Inside Out
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jackWow. I loved the way the emotions were characterised and worked together in running Riley. I wasn't as engaged by the plot as some people were or as I was in some other Pixar films, I was really interested, but I expected things to happen basically as they did.
There were lots of funny moments. There were a few things that really annoyed me, but not as many as I feared from the trailer.
I thought the basic message about how different feelings contribute to the whole person was really well done, more detail and caveats below.
And wow, it had a lot about feelings and depression and sad moments, which left me really thoughtful, but I suspect will not matter to some people and maybe hit other people like a hammer blow.
I love the way the emotions work together! That even when they're bickering, they all assume each other are well meaning, and are a team. From the very first when they're introduced, they're described as having a useful role, that disgust is useful for avoiding poison and fashions you don't like, that anger is useful for caring about justice, etc, etc.
And that at the end, it's even more so, that all, including sadness, contribute to a healthy person, and that a healthy person isn't just "100% happy", but maybe driven by happy, with input from a balance of all the other emotions.
And the moment when the console shut down, that felt like an animated version of Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and Half depression cartoon, that depression may not be "sadness" but "no ability to most feelings at all".
Minor things
Poor poor bingo :(
I loved the way the emotions were characterised, they all seemed appropriate but also interesting and understandable.
There were lots of things I loved. All the jokes about how memory worked, mixing up the "facts" and "opinion" boxes, clearing old memories, but never clearing the old adveritising jingle, etc. And there were a lot of other funny moments! I loved basically all the insights into the characters in _other_ people's heads, the mother, father, other minor characters, and especially the dog and cat. I wish there'd been more of that.
Although jeez, I wish it could have been funny without "yes, the inside of people's heads match 100% every gender stereotype ever" :(
I may be too jaded, when goofball island went away, I was sad it might be gone for good, but when the others failed, I didn't really think that Riley would lose family and friends for good (even though some people do :( ) But it was probably a lot more scary for someone without those expectations.
I loved the way the mind was set up. The headquarters, the core memories, the long-term memory, the islands of personality. And was all clearly explained in the set-up.
A lot of things felt a bit glossed over, although it may just be me. Moving to the big city and parents getting distracted and getting distressed, yes. But it seemed to happen really fast -- Dad wasn't yet angry and snapping, just distracted, surely he's been distracted for a couple of weeks before? A lot of the time one of the emotions, especially Anger, did something impulsive, I could see how it fit into the plot, but only a couple did I feel like that how I wanted to react.
There were lots of funny moments. There were a few things that really annoyed me, but not as many as I feared from the trailer.
I thought the basic message about how different feelings contribute to the whole person was really well done, more detail and caveats below.
And wow, it had a lot about feelings and depression and sad moments, which left me really thoughtful, but I suspect will not matter to some people and maybe hit other people like a hammer blow.
I love the way the emotions work together! That even when they're bickering, they all assume each other are well meaning, and are a team. From the very first when they're introduced, they're described as having a useful role, that disgust is useful for avoiding poison and fashions you don't like, that anger is useful for caring about justice, etc, etc.
And that at the end, it's even more so, that all, including sadness, contribute to a healthy person, and that a healthy person isn't just "100% happy", but maybe driven by happy, with input from a balance of all the other emotions.
And the moment when the console shut down, that felt like an animated version of Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and Half depression cartoon, that depression may not be "sadness" but "no ability to most feelings at all".
Minor things
Poor poor bingo :(
I loved the way the emotions were characterised, they all seemed appropriate but also interesting and understandable.
There were lots of things I loved. All the jokes about how memory worked, mixing up the "facts" and "opinion" boxes, clearing old memories, but never clearing the old adveritising jingle, etc. And there were a lot of other funny moments! I loved basically all the insights into the characters in _other_ people's heads, the mother, father, other minor characters, and especially the dog and cat. I wish there'd been more of that.
Although jeez, I wish it could have been funny without "yes, the inside of people's heads match 100% every gender stereotype ever" :(
I may be too jaded, when goofball island went away, I was sad it might be gone for good, but when the others failed, I didn't really think that Riley would lose family and friends for good (even though some people do :( ) But it was probably a lot more scary for someone without those expectations.
I loved the way the mind was set up. The headquarters, the core memories, the long-term memory, the islands of personality. And was all clearly explained in the set-up.
A lot of things felt a bit glossed over, although it may just be me. Moving to the big city and parents getting distracted and getting distressed, yes. But it seemed to happen really fast -- Dad wasn't yet angry and snapping, just distracted, surely he's been distracted for a couple of weeks before? A lot of the time one of the emotions, especially Anger, did something impulsive, I could see how it fit into the plot, but only a couple did I feel like that how I wanted to react.
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Date: 2015-07-30 01:40 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2015-07-30 02:08 pm (UTC)It was good, quite moving and funny, but not their best. A lot of the details of the world-building seemed to be a bit made-up-as-they-went-along rather than following logically from things that had been set up. I also loved the dog and cat :)
I commented before that Disney seem to be following a trend of past-participle titles (Frozen, Tangled, Enchanted). Seems Pixar are going for prepositions.
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Date: 2015-07-30 07:01 pm (UTC):)
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Date: 2015-07-30 02:30 pm (UTC)I had written off the film from the trailer because the conversation between the parents was really irritating: Dads are emotional absent and clueless, lol! I really don't understand why everyone other than Riley has either all male or all female emotions.
Yes, the context of what's going on in the real world was pretty glossed over. Did the parents actually not mention to Riley that they were moving? She's old enough to plan to go home by herself, she isn't old enough to be told about moving before it happens? And just generally I feel that it doesn't survive a whole lot of prodding. The rules are clear enough so the plot basically works, but I don't really get much sense of the story being part of a greater world, or the rules being more than what is needed to just support the story.
A critic said something about how the next film would be about the homunculi's homunculi, and I couldn't get that idea out of my my mind as I watched the film. Do all the emotions have emotions in their head? It doesn't make sense!
Bing, bong, bing, bong!
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Date: 2015-07-30 07:05 pm (UTC)Yeah, I did exactly the same. I was pleasantly surprised by how everything except that bit was a lot better. In fact, that scene with the parents was a good example of something I couldn't help finding funny, even though I didn't think it was ok that it was done like that. After all, lots of parents do have a "one paying attention, one distracted" dynamic even if it swaps over between conversations -- couldn't they have had the same joke without assuming all the man's emotions would be stereotypical men and all the woman's emotions would be stereotypical women?
Did the parents actually not mention to Riley that they were moving?
That particular bit didn't stand out to me, but quite a few other things did, like, it felt they were in the new city for only a couple of weeks, but that felt too fast to have given up hope completely without several major setbacks.
Do all the emotions have emotions in their head?
:)