteric concepts.
I love Inside Out! I always laugh so hard when I hear the TRIPLE DENT GUM jingle, and the FOOT scene is just pure comedy gold. Plus the music in this movie is SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!
I was just thinking about this movie! My therapist was telling me about "touchstone" memories, which are the first experience a person has that creates a dysfunctional thinking pattern (such as "I am not good enough" or "I am unsafe in this specific situation"). They usually happen during childhood and the brain gets stuck until that memory is fully processed. I thought "core" memories in this movie were very similar! I love how the creators tried to make this as psychologically accurate as possible.
I know some processes in neurodivergent brains are different, but at least for autism and adhd the idea of the core emotions stands. Certainly what is different is how memories/experiences get processed, for example routines don't get reinforced as well through repetitions. Negative input also has more staying power, leading to things like rejection sensitivity.
The way the emotions are expressed can also be different, like stimming for happiness.
Sometimes I'm surprised at the movies you haven't seen but I don't mind, now I can just relive the movie and learn new perspectives on it.
Inside Out 2 is currently scheduled for a June 2024 release and should cover Riley going through puberty and experiencing new emotions. The only actors that is so far confirmed (to my knowledge) is Amy Poehler as Joy, Phyllis Smith as Sadness, Lewis Black as Anger and Diane Lane as Riley's mom.
Her emotions as a kid to me seems like primary colors, they can be mixed with other colors and create something else. Sarcasm was produced in an attempt for Disgust pretending to be joy. For the parents, their emotions have evolved and I think it's a good representation that we have that dominant emotion in all of us and even if it's not sadness, it not that all negative. For the mother, sadness being in charge doesn't mean she's always sad. It's more on sadness already evolved to become empathy just like how its shown during that argument. She was the one who was trying to be more understanding or acknowledging of Riley's feeling. The father on the other hand with Anger being in charge, well that emotion actually evolved to Authority. He's not always mad but since Anger is usually considered as a strong feeling, and of conviction and with how it was portrayed in the film, Authority was in charge to show how to discipline Riley. Anyway, it's my first time watching your reactions. Looking forward to more :)
This is a masterpiece of showing emotion. There are just times when i feel like some emotions are gone and the other ones are trying to fill in and it just makes things worse
I haven't seen this movie again since it premiered and goddamn I still love this movie and it really made me "emotional" again. Haha
This movie was not what I expected when I first saw it. I laughed a lot and cried 3 times.
Great movie.
This movie, and it's messages, were so well crafted. There are so many layers and deep messages. My favorite one is with Bing Bong. As a kid, we create an imaginary friend so we will have an ideal companion. Someone who will like everything we like, support us unconditionally, and always be there for us. At the end, in the memory dump, Bing Bong realized that he was, literally, holding Riley back by insisting on being real to her. So he supported her by letting go, allowing her to remember how to be happy. Personally, I don't think that means Riley will never remember him, as there will still be memories of him, for awhile anyways. But I think that he will no longer feel real to her. She will remember her him as a figment of her imagination. A pleasant set of memories, and nothing more. And for me, that feels even sadder than forgetting him.
Another subtle one was when Disgust gets Anger to burn open the window. I interpreted that as Riley, subconsciously, being disgusted at how useless her anger was, and used that disgust to channel her anger into making a, literal, breakthrough to allow her to let joy and sadness back into her life.
Fun Fact: There are actually seven base emotions (according to the creators of the movie) but they reduced it to five to make story-telling easier.
The two others that they kind of blended into the other characters were surprise and contempt.
When Rick watches Brooklyn 99, Joy is pressing that button like nuts
Man I’m so happy you reacted to this, Rick’s conversation gave me an interesting idea of a sequel about the mind of someone on the autistic spectrum, I don’t know that would be interesting. I like how the movie shows how brains become more complex over time. Also, while I’m guessing you’ve already seen it, you should react to Mitchell’s vs the Machines if you haven’t yet.
I always thought the emotions were like a family themselves (Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, Anger) They can’t live with each other, can’t live without each other either
I remember seeing this movie in theatres but I was way too young and lacking life experience that I didn't understand it on a deeper level. I can't help myself from tearing up from watching it now as an adult since it's much more relatable and I really appreciate the complex topics portrayed in it having experienced severe depression myself, everything was handled very well. By far my favorite Pixar movie, such a masterpiece.
the inside out theme/soundtrack is so simple yet so hit you in the feels
complex emotions are definitely a thing. Even if my therapist hadn't had a long talk with me about it, that's one thing I already knew. I think of specific events in my life and it's easy to get overwhelmed by several different emotions at once. Learning how to regulate that is the part of the key to growing up.
I've never seen another film that so brilliantly captures the inner workings of human nature in a funny, relatable way without being simplistic or sentimental.
I remember watching this movie for the first time in theatres with my mom.
I was crying so hard I had to take a few minutes to calm down before leaving the theatre. It hit way too close to home.
I watched it when I was way younger when it came out, and I definitely felt the turnaround in terms of what I feel about sadness.
it's a nice trick the story plays, it's like you're seeing her through joy's perspective.
I remember this movie being a core moment in our psychology class and I've made entire classes based on this movie alone. eckmans theory is being represented so thorough here and it involves a great deal of theory and psychological studies, even though there's a short film who did this earlier.
Sadness touching all the memories represents how our feelings about memories change - happy memories getting tinged with sadness is nostalgia.
The meta with Bing Bong is that most people say they never had an imaginary friend - but maybe they did and they just forgot about them.
Sadness leading the mom: she has dealt with her traumatic/sad experiences and accepted them so now the team is led by it. Anger leading the dad: yeah well 😅😆
I LOVE the fact that you write things down while watching. 😊
The musical theme throughout the entire movie is amazing.
love how this movie show's that you cannot have happiness without sadness. You need to learn to balance the 2 or 1 will overtake and ruin your mindset on life.
this is one of the few perfect films. where everytime I watch it I learn more about myself, and others. It's smart, witty, very very very sad, but it balances it out perfectly with some of the best humor and laughter. 10/10
I agree with Rick, I would love for a sequel to go harder, but I don't think Disney would go into certain areas as they try to stay "family friendly"
This is the type of movie that as a kid I thought it was solid, pretty good even
As an adult I realize just how masterful this movie really is
love how this movie shines a light on the importance sadness plays in our life (in healthy relationships, in mourning, in releasing repression, even in recognizing you're making a mistake), as well as the negative effects of toxic positivity (Joy's perspective/actions for the first half of the movie), and how it can contribute to depression, which was portrayed _very_ accurately and realistically as primarily feeling nothing at all, just a big emptiness, with the occasional sparks of fear/anxiety, anger/irritation, and disgust. sadness, and of course joy, are actually often absent feelings for those with depression (or when they're felt it's typically shallow and fleeting).
also what rick said about emotions being felt and expressed differently as a neurodivergent person, really relate to that! i'm autistic with adhd (inattentive type), and it's true. at least for me, my emotional responses are not as immediate and definitely not as noticeable as a neurotypical's, but not only that, they also often aren't the "appropriate" emotional responses for the situation, and i have to figure out what a nt person's response should be so i can mimic it. so it would be really cool to see this movie from a nd person's perspective, but i don't think we'll be seeing that anytime soon. there is a sequel in the works i've heard, but who knows what the plan is with that lol. looking forward to it either way though.
anyway, enjoyed the reaction and discussion!
As a neurodivergent person (inattentive ADHD) I know exactly what Rick and you mean by delayed emotional reaction, and inappropriate responses. Yes, it would be fascinating to see this movie in a neurodivergent way!
I haven't rewatched Inside Out since it first came out. Having been through a bit more of my life, I realize how much I underappreciated how this movie was executed. Awesome stuff.
"Go save Riley" never fails to make me cry
I watched it in 2015 as soon as it came out and it had such a big impact on me! Remembered it for years to come. I am so amazed by the imagination, creativity and storytelling of the production team of this movie. While watching I didn't paid enough attention that all the memories contained only one emotion and when at the end the core memory was both sad and happy at the same time, I felt that in my soul and even gasped very loudly. It made such a perfect sense! Every memory we have always consists of more than one emotion.
I cried so much when we lost Bon Bon and for a little while I thought why we should have lost it? Then I realised that loosing our imaginary friends is also a part of us growing up. It should remain a distant memory, but it shouldn't have a strong impact on us anymore.
Despised sadness so much, thought why she was so stupid! Knowing that it is just a cartoon, just a plot, but that taught us that without sadness you can not possibly realise and remember happiness as well as give yourself time to reboot and let some painful thing go. 10/10 movie. Once again I amazed by Pixar
I am seeing the new "INDSIDE OUT 2" tonight and I chose you guys because yalls was the longest and most in depth watching then any of the other videos!!! Plus, I wanted an all-male perspective on the movie. I can tell the guy wearing the "Nope" shirt was really into it and the guy with the red shirt finally broke when Bing-Bong sacrificed his life to save Riley. I know yall are older and mature men, but what this movie taught me was that it was about growing up and losing your childhood. Memory dump. Your imaginary friend. Everything that Riley grew up with and misses from home make her have a mental breakdown to the point she wants to run away, and that's where the islands start to collapse. I finally broke at the end when it showed Sadness replaying alll the memories of what Riley missed as a child and that's something everyone misses. That's the point of this movie is about remembering how happy you were as a child and then you grow up!!! People move on. Just think of how many people youve lost in 9-years and how sad it was losing them. That's why I think the first one was an absolute brilliant and genius movie. I hope yall do one for the second one when it comes out. Cant wait!!!!💛❤💚💜💙
“Take her to the moon for me”
And there’s the pixar tears
So excited to see the reactions to Bing Bong. Always brings a tear to my eye
"Maybe he will come back and be more powerful than you can ever imagine"". That cracked me up so much! Lol! 😂