Inside Out

I finally got around to watching Inside Out last night. I was actually really pleasantly surprised by this movie because I thought it was going to be alot more childish than it actually was. I loved how creative the story was, especially all the different parts of the mind and how Pixar chose to represent it, like how there was a literal train of thought, or an imagination land, and how each memory was either stored or forgotten. The film also made a great use of humour while at the same time being quite poignant, for example the Sadness character and the way she was used as a metaphor to explain that in order to find Joy there needs to be some sadness. The movie was obviously really carefully thought out as to how the different emotions affected the main character, Riley, as she went through a difficult time in her life, and I loved the two different perspectives in the film, jumping between the real world and Riley's mind, so you can see exactly how different things in life affected her emotionally. I also loved how they showed that everyone has the same emotions and how they humanised the emotions....by giving them emotions....and that not every one is perfect. For example, Riley got angry, scared and disgusted, all the most negative emotions, alot in the film, and you could see her act on these emotions in a way that was much more human than a lot of other characters in Disney films; Disney princesses are rarely presented with any human flaws and generally always have the same 'perfect' and lovable characters.