"Congratulations San Francisco, you've ruined pizza!" - Inside Out

Halloooooo!

Movietime Monday!!! Yay ^^ Saturday morning, yes morning, I went to see Inside Out! Yes, going to the cinema is a morning activity for me. The idea of going to the cinema in the evening has become a strange one.

Now, let's get cracking.

Inside Out


**this post contains spoilers**

2015
Director: Pete Docter, Ronaldo Del Carmen
Cast: Voices of Amy Poelher, Phyllis Smith, Diane Lane, Mindy Kaling, Kyle MacLachlan,...
Lenght: 94min= 1h34min
Genre: Animation, adventure, humor,... Disney Pixar!

The first trailer starts with the quote: Do you ever look at someone and wonder, "What is going on inside their head?" Well, I know. Okay, I know Riley's head.  You get the impression we're just going to see a funny movie about emotions and how they control our actions (most of the time). But Disney Pixar wouldn't be Disney Pixar if there wasn't some deeper meaning we can all learn something from.

We're following Riley's emotional roller coaster ride during the first steps of growing up. Her primary emotion during childhood was Joy, with Fear, Anger, Sadness and Disgust playing smaller parts in the show. When Riley and her family move to San Fransisco, Sadness is starting to behave differently. Like, why is she even there? Why does she have to behave differently all of the sudden? Because of these changes, Joy and Sadness end up in Long Term Memory, leaving Fear, Anger and Disgust to manage headquarters. It took me a while to understand what the change in Sadness' character actually meant, but I got there in the end. It's genius how they approached the representation of feeling homesick for the first time.

Disney Pixar succeeds in explaining in a simple, funny and moving way how the brain works. Long term memory, imagination, fear, dream production, etc. They also explain that certain core memories are the ones that shape our character into who we are. But Disney Pixar also beautifully illustrates that these core memories are not set in stone and show us that through events, experiences and growing up people can change.

This movie is filled with jokes and oneliners for young and old and is relatable to everyone. Everybody's emotions were all over the place at one point in their life, but then your 'control panel' expands (read: you grow up) and all emotions get their own area to work on. Plus, it's fun to think that the inside of your brain actually looks like something like in this movie x) That these characters are actually the voices inside your head x)

Here's the trailers and a clip for you to enjoy ^^

Trailer

Clip

Thanks for reading!
xo - Sara