The movie was great! It teaches many important life lessons

Rating: 10/10 (1 March 2017)

Understanding another person is one of the most difficult tasks a human being experiences. Children, teenagers, and even adults, often gain their knowledge of the world through their surroundings. Since, electronic devices, which display movies and TV shows, are prevalent in today's society, audiences often gravitate to those forms of entertainment and absorb the information. Good movies leave lasting impacts on the minds and hearts of the people who watch the works. In Disney Pixar's Inside Out, the personified emotions that control peoples' feelings, and the core memory spheres are a vital role in a child's understanding of life.
The five emotions stationed in the young girl, Riley's, mind, Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Anger, and Fear, teach people that the way they feel corresponds to the way they act. If everyone could look into another's head, as audiences viewed in Inside Out, understanding the human race would not be a difficult topic. However, that is not the case. Since this movie directly addresses the thoughts in a human's head, even children can understand the emotions better. The color differentiation of each emotion not only draws attention, but also allows people to understand that there are different ways they can feel. Additionally, this movie allows audiences to understand the human nature by personifying the emotions in another person's head. These specific emotions individually and physically control what Riley does, which directly shows that there is a correspondence between the way a person feels to their actions. The way a human feels controls how they act. For example, when a person is sad, they cry, or when they happy they smile. This movie shows that emotion, thoughts, and actions are all connected: emotions control actions, actions control thoughts and thoughts control how the person feel. In addition to these emotions, the core memory spheres show children that as they grow older, they will have a mixture of emotions in their memories, not just one at a time.
Core memories are important to a development of a child, and Inside Out shows audiences that as people mature, their mind changes with them. The main character, Riley, during the movie is a prepubescent "tween" who moves to a new city. Throughout the events of the movie, Riley only has simplistic feelings. This is directly shown in the movie when only one control platform, and only one emotion controls her at a time. In the end clips of the movie, the audiences get a glimpse of the emotions inside other characters head, including the the main character's parents. The glimpse presents the "matured" minds of her parents, showing all the emotions sitting in a large console where all the emotions can act at together in an organized fashion. Riley's mind, is a mess throughout most of the movie. The events depicted in her mind, show all the emotions cramming together on one small monitor, fighting over who controls her. However, after the events of the movie, Riley's maturing mind beings going through "puberty" as the character, Disgust, points out, and shows all the emotions working together in an "upgraded" control console. Additionally, all of her core memory orbs are only one specific emotion, joy.
Children must learn that they can not be happy all the time, and in the movie, Inside Out, children can better understand they need to experience all emotions. As shown in the movie, Riley's core memories all gleam gold, representing that all her important memories in her life were happy. Joy, who primarily directs the emotions, leads the group and takes over the control board, not allowing Sadness to participate in anything. As Riley tries to run away, her emotions in the control room, not including Joy and Sadness, try to stop her from leaving. Since Joy and Sadness are lost outside the control room, Disgust tries to lead as Joy does and tells Fear to "scare" Riley into staying. However, all the emotions could not get her to feel anything. The lever, telling Riley to react, would not budge. As Joy and Sadness return to the room after their unexpected adventure, the bus Riley is riding begins pulling out. Joy, realizing Sadness is the only emotion that can save Riley, tells Sadness to work the control board. Sadness, hesitantly reaches for the lever and pulls in down. Riley jerks up and runs off the bus, going home. This shows children, that being sadness is an essential emotion, and not a bad. This movie shows that being sad is good, and shows that people are human. As, she enters her house, her parents run and hug her. Riley, starts telling her parents how awful the move was for her and Joy hands Sadness Riley's happy core memories, and they turn blue as they are projected in her mind. Riley begins to cry and smile as her family embraces, and a blue and gold swirled memory orb forms in her head. This specific orb shows, that memories are a mix of emotions. This specific scene shows the sadness Riley feels, mixed with the happy emotions of family. After this specific event, Riley's mind Is shows stronger as ever, with multiples of mixed emotions including fear and disgust. These specific scenes show kids that emotions are not simplistic, that people grow and mature feeling different emotions at the same time.
In the children's movie, Inside Out, people are controlled by five specific emotions, which teach audiences important parts of human life. In modern culture, movies often impact people's minds. Human minds share a connection between, acting, feeling and thinking. Empathy is a feeling not many people experience on a daily basis, but through this movie, it is achievable.