New Delhi: What exactly are you thinking about now? Do you really want to know more about ‘Inside Out’? Or is your inside chiming with the nitty-gritties of a hollowed life?
This animated drama has an invisible label that says “Let me simplify the oddity of your understanding of the psyche”.
‘Inside Out’ uses an 11-year-old girl’s predominant emotions – Joy, Sadness, Anger, Disgust and Fear to layer the personality of Riley. If the same idea were to be transferred to an adult, Pete Docter, would probably have to make another film because unlike kids, adults’ emotions are more often than not unclassified. Adults take time in deciding where they fit in. Give a 40-year-old man a candy bar, he’ll think ten times to decide whether to munch or nod away in refusal. A little kid is happy unwrapping the candy bar in a second whereas the adult is still considering the pros and cons of digesting it.
This wonderful, also, likeable film is all about that final decision. Until Riley is innocent, all the emotions nominate Joy to be their leader; in fact Joy is the one giving orders to Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust. But does happiness alone make the man? Man cannot be chained to a particular emotion for a long time.
We might not have noticed this phenomenon but it is true of all creatures. When all else fails, we turn to sadness for rescue. Emotions work like a chain of thought.
If there’s anger, there’s sadness too keeping watch in the corner. Naturally when the former takes a backseat, the latter takes the center stage. Sadness will in one way or another receive a baton from clarity which leads to the most wanted of emotions – joy. And only through this circle can we explore completeness.
While pulling us along with Riley on her adventurous trip to the center of her brain, Pete Docter, cleverly uncovers the mysterious case of the workings of a gentle mind. And growing up, obviously, involves a heavy load of forgetting and collecting, experiencing and negotiating. That’s all the more reason for an adult to feel nothing or everything at the same time.
Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’ is probably the greatest lesson that schools didn’t teach you. It’s the logic of every mind inside and out.
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