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Rating: Q=7, P=7 / Obsession
Scale 1=4, Scale 2=3, Scale 3=4, Scale 4=3
Animation, Coming of Age, Psychology, Tearjerker
My sister sent me more than a few messages to see this movie from the time it came out in theaters. "Have you seen it yet???" she'd text on a random evening. "Go see it!!" the next morning. Well, I finally did and was so thoroughly pleased. I usually have mixed feelings about Pixar movies. Sometimes the animators try to hard to make their characters look like the voice actors (which irritates me, somehow). Sometimes the narratives get cliche or the jokes are totally unfunny. But in this case everything worked. It was a perfectly imagined inside view of the human mind, the emotional workings of the brain.
We can't have just a few emotions and succeed in the world. Our strongest memories aren't just happy ones. New environments, new people and challenges will breakdown the old you and pave the way to a new one, with much more complex feelings and thoughts. Inside Out really makes the "growing up" concept understandable. And so importantly it shows the sadness is integral to life. I cried many tears at the end of this one.
We can't have just a few emotions and succeed in the world. Our strongest memories aren't just happy ones. New environments, new people and challenges will breakdown the old you and pave the way to a new one, with much more complex feelings and thoughts. Inside Out really makes the "growing up" concept understandable. And so importantly it shows the sadness is integral to life. I cried many tears at the end of this one.
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