MOVIE REVIEW
Inside Out
Movie Review
W
ith a unique premise that delves into the mind,
Inside Out is based in a new cinematic world,
which is interesting enough to get you attracted, but lacks the depth to keep you addicted.Intelligently
crafted with powerful imagination, the film is about how
the brain functions. It is about internal logic and external
manifestation of emotions and their impact on memories - short term and core memories.Primarily, the tale
reveals what is
going on inside
Riley's
(Kaitlyn
Dias) mind. The
plot involves her
emotions;
Joy
(Amy
Poehler),
Sadness (Phyllis
Smith), Fear (Bill
Hader), Disgust
(Mindy
Kaling)
and Anger (Lewis
Black). They live
in the headquarters, designed like
a complex control
room. They are
entrusted
with
her
well-being
and memories, to
make-up who she
is and develop her
personality.The
plot races through
Riley's
initial
growing up years.
Then, when she
is 11 years old,
her father takes
up a job in San
Francisco
and
the entire family
is uprooted from
Minnesota. Riley has a hard time adjusting in her new
surroundings. Although Joy, Riley's main and most important emotion, tries to keep things positive, the conflict of the emotions on how best to navigate a new city,
house, schools and friends to develop Riley's personality, forms the crux of this story.Though complicated,
co-directors Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen along
with their writers Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley, have
very smoothly ironed out all the complex issues, making
this a simple, easy to absorb narration. The more you
try to analyse the creative process, the more impressive it gets, but unfortunately the conflicts are too few to
give you a high.The film is brought to life with interesting
characterisation and props, like the train of thoughts. The
character graphs are welletched within the environment. It's somewhat strange
to think about characters
as short-lived as emotions
and imaginary friends, Bing
Bong (Richard Kind) and
a floppy-haired boyfriend,
but they really work on two
levels; the emotions themselves as exaggerated figures with distinct points of
view and how they help
us to get more information
about Riley.The messages
are simple that hit the right
notes. The narration drags
at mid-point as it tells us
the journey of Joy is to accept being sad. Sadness
isn't necessarily an emotion to reduce, but an integral part of human li