Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-15 (Saturday)

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

Inside Out 2 (theatrical) New Pixar movie and sequel to 2015's "Inside
Out" which follows the emotions inside a young girl's head.  The first
movie had the emotion "Joy" (Amy Poehler) bullying all the other
emotions until she's forced to come to grips that "Sadness" (Phyllis
Smith) is a valid and important emotion too.  This movie has the young
girl hitting puberty and getting new emotions, "Anxiety," "Envy,"
"Ennui," and "Embarrassment."  Anxiety explains the girl needs more
complex emotions than the original group and Anxiety's job is to plan
for the future.  Joy isn't ready to give up control of the girl
prompting Anxiety and the new emotions to bottle and discard the
original group.  I really liked this movie. The thing I really like
about Pixar movies is on the surface it might look like it's a kid
movie, but they are very much also aimed at adults.  There was a line in
the movie, "I don't know how to stop anxiety.  Maybe that's what happens
when you grow up, you feel less joy." I think that line is going to hit
a lot of people hard.

I didn't think Inside Out was a kids' movie. They consulted with real
psychologists, or maybe just figured out how to write off years of
therapy as a business expense.