Since all of the Riley's emotions are in touch with her, Sadness knew from the get-go how to address Riley's feelings after the family moved from Minnesota to SF. Only when Joy realized that she might be stuck in the Memory Dump forever and that one of Riley's Core Memories of happiness stemmed from an event of sadness in which her parents helped Riley through it did she understand Sadness' role
This is an important message in the movie: as Psychologists have always stated, being happy all the time is unhealthy. In order to be a functional human being, you need to experience a wide array of emotions. I’m glad this movie focuses on that vital message.
@@joylynch5204 Exactly... Joy wanted to go up, but Riley's emotional instability was causing the "earthquake" that caused the tube to break and send Joy into the Memory Dump with Bing Bong
All emotions are important Joy - optimistic vision Fear - survival instincts Disgust - rational sometimes cynical thinking Anger - strong desire for justice Sadness - compassion
The past doesn't define the present. The present defines the past. It's impossible for Riley to move forward if she doesn't acknowledge that she has been hurt, has suffered a loss, so she can then chart out a way forward. Fear keeps her safe, but it doesn't solve anything. Disgust keeps her comfortable, but she needs to embrace uncertainty. She's not strong enough to use Anger to solve her problems. And having Joy about things that aren't actually there is just lying to herself. No wonder she became depressed. If she doesn't use sadness having those emotions were just a waste of time.
I love how the parents have different emotions in charge. For her dad it is anger, though anger in her dad's case is not about being angry but about being confident, assertive and moving forward. For her mom it is sadness, but like the dad compassion and empathy are what she represents.
Joy is the perfect embodiment of "toxic positivity." When we all think being happy about a bad situation can somehow make us feel "better," in reality it's just bliss. It's a means of being distracted and dismissing your negative thoughts. People need to acknowledge this. It's OK to be sad.
@@SamtheBravesFan yeah, being sad is like the acceptance of something u can't deal with, thats why u feel weak. While being happy on the other hand feels like a distraction to me.
I just noticed that Riley starts out wearing a yellow jacket to school on her first day, signifying that Joy was in control at the start of that day. But on the day that she runs away, she's wearing a black jacket, and the control panel was going black too. It signified that she was out of touch with her emotions until Sadness came to fix it.
The “out of touch with her emotions” part is me. I’ve been that way for four years, by confusion, sourness, pessimistic, and cynical. All because of something so little like false appearances. I’ve been struggling to cry, watching dramatic movies and shows, listening to emotional music, playing dramatic games, reading dramatic stories.
Now that I’m older, I realize that the panel turning black was a metaphor for depression. Anger, Disgust, and Fear being unable to free the panel from the darkness consuming it shows how depression consumes you completely, before proceeding to immobilize you. Of course, depression isn’t something that can just be removed instantaneously like the bulb by Sadness, but the way this movie shows depression nullifying control over your own life is amazing.
This is because Riley was still starting to develop depression so it is easier to reverse, it is a shame that most people don't realize that they or someone they know is starting to develop depression.
Another detail you can see (but you have to be very observant about it) is Riley’s eyes turning more and more gray the closer she gets to boarding the bus leaving for Minnesota. Once Riley sat down in her seat with her eyes being completely gray, losing those beautiful blue sparks that were there before, that’s when both the audience AND the emotions realize depression had taken full control over the console. The “sky” inside Riley’s mind also starts to turn more and more gray after the collapse of Honestly Island forces her to lose her train of thought, but that’s a more obvious detail you notice throughout the final act of the movie.
@@royalheadquarters8449 The opposite of love is not hate but indifference. If you hate something you have to care about a part of that. Like animal abuse. We love animals, so we hate the abuse thereof. If we were indifferent we wouldn't get angry.
@@HexenkoeniginVonAngmar it is a phrase. "Lovers and haters" is just something that is quoted a lot. Also I never said lovers and haters are opposites. I said; Joy and sadness are; - opposites - but they're also lovers and haters (with lovers and haters nót referring to opposites) - and they're also perfect halves - and they're also yin and yang
1:13 I love that the destruction causes a bunch of long term memories to fall into the dump, because Riley’s going through depression and depression can really kill your memory
Very true! I feel like I have forgotten my past and the things that make me feel proud of myself whenever I had depression. I'll probably never get them back. But it's okay. It was worth it. Beating depression was worth it.
One thing nobody ever mentions: sadness is the only one that can take the running away idea from Riley's head is because her secondary feeling is regret. You only give up on things you regret.
Sadness taking control of Riley's future is so incredibly powerful. All of this started because Riley felt sad about how she left her life behind in Minnesota, but all the other emotions, particularly Joy, did everything they could except accepting their sadness. They tried to run, avoid, and fill it with other emotions, but every single one of them failed. It cured because Sadness came and gave Riley the most powerful cure, to accept and move on. Being sad is not being weak, being sad is accepting things for how they are. Running from sadness in pursuit of happiness and other emotions may sound like the right solution, but that is just that, running; sadness will never go away unless you truly accept the magnitude of it and what is happening in your life. Joy's antic is comparable to a dam. Holding back the water that just keeps coming and is unavoidable, which is Riley's sadness, behind a dam of Joy, will only pile things up. Sadness gave Riley and Joy the greatest gift of all, acceptance. She released the dam that clogged Riley's life. So powerful.
Yeah they honestly meant Well but they didn't get why sadness was important and sadness didn't really do anything but act mopy most of the time and didn't explain her actions and the other emotions trusted Joy maybe because she was the oldest of the group. Joy because she couldn't see a reason for unhappy memories and thought sadness was nothing but trouble for them tried to get rid of her but came to understand why sadness was important. Joy wasn't trying to selfish anymore than the parents who were encouraging her to be happy. They both meant no harm they just realize.
Joy was incredibly selfish when she abandoned Sadness and that’s so realistic it hurts, we would do anything to be happy and sometimes we don’t think of the consequences so of course Joy would do that for Riley.
I think Joy was blinded by her drive to keep Riley happy and she couldn't figure out what positive role Sadness could or would play in Riley's emotional well being... that ism until she was stuck in the Memory Dump and looked at a core memory that she thought was a positive one... which it was, but only after a heartbreaking moment of sadness
Actually think about it like this: you hold the key that will stop the world from falling apart, if the person who caused the world to fall apart joins you the key will be damaged. Who would you save? The key or the person? Joy made a realistic choice based on the knowledge she had, saving what she thaught was more importand in regards to the bigger picture. The problem was that she didnt have all the knowledge to make the right choice, but she gained that knowledge when she got stuck with bing bong
It's not simply the story of Joy realizing that Sadness has a role in Riley's emotional health. It's also the story of gaining emotional maturity and realizing just like Joy did that one memory can attach to _multiple_ emotions, aka. the development of Complex Emotions.
I’m my opinion it’s about growing up. About learning to let go of a part of your life, a younger part. Nostalgia is a huge part of that, and I think that’s what it’s about. That’s what sadness is doing to Riley. Those memories, are no longer happy because she has to acknowledge she’s letting them go. Sure your letting go of a part of life that seemed so full of hope, so purely happy. With little responsibility and the entire world ahead of you. But in return your gaining a whole new part of life opened to you. It took me a long time to get over that fact myself, and seeing this movie at the time really made me feel better.
Exactly! By memories mixing in colors, happy and sad, sad and angry, they’re complex. They’re changing into something beautiful. The emotions were trying to hold onto a time of simplistic, black and white emotions. But growth had to happen where the emotions became a mix of them.
Yes and i almost forgot that riley is a teen not preteen or a kid anymore! And teens emotion always goes upside down just like what happen in her memory core
In 2:55, we can see that Joy finally realized the positive role of Sadness. "Mom and Dad, they came to help because of Sadness" And that's why, she give an authority for Sadness to touch the console in order to get help from Riley's parents. Especially, since Riley is going through depression, she really needs help and empathy from her parents in order to solve her problem
Inside out was actually a very mature film for teenagers. I watched this once when I was 15 but even when I'm 22, sometimes I still have relatable moments to this movie.
I agree it is a very mature movie for teenagers but I remember a long time ago when I was in middle school, the teachers played the movie on stage in the cafeteria and almost All of the 8th grade students wouldn’t watch the film and kept being loud and disruptive so the teachers sent most of the kids outside and me and my friends finally got to watch the rest of the movie without any noise,all of those students missed out on a very good emotional movie imo
I think the problem is that people need to stop assuming that age is the only indicator of maturity. This film is still perfectly good for teenagers, and adults alike.
36 year old grown man coming here because staring at my wedding photos of my wife and I happy together, as we go through divorce today made me think of this movie, and how easily happy memories turn into sad ones😢
@@monmothma3358depression isn't sadness. Depressive people actually become apathetic and angry all the time and life becomes anger just like this movie shows. Also depression makes people more narcissistic.
Something I’ve noticed is that Sadness herself is very intuitive. She does random things that people question but eventually help the situation in a way.
I don't think Joy is selfish. I just think that she is so focused on doing what was best for Riley, that she didn't pay attention to what the other emotions needed. Joy isn't bad, she's just one-sided
Exactly she not selfish. She was just doing her job the only way she knew how. The other emotions made sense to her but sadness was always miserable and it looked like she was just being in the way. Sadness never really tried to explain why she did what she did so nobody got her. It wasn't until Joy saw what sadness brought to Riley that she understood. Joy was just trying to do the right thing the whole time and didn't understand sadness role in life. Sadness by not communicating about the good points in her job just looked like someone who wanted everyone to be miserable.
@@sourgrapes7026hey not every mean well idea is going to work the way we want. Maybe if sadness had explained once in while what she was doing Maybe the others would have gotten but they were trying to what they thought was best just like the parents when they encouraged her to be happy.
@@TheresaHall-vl1bm there's a diff tho, joy didnt think abt how sadness is an impt emotion too. sadness cant say why bcus she's always been the one shunned, so even if she explained her reasonings they wouldnt listen.
I cannot stress this enough: Kids NEED to understand that it is okay to feel sad. It is as vital a life lesson as math or reading comprehension. Pixar is amazing when it comes to their movie list as the list of life lessons we can learn are endless, but this is the one movie above any other one that is most special to me.
I wish those blue blobs responsible for sending memories to the headquarters would stop storing and sending so many anger-related memories to the headquarters of my head.
Inside Out is the greatest animation ever created, and that scene where sadness converts all the core memories blue makes me cry EVERY SINGLE TIME. So many people are so accustomed to hiding their true feeling under a mask out of duty, out of an attempt to be strong for somebody else, etc... but it's OK to be sad. It's OK to cry. Life is not always a Hallmark movie
@@dramadays9026 Hallmark movies are those cheesy Christmas "they all live happily ever after" movies where chemistry is automatic, and nothing ever goes wrong.
Joy is not selfish, she just wants Riley to be happy. We all wanted to be happy but I guess the message of this film is that we shouldn't ignore our sadness to some things because it's our way to seek help. Joy is the most important emotion because it defines who we are. Joy's feeling of not letting sadness in control is probably Riley not wanting to be sad.
Nah, we are NEVER defined by any of our emotions or feelings, positive or negative. They're simply chemical reactions inside our brains that come and go as the winds, and are highly erratic and unpredictable. And ALL emotions are equally important, not just joy, and they only exist to help us survive and experience life. Don't be foolish and attach your identity onto them. One has only grown up when one realizes happiness isn't really that big of a deal, and there is so much more to life than feeling good all the time.
This reminded me so much of my own struggle with depression. I was forced to 'get over it' when my grandfather passed away and it ate at me for seven long years. At 17, I broke when all of the memories of him came flooding back.
Emotions are good for us. Some people feel numb and don’t feel anything. It’s the loneliest feeling so I’d rather cry and be sad sometimes then be numb
Well, I hit rock bottom one day due to extreme sadness and anger put together. Ever since I've felt nothing... It's like... I'm dead inside with no emotions to feel. It's good in a way that I don't feel sad anymore, even happiness anymore. Yeah... Nothing to bother
That little sigh riley lets out after sadness and joy take control is so relatable. You’re sad and all but the comfort of your loved ones makes you feel at ease even though you’re crying
This movie was so important to me as a kid. No one ever wanted me around when I was sad. This scene still makes me cry. I don't really have the words to describe how much that message helped me.
Inside out is probably one of my favorite pixar movies. It teaches so much about how intricate human emotions are, and how important experiencing a multitude of emotions is to a person’s livelihood
I love pixar movies more than disney , pixar movies makes me cry and teach lessons to grow and be you, disney makes me feel like i'm in a fantasy world
That scene where Joy is crying is even sadder in French since in it she says "Je voulais seulement qu elle aime la vie" wich means "I only wanted her to love life" , it just , hits harder
I love that the new core memories show both joy and sadness on it (half yellow, half blue) meaning Riley is capable of more than just one emotion at a time as she's maturing and growing. This movie really has so much more depth to it than people realize. It isn't just a kids movie.
Some people don’t understand that sadness is the only thing that can relief you from your stress and anxiety. What Joy was embodying was toxic positively thinking that if I’m always happy I’ll never get hurt. But that’s the opposite of what it truly is. When you need to cry, don’t hide it because you’ve been told it’s not gonna make you feel better. If you have to cry then cry, no one should be judged for it everyone has different feelings and emotions to certain things.
If this is a representation of how the everyday person is feeling on the inside, then... Aren't we all a Riley? Don't we have a Bing Bong that faded... Isn't he a representation of our childhood that eventually fades when we grow?... I think if that's true, then I grew up too fast.
@@alxandro5504 Riley is representing a young person growing up while going through difficult changes and trying to understand their emotions. Any person who has grown up or been through a difficult change can relate to that
@@alxandro5504 What point are you even trying to make? The movie's entire point is to tell us that sometimes sadness is necessary to understand our emotions and how difficult change is for young people. Riley IN THE MOVIE is representing all the people out there who used to be children and how they felt while growing up. What does her being the director's child have to do with anything? Does that suddenly mean people can't relate to her anymore? Seriously I don't get your point here
Joy doesnt realize there needs to be a balance of all the emotions. That its okay to feel sad or envious or mad. Emotions make us human and not everyday can be a joyful day.
You can even see on Joy's dress that there blue patterns on it and her hair is also blue. This can mean that there is sadness in happiness. e.g tears of joy. I really love how this movie came out!
The whole conflict between Joy and Sadness is a lot deeper than you think. It's not just an argument between friends, it's a representation of people hiding their sadness and pain. We sometimes become so worried about burdening other people with our problems, that we're willing to hold our troubles in, thinking that it's helping us, when really it's hurting us. Joy was so determined to make Riley happy again, that she failed to realize that she was hurting her in the process. It wasn't until Joy realized her mistake, and let Sadness take control, that Riley could finally heal from her pain. We can't heal from our troubles if we don't confront them, and that's something the emotions had to figure out.
The movie is deeper than a lot of people think. People are like "Oh, so Sadness is the most powerful emotion because only she can shift the memory colors." No, she's able to do that only because Riley misses her old home and life. Nostalgia is happy memory gone sad.
Ahh the control console and core memory that was created at the end were both blue and gold because the memory was both sadness and joy - well done Pixar
When i was a teenager, i thought about removing my sadness for good like joy did. It was just after i got out of a highly toxic and abusive friendship and i was still figuring out how to cope with it. In my immature view, sadness was the cause of the pain i was experiencing. I blamed myself for feeling sad, and being unable to just let go. I thought about getting a violent revenge all the time so i felt like i lost my innocence to him. But then, this movie came out, and i realized that it was natural to feel sad. Inside out made me realize that i needed to stop controlling my emotions and let it flow. Just...wanted to share how much this scene meant to me while i was growing up.
@@kitkatbites9223 It took me 3 years to recover...don't rush it or force it because recovering from a mental trauma is not a race. I know you will find your own way to cope with it and find happiness again. so Good luck!
It's okay not to be okay I'm still recovering from toxic friendship and just said goodbye to them last month feels great, but it also feel sad I cut ties with my other toxic friends as well 3 years ago too at that time I feel sad but now I'm happy that I did that. It's okay not to be okay I think sadness makes you appreciate the joy of life and I think we learn because of loneliness too
No, depression is NOT the solution. That is the absence of emotion, as the film shows. Sadness can actually cure a depressive episode, as it brings up emotion the person is otherwise suppressing. This is something I actually learned in therapy.
That’s why Sadness is helpful when you have any worries or troubles because Joy was too focused making Riley happy but sometimes you have to been sad as well especially with helping Riley’s mental health
Such a powerful lesson for parents, listen to your children, feel what they are feeling, empathize, and don’t force them to “feel” a certain way or discredit them for feeling differently than what you want them to “feel”. We don’t control it
It's also like.. At the end of the day this is a metaphor. It's not that Riley is unhappy because one of her ~emotions is acting selfish. It's Riley's personality to always try to be happy which is why Joy is acting the way she does, she's just a representation of the pressure Riley feels.
yea you're right joy's feelings of not wanting sadness in control is actually riley not wanting to be sad. i love joy because even if she knew that sadness was the reason why she waa sucked out of headquarters, she didn't blame her
i love how this shows that as we grow older, our feelings become more complex than *just* feeling happy or *just* feeling sad. sometimes its a mixture of both or more or all sorts of emotions, and from this we can emotionally grow more than the 'basic' feelings :')
Myself, my mam and my sister all saw this movie together back in 2015. When Riley broke down, honestly I was just so quiet and taking it all in, I didn't know what to say. This movie really teaches you about the importance of your emotions and how they impact your mental health. Fair play to Disney and Pixar for making such steps!
23 year old man and this movie makes me cry. it has such a beautful message and I'm glad my neice can understand why it's important to be sad-because it makes all the happy times all the more worth it :,)
Philosophically speaking, like all opposites, pain and pleasure cannot exist one without the other, the existence of each give meaning to the existence of the other.
5:11 is an amazing moment because we have been there. In a moment where we just break down and cry and are just filled with sadness. Then we get comfort in the form of a hug and in that we feel safe, secure, comforted. And that little sigh that you release because you feel safe is just...indescribable.
A movie of pure genius. It took lots of psychological research to do this movie. It touches the ❤️ and moves the soul. It teaches that children sometimes need to let out their emotions. Not everything is joyful for them. They don't get to choose where to live. They have only so much anger they can handle. And need fear to get them to face reality. And disgust is just a normal feeling of things they don't like. I don't know if it won an Academy Award, but it should have gotten some recognition.
It’s really good for kids too. Movies like this and older Disney movies such as Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Snow White, etc have so much more depth to them than newer ones
@@winxwarrior9240 You must be thinking of the Little Mermaid because Cinderella doesn’t change herself at all. Cinderella is about how true beauty is inside, kindness will be rewarded but most of all, that you don’t have to be a superhero to survive hard things. It’s awesome that there are movies with warrior Princesses but we need more movies about emotional maturity. Cinderella is a great example of remaining true to your own morals despite others mistreating you. Our society views kindness as a bad thing. Cinderella was in an abusive situation where she had no way out and it would have been very easy to become discouraged and become bitter or hopeless. Cinderella remained strong despite the harsh mistreatment she received. She stood up for herself and others during the movie even if that looked different than, say, Mulan. When she saw an opportunity to get out, she took it. Cinderella was written right after WWII. People needed a hero that reminded them to stay strong and to remain kind, even to those that it would be easy to hate. I have experienced emotional abuse for years with no way out. Although it took me years to figure out, my natural inclinations towards joy and kindness weren’t something that were bad and in fact what made me strong. It’s very easy to become bitter when people hurt you but choosing to still love is the better choice and Cinderella is a good reflection of that. Many people love me now for the qualities some people tried to crush (That is not to say that you don’t have to put up emotional barriers, endure abuse, or that you shouldn’t cut certain people out of your life)
I have suffered through chronic depression from the mere age of 13 and on. When this love came out, I felt like my emotions when my depression is at an all time high was being portrayed on the screen. I understood fully after this movie that one cannot feel true joy until they have felt true sadness.
I love this movie. It depicts so beautifully what it's like to gain emotional maturity, and shows how emotions become more complex as you grow older, experiencing things like bittersweetness.
I love how the memory that joy and sadness created together looks messy. It's not a perfect half and half look, it's just mushed. And I think it suits the situation. Because all things leading up to that moment *was* messy. Since she's grieving the loss of her old home, it makes sense for her to break down and then be built back up again once she accepted her emotions.
Doesn't work for everyone. Long periods of sadness and frequent crying are some of common symptoms of depression and don't really help to cure it (usually?).
@@empath9814 Your parents are wrong about it. You're allowed to cry as an adult, it's healthy to let out your emotions and stress. But I feel you, my family started treating my crying like an annoyance and like there was something wrong with me when I was a teen, and of course it continued to adulthood. It's not like they're some psychology experts though, so what do they know?
@@empath9814 Agreed. When I cry,my dad just yell "Stop crying!" at me when that makes me sadder. I go to my room,I cried,and I mean ugly cry,not a tantrum cry. I even breath in and breath out to also cure it
0:01 i guess this is why sometimes i feel sad for nothing, or for something just passed - idk why, i just feel sad, even though it's a happy memories, and my face was like "......", well i guess it's is something more like nostalgia, but it's still a kind of sadness when you think back on things having just passed and never returned, but nah, it's not bad, i like nostalgia
Nostalgia is a cruel lie. It makes you pine for a past you never had. It makes you forget what you've accomplished, forget the pain in your past, and imagine a life you did not truly experience, only to taunt you with its inaccessibility. Do not believe the lie it tells you. Do not forget the pain in your past, lest you resent your present, and fear the future. Nostalgia will steal your joy if you let it. Remember the past fondly, but remember also that the past was not perfect, and pain has always been constant, no matter what the cruel mechanisms of your mind might say. Reject the unconscious opium of Nostalgia, it promises only the remembrance of a more perfect past, in exchange for your satisfaction with the present and future.
Back in 2009 I used to nod along with all the KRplus comments saying "Back when music was great. Today's music sucks". Now I just see them as projection.
I think sadness is doing good because Riley can't stay happy forever being happy too long is not good for Health maybe crying sometimes is kinda little good for Health Sadness was doing a great job!
Thing is that no one was there to comfort Joy when she was sad... Had Sadness been down in the Memory Dump she might have been able to give support to Joy... Luckily Joy had that Core Memory and remembered what Sadness said about it.
There’s also the fact her dress is green like disgust’s, which is kind of weird, but if they made it yellow it would probably look like it was part of joy’s skin and not an outfit
I've never watched this movie, as crazy as it may seem, and I never thought I would need to. But watching this scene, this moment, these emotions, it made me realize how similar it is to me. I've moved 7 times in my life, and as a little kid, you don't have the understanding to know whats going on or what to feel. But... on the last two moves, it was tough. Has been tough. We moved to Colorado from Georgia, and I was going into 8th grade, and for a while, life was fine. I made friends, I did well in school, and so on. Then, the new year rolled around and covid hit, and my dad was sent on a deployment to africa for 8 months. Me and my mom were... it wasn't good. We made it through summer fine but when 9th grade began, it fell apart. I felt alone with no good friends, I didn't care about my grades, sports seemed to only make me sadder, and my mom's boss was a prolific a$$hole. She would come home and would see my grades, and get angry and frustrated, and I would cry and curl up into myself. Once my dad came back, we knew we had to move back to Georgia. So in 2021, we did; we moved back and we thought it would be fixed instantly, but it wasn't. I had lost my vigor for school, and its been a long path to back into it. Not to mention, My parents fight more often than they ever have. They always make up and go to bed with the issue solved, but it's hard to see them like that. Yelling and screaming, saying the other doesn't care or understand. I know I've written enough for a KRplus comment, but I hope this helps somebody to realize that we all struggle, and that I will get better, if you TRY.
Goes to show how the saddest of people have the most beautiful of souls. They inhale all your pain and they breathe it out. Thank you the melancholics, without you the world would be a yet more tragic place ❤
From the perspective of someone who lives with depression, this film truly expresses the importance of emotions. Most importantly Sadness and Joy. There are those who show joy but inside feel sadness/emptiness. The message for those who have this condition is that it’s okay to have moments of sadness, feeling the sense of defeat, pressure and the difficulty of life. It’s what makes us human. The most crucial step is to ask for help; by crying or talking. Cry is a form of communication sending signals to others as a call for help. The ones who come around are there to give you hand. Remember you always matter🔆
What I've noticed is that although other emotions have hair/attire of the same colour they are represented with, Joy has got blue hair instead of yellow. This can be a reference to the fact that one can understand Joy in the presence of Sadness. A life full of Joy but no Sadness is a life as dead as a dodo. The very cycle of life continues because of the presence of both Sadness and Joy. Some of us may have spent hours or days or months not feeling happy, but the opposite has never happened. Therefore, in order to feel Joy, Sadness too must be present. And maybe this is what Pixar hinted by Joy's blue hair - the blue which actually denotes melancholy - that in the end Sadness will have to be there to save Riley.
ohhhh I always thought that it was because if she had yellow hair, she would've looked too similar to Tinker Bell. But I like this interpretation a lot. ^^
Now that i'm seeing this again in 2021, I realize this movie is way deeper for the age it's intended for. The implications of details are so meaningful for mental development.
Riley’s emotional journey in San Francisco is one we can learn from by telling our loved ones about our problems in order to find inner peace and happiness
Once again I cried so hard. This movie’s so relatable to me on many points, especially the last part of Riley breaking down, saying that she just wants to go home. This hits home.
Sadness is the perfect character to help anyone, even when she helps Riley get through the changes after moving from Minnesota to San Francisco. To my opinion, Riley has gone through the location grief, first after she move she experienced Denial, but a little bit before Sadness touch her memories of Minnesota during her time and at class. Next when Joy and Sadness were out, she experienced anger thanks to Anger, which might've caused some personality islands to fall. Then in a stage of bargaining, Anger inserts an idea that tells her to run away out of San Francisco back to Minnesota which causes 2 more islands to fall, but thanks to Sadness who remove the idea after she and Joy got back to HQ, the idea was remove that prompt Riley to return back to her parents. With Sadness showing the sad core memories of her life in Minnesota, Riley now has a stage of depression and confess to her parents about missing her life in Minnesota. But to her surprise, her parents too also miss their life in Minnesota as well. With them consoling Riley and with Joy by Sadness side, Riley finally accepts her new life in San Francisco, ending her grief stage thanks to Sadness.
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Since all of the Riley's emotions are in touch with her, Sadness knew from the get-go how to address Riley's feelings after the family moved from Minnesota to SF. Only when Joy realized that she might be stuck in the Memory Dump forever and that one of Riley's Core Memories of happiness stemmed from an event of sadness in which her parents helped Riley through it did she understand Sadness' role
@@sorrowinchrist3387 yeah!
Sorrowful sheep
Have you not seen the movie?
Exactly
This is an important message in the movie: as Psychologists have always stated, being happy all the time is unhealthy. In order to be a functional human being, you need to experience a wide array of emotions. I’m glad this movie focuses on that vital message.
@@joylynch5204 Exactly... Joy wanted to go up, but Riley's emotional instability was causing the "earthquake" that caused the tube to break and send Joy into the Memory Dump with Bing Bong
If you think about it, nostalgia is a combined feeling of Joy and sadness, a bittersweet feeling.
Missing the good ole days but being happy that they happened.
I loved the portrayal of nostalgia at the end of the movie, happy memories turned into sad memories and Joy and Sadness working together.
Yes, when I grew up, I realized how touching it is to see joy combined with sadness.
I really hope that becomes a thing in Inside Out 2.
It's basically happy memories tinted with sadness. When Sadness touched Joy's core memories, they became nostalgic ones.
Joy “Sadness, stop! You’re hurting Riley. Riley needs to be happy.”
Joy came to understand that crying helps people feel better
Yeah, its not bad to cry. Its good you let it out and feel bette
Like with bing-bong.
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Joy has emotions too
You learn empathy, sympathy, mourning, and pain killer, sadness is healing emotion
All emotions are important
Joy - optimistic vision
Fear - survival instincts
Disgust - rational sometimes cynical thinking
Anger - strong desire for justice
Sadness - compassion
I once saw a video that explained that sadness influenced in the creation of society due to compassion
The past doesn't define the present. The present defines the past. It's impossible for Riley to move forward if she doesn't acknowledge that she has been hurt, has suffered a loss, so she can then chart out a way forward.
Fear keeps her safe, but it doesn't solve anything. Disgust keeps her comfortable, but she needs to embrace uncertainty. She's not strong enough to use Anger to solve her problems. And having Joy about things that aren't actually there is just lying to herself.
No wonder she became depressed. If she doesn't use sadness having those emotions were just a waste of time.
I love how the parents have different emotions in charge. For her dad it is anger, though anger in her dad's case is not about being angry but about being confident, assertive and moving forward. For her mom it is sadness, but like the dad compassion and empathy are what she represents.
Don’t forget about empathy. Sadness is connected to that as well
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Joy is the perfect embodiment of "toxic positivity." When we all think being happy about a bad situation can somehow make us feel "better," in reality it's just bliss. It's a means of being distracted and dismissing your negative thoughts. People need to acknowledge this. It's OK to be sad.
Well yeah, there is a legit mental imbalance if you're happy all the time. Different emotions just hit normally and you deal with them as they come.
@@SamtheBravesFan yeah, being sad is like the acceptance of something u can't deal with, thats why u feel weak. While being happy on the other hand feels like a distraction to me.
I know right and I learn something while watching this film...again as an adult
My mom is a perfect example of it as well. She acts like Joy whenever me or my sister express our feelings to her.
I agree but christ, the word "toxic" is overused
Rewatching Inside Out now that you're an adult hits harder.
Don't a lot of movies hit harder when you're older?
@@FarrahKeks yeah maybe cause you understand it more? with experience?
Ikr!!!
I was 14 when I first watched it. A movie had never fucked with my head so much
@@XiaLater some movies also came out not as good as I used to remember them.
I just noticed that Riley starts out wearing a yellow jacket to school on her first day, signifying that Joy was in control at the start of that day. But on the day that she runs away, she's wearing a black jacket, and the control panel was going black too. It signified that she was out of touch with her emotions until Sadness came to fix it.
All these wonderful notes for close viewing 😂😂😂
I think it represented depression. She felt nothing cause two of her emotions were missing.
@@Xxsorafan Yea
The “out of touch with her emotions” part is me. I’ve been that way for four years, by confusion, sourness, pessimistic, and cynical. All because of something so little like false appearances. I’ve been struggling to cry, watching dramatic movies and shows, listening to emotional music, playing dramatic games, reading dramatic stories.
English teacher moment, but a good moment
Now that I’m older, I realize that the panel turning black was a metaphor for depression.
Anger, Disgust, and Fear being unable to free the panel from the darkness consuming it shows how depression consumes you completely, before proceeding to immobilize you.
Of course, depression isn’t something that can just be removed instantaneously like the bulb by Sadness, but the way this movie shows depression nullifying control over your own life is amazing.
Actually…. Depression occurs when our emotions are suppressed. So technically this is how it works .
This is because Riley was still starting to develop depression so it is easier to reverse, it is a shame that most people don't realize that they or someone they know is starting to develop depression.
I imagine all the islands in my mind would be blacked out, except for family… my family is the only thing keeping me going.
Another detail you can see (but you have to be very observant about it) is Riley’s eyes turning more and more gray the closer she gets to boarding the bus leaving for Minnesota. Once Riley sat down in her seat with her eyes being completely gray, losing those beautiful blue sparks that were there before, that’s when both the audience AND the emotions realize depression had taken full control over the console.
The “sky” inside Riley’s mind also starts to turn more and more gray after the collapse of Honestly Island forces her to lose her train of thought, but that’s a more obvious detail you notice throughout the final act of the movie.
When that happens they can’t make her feel anything anymore, Also sadness is so important.
Joy seeks happiness
Sadness seeks empathy
Fear seeks safety
Anger seeks justice
Disgust seeks comfort
Hmmm … I agree except disgust-I think she seeks to avoid what is unpleasant (can’t think of a way to express that in one word).
@@vinista256comfort works best for this
Comfort or cleanliness because once you see something not dirty or messy,literally or in mind you feel comfortable
@@vinista2565:00 and 5:03 plus 4:35 eight since 2015 and still a good one (26,000 years still a good one). Right?
And they would nada with eachother
The film makers at first wanted Fear and Joy getting lost, but it makes more sense for Joy and Sadness because they're opposites
during the film u realize that their not actually opposites. we just think they are
@@TheGoodWitchDiya they're opposites, lovers and haters, perfect halves, yin and yang
(Meaning they are *both* opposites and the same)
@@royalheadquarters8449 exactly
@@royalheadquarters8449 The opposite of love is not hate but indifference. If you hate something you have to care about a part of that.
Like animal abuse. We love animals, so we hate the abuse thereof. If we were indifferent we wouldn't get angry.
@@HexenkoeniginVonAngmar it is a phrase. "Lovers and haters" is just something that is quoted a lot.
Also I never said lovers and haters are opposites. I said;
Joy and sadness are;
- opposites
- but they're also lovers and haters (with lovers and haters nót referring to opposites)
- and they're also perfect halves
- and they're also yin and yang
1:13 I love that the destruction causes a bunch of long term memories to fall into the dump, because Riley’s going through depression and depression can really kill your memory
I did not know depression kills memory. Explains a lot. Thank you
i had a hard time understanding this movie as a kid, never knew that this could explain depression so well.
Very true! I feel like I have forgotten my past and the things that make me feel proud of myself whenever I had depression. I'll probably never get them back. But it's okay. It was worth it. Beating depression was worth it.
@@AP-ex6qz we don't know each other, but good for you for beating it! 🖤
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One thing nobody ever mentions: sadness is the only one that can take the running away idea from Riley's head is because her secondary feeling is regret. You only give up on things you regret.
Sadness taking control of Riley's future is so incredibly powerful. All of this started because Riley felt sad about how she left her life behind in Minnesota, but all the other emotions, particularly Joy, did everything they could except accepting their sadness. They tried to run, avoid, and fill it with other emotions, but every single one of them failed. It cured because Sadness came and gave Riley the most powerful cure, to accept and move on. Being sad is not being weak, being sad is accepting things for how they are. Running from sadness in pursuit of happiness and other emotions may sound like the right solution, but that is just that, running; sadness will never go away unless you truly accept the magnitude of it and what is happening in your life. Joy's antic is comparable to a dam. Holding back the water that just keeps coming and is unavoidable, which is Riley's sadness, behind a dam of Joy, will only pile things up. Sadness gave Riley and Joy the greatest gift of all, acceptance. She released the dam that clogged Riley's life. So powerful.
I love how you stated this. Thank you
Beautifully said 👏🏽💯
Yeah they honestly meant Well but they didn't get why sadness was important and sadness didn't really do anything but act mopy most of the time and didn't explain her actions and the other emotions trusted Joy maybe because she was the oldest of the group. Joy because she couldn't see a reason for unhappy memories and thought sadness was nothing but trouble for them tried to get rid of her but came to understand why sadness was important. Joy wasn't trying to selfish anymore than the parents who were encouraging her to be happy. They both meant no harm they just realize.
Great lesson. Thank you! 🙏
I like how you used dam as an example for this💯
Joy was incredibly selfish when she abandoned Sadness and that’s so realistic it hurts, we would do anything to be happy and sometimes we don’t think of the consequences so of course Joy would do that for Riley.
I think Joy was blinded by her drive to keep Riley happy and she couldn't figure out what positive role Sadness could or would play in Riley's emotional well being... that ism until she was stuck in the Memory Dump and looked at a core memory that she thought was a positive one... which it was, but only after a heartbreaking moment of sadness
It's like trying trying to put a bandaid on every solution
It's like us though when we're sad we try to be happy but we cant
Actually think about it like this: you hold the key that will stop the world from falling apart, if the person who caused the world to fall apart joins you the key will be damaged. Who would you save? The key or the person? Joy made a realistic choice based on the knowledge she had, saving what she thaught was more importand in regards to the bigger picture. The problem was that she didnt have all the knowledge to make the right choice, but she gained that knowledge when she got stuck with bing bong
I think it's cool that it kinda says that when we try to abandon sadness or ignore it, it can lead to joy almost being lost.
It's not simply the story of Joy realizing that Sadness has a role in Riley's emotional health. It's also the story of gaining emotional maturity and realizing just like Joy did that one memory can attach to _multiple_ emotions, aka. the development of Complex Emotions.
I’m my opinion it’s about growing up. About learning to let go of a part of your life, a younger part. Nostalgia is a huge part of that, and I think that’s what it’s about. That’s what sadness is doing to Riley. Those memories, are no longer happy because she has to acknowledge she’s letting them go. Sure your letting go of a part of life that seemed so full of hope, so purely happy. With little responsibility and the entire world ahead of you. But in return your gaining a whole new part of life opened to you. It took me a long time to get over that fact myself, and seeing this movie at the time really made me feel better.
Exactly! By memories mixing in colors, happy and sad, sad and angry, they’re complex. They’re changing into something beautiful. The emotions were trying to hold onto a time of simplistic, black and white emotions. But growth had to happen where the emotions became a mix of them.
Yes 🙌🏾
Yes and i almost forgot that riley is a teen not preteen or a kid anymore! And teens emotion always goes upside down just like what happen in her memory core
@@zul6227 no she was a preteen
In 2:55, we can see that Joy finally realized the positive role of Sadness.
"Mom and Dad, they came to help because of Sadness"
And that's why, she give an authority for Sadness to touch the console in order to get help from Riley's parents. Especially, since Riley is going through depression, she really needs help and empathy from her parents in order to solve her problem
And can also make us realize that sadness can make us better.
Alegría could understand that sadness also seeks the best for Riley, it's just that they both work in different ways.
She wasnt depressed
Inside out was actually a very mature film for teenagers. I watched this once when I was 15 but even when I'm 22, sometimes I still have relatable moments to this movie.
I agree it is a very mature movie for teenagers but I remember a long time ago when I was in middle school, the teachers played the movie on stage in the cafeteria and almost All of the 8th grade students wouldn’t watch the film and kept being loud and disruptive so the teachers sent most of the kids outside and me and my friends finally got to watch the rest of the movie without any noise,all of those students missed out on a very good emotional movie imo
I think the problem is that people need to stop assuming that age is the only indicator of maturity. This film is still perfectly good for teenagers, and adults alike.
36 year old grown man coming here because staring at my wedding photos of my wife and I happy together, as we go through divorce today made me think of this movie, and how easily happy memories turn into sad ones😢
@@seanmiller2644 That's so sad to hear. I'm sending you a big hug, buddy.
I love the message of this movie. Sadness isn't just crying. It's the emotion of change, acceptance and most importantly - love.
Beautifully said!
I wouldn't say that sadness IS those things, but it processes and facilitates those things. (Adaptive sadness aka grieving, not depressive sadness.)
Love is not sadness...
Love is not a single emotion...
Love is a combination of everything.
Wtf. You missed the point lol.
Sadness involves nostalgia, meditation, compassion, caring and many important things
@@monmothma3358depression isn't sadness. Depressive people actually become apathetic and angry all the time and life becomes anger just like this movie shows. Also depression makes people more narcissistic.
Whoever did the voice for Sadness did a great job... so mopey, so lacking confidence but self-assured in the role nonetheless
Phyllis Smith-Voice Actor Of Sadness
Omg do you not watch the Office?
She looks like Sadness too
@@b2kzangelalwayz nah I just watch cartoons frfr
ZOMツ TM I didn’t ask you.
Something I’ve noticed is that Sadness herself is very intuitive. She does random things that people question but eventually help the situation in a way.
I don't think Joy is selfish. I just think that she is so focused on doing what was best for Riley, that she didn't pay attention to what the other emotions needed. Joy isn't bad, she's just one-sided
Exactly she not selfish. She was just doing her job the only way she knew how. The other emotions made sense to her but sadness was always miserable and it looked like she was just being in the way. Sadness never really tried to explain why she did what she did so nobody got her. It wasn't until Joy saw what sadness brought to Riley that she understood. Joy was just trying to do the right thing the whole time and didn't understand sadness role in life. Sadness by not communicating about the good points in her job just looked like someone who wanted everyone to be miserable.
@@theresahall3912well its pretty clear that sadness also doesnt really know what she is doing. She just does
@@theresahall3912isnt that being selfish. what u think is right doesnt mean it is right
@@sourgrapes7026hey not every mean well idea is going to work the way we want. Maybe if sadness had explained once in while what she was doing Maybe the others would have gotten but they were trying to what they thought was best just like the parents when they encouraged her to be happy.
@@TheresaHall-vl1bm there's a diff tho, joy didnt think abt how sadness is an impt emotion too. sadness cant say why bcus she's always been the one shunned, so even if she explained her reasonings they wouldnt listen.
Even joy herself was sad and crying
@Victoria Diaz-Montes that’s because she’s joy not sadness
@@brodie2005thegamer for you but for us....its not
She has her own emotions running the show in her brain. An infinite regression of emotions.
@@LucysFandoms I never said that joy couldn’t be sad I just said she wasn’t really sad in most scenes because she’s Joy
@@strangereactions6 Oh sorry, I was just kinda pissed off before.
This show really shows that without sadness, you're just numb...
I cannot stress this enough: Kids NEED to understand that it is okay to feel sad. It is as vital a life lesson as math or reading comprehension. Pixar is amazing when it comes to their movie list as the list of life lessons we can learn are endless, but this is the one movie above any other one that is most special to me.
Honestly, adults need to understand that too.
I wish the people in my head would throw out all the fear core memories to fix my crippling anxiety.
A therapist helped me
I want angry memories out of my head so that I don't have a terrible temper anymore.
you need fear too to survive.
I wish those blue blobs responsible for sending memories to the headquarters would stop storing and sending so many anger-related memories to the headquarters of my head.
HW GF SHhsh
Inside Out is the greatest animation ever created, and that scene where sadness converts all the core memories blue makes me cry EVERY SINGLE TIME. So many people are so accustomed to hiding their true feeling under a mask out of duty, out of an attempt to be strong for somebody else, etc... but it's OK to be sad. It's OK to cry. Life is not always a Hallmark movie
Lol a hallmark movie XD don’t even know wtf that is 😂
@@dramadays9026 Hallmark movies are those cheesy Christmas "they all live happily ever after" movies where chemistry is automatic, and nothing ever goes wrong.
@@ikeacha4153 ah thank you
I don’t cry at it, though I know it’s sad
I dunno mate. Up is pretty much up there, pun intended.
Joy is not selfish, she just wants Riley to be happy. We all wanted to be happy but I guess the message of this film is that we shouldn't ignore our sadness to some things because it's our way to seek help. Joy is the most important emotion because it defines who we are. Joy's feeling of not letting sadness in control is probably Riley not wanting to be sad.
Nah, we are NEVER defined by any of our emotions or feelings, positive or negative. They're simply chemical reactions inside our brains that come and go as the winds, and are highly erratic and unpredictable.
And ALL emotions are equally important, not just joy, and they only exist to help us survive and experience life. Don't be foolish and attach your identity onto them.
One has only grown up when one realizes happiness isn't really that big of a deal, and there is so much more to life than feeling good all the time.
She is selfish
This reminded me so much of my own struggle with depression. I was forced to 'get over it' when my grandfather passed away and it ate at me for seven long years. At 17, I broke when all of the memories of him came flooding back.
Emotions are good for us. Some people feel numb and don’t feel anything. It’s the loneliest feeling so I’d rather cry and be sad sometimes then be numb
Me too :)
I remember a time when I hated my emotions and wished I could feel nothing... But I'm glad I have emotions, they are all important.
If you don't have any feeling then how can you feel about being lonely? Isn't contradicting?
It sucks but you can't really have true happiness without true sadness :(
Well, I hit rock bottom one day due to extreme sadness and anger put together. Ever since I've felt nothing... It's like... I'm dead inside with no emotions to feel.
It's good in a way that I don't feel sad anymore, even happiness anymore.
Yeah... Nothing to bother
That little sigh riley lets out after sadness and joy take control is so relatable. You’re sad and all but the comfort of your loved ones makes you feel at ease even though you’re crying
I looked at it as sense of relief after letting out ur true emotions
@@fovos7359 That’s a better way to describe it
What comfort? Lol but no on a serious note, it is very relatable and it feels like a weight being lifted that held you down for so long.
That's my favorite part of the movie. The animation on it is well executed. We all know what it is.
Catharsis.
That was a sigh of catharsis. 😊
This movie was so important to me as a kid. No one ever wanted me around when I was sad. This scene still makes me cry. I don't really have the words to describe how much that message helped me.
Inside out is probably one of my favorite pixar movies. It teaches so much about how intricate human emotions are, and how important experiencing a multitude of emotions is to a person’s livelihood
God, still makes me tear up.
Disney may be losing their mind, but Pixar’s still got it 😭
Not really. This film came out years ago and Pixar hasn’t made anything that great since.
@@michaeljenner2325 have you watch soul??
@@michaeljenner2325 Um...Coco? Luca? Soul? Toy Story 4? What do you mean haven't made anything great since?
Lol😂.. I despise disney with what they did to marvel, star wars..but pixar is always great😊
I love pixar movies more than disney , pixar movies makes me cry and teach lessons to grow and be you, disney makes me feel like i'm in a fantasy world
That scene where Joy is crying is even sadder in French since in it she says "Je voulais seulement qu elle aime la vie" wich means "I only wanted her to love life" , it just , hits harder
oh my god😭
You literally making me cry wtf
The French version hits harder
She didn’t even speak
I love that the new core memories show both joy and sadness on it (half yellow, half blue) meaning Riley is capable of more than just one emotion at a time as she's maturing and growing. This movie really has so much more depth to it than people realize. It isn't just a kids movie.
Some people don’t understand that sadness is the only thing that can relief you from your stress and anxiety. What Joy was embodying was toxic positively thinking that if I’m always happy I’ll never get hurt. But that’s the opposite of what it truly is. When you need to cry, don’t hide it because you’ve been told it’s not gonna make you feel better. If you have to cry then cry, no one should be judged for it everyone has different feelings and emotions to certain things.
A bit off topic but am I the only one who can't stand how cute sadness is? Like look at those tiny arms.
Yes she cute
Yeahhhhhh she’s so adorable, I want to hug her so bad
She cute chubby and her sweater and that haircut makes her look unique
Blue bun!!
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If this is a representation of how the everyday person is feeling on the inside, then... Aren't we all a Riley? Don't we have a Bing Bong that faded... Isn't he a representation of our childhood that eventually fades when we grow?... I think if that's true, then I grew up too fast.
um no riley isn’t supposed to represent everyone
@@alxandro5504 Riley is representing a young person growing up while going through difficult changes and trying to understand their emotions. Any person who has grown up or been through a difficult change can relate to that
@@bazzxliner um no riley is just a child of the director of the movie
@@alxandro5504 What point are you even trying to make? The movie's entire point is to tell us that sometimes sadness is necessary to understand our emotions and how difficult change is for young people. Riley IN THE MOVIE is representing all the people out there who used to be children and how they felt while growing up. What does her being the director's child have to do with anything? Does that suddenly mean people can't relate to her anymore? Seriously I don't get your point here
@@bazzxliner im not reading that
Joy doesnt realize there needs to be a balance of all the emotions. That its okay to feel sad or envious or mad. Emotions make us human and not everyday can be a joyful day.
You can even see on Joy's dress that there blue patterns on it and her hair is also blue. This can mean that there is sadness in happiness. e.g tears of joy. I really love how this movie came out!
The whole conflict between Joy and Sadness is a lot deeper than you think. It's not just an argument between friends, it's a representation of people hiding their sadness and pain.
We sometimes become so worried about burdening other people with our problems, that we're willing to hold our troubles in, thinking that it's helping us, when really it's hurting us.
Joy was so determined to make Riley happy again, that she failed to realize that she was hurting her in the process.
It wasn't until Joy realized her mistake, and let Sadness take control, that Riley could finally heal from her pain.
We can't heal from our troubles if we don't confront them, and that's something the emotions had to figure out.
The movie is deeper than a lot of people think. People are like "Oh, so Sadness is the most powerful emotion because only she can shift the memory colors." No, she's able to do that only because Riley misses her old home and life. Nostalgia is happy memory gone sad.
Agreed and it shows the internal struggle of trying to control our emotions.
Ahh the control console and core memory that was created at the end were both blue and gold because the memory was both sadness and joy - well done Pixar
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Bittersweet
It’s signifying her growing up. Emotions are more complicated now
The fact that the litteral joy character is crying is proof that sadness is important too
Fun fact: Joy was the only emotion who exprerienced sadness.
No she wasn’t
When i was a teenager, i thought about removing my sadness for good like joy did. It was just after i got out of a highly toxic and abusive friendship and i was still figuring out how to cope with it. In my immature view, sadness was the cause of the pain i was experiencing. I blamed myself for feeling sad, and being unable to just let go. I thought about getting a violent revenge all the time so i felt like i lost my innocence to him. But then, this movie came out, and i realized that it was natural to feel sad. Inside out made me realize that i needed to stop controlling my emotions and let it flow. Just...wanted to share how much this scene meant to me while i was growing up.
I relate a lot to this but it was a romantic relationship and even after months I’m still trying to find a way to keep going
@@kitkatbites9223 It took me 3 years to recover...don't rush it or force it because recovering from a mental trauma is not a race. I know you will find your own way to cope with it and find happiness again. so Good luck!
@@pepcarboxylase3802 wow honestly thank you i appreciate it!
It's okay not to be okay I'm still recovering from toxic friendship and just said goodbye to them last month feels great, but it also feel sad I cut ties with my other toxic friends as well 3 years ago too at that time I feel sad but now I'm happy that I did that. It's okay not to be okay I think sadness makes you appreciate the joy of life and I think we learn because of loneliness too
We cannot be happy on everything. We need to cry, be depress and feel a sense of longing to realize our mistakes and cut the ties of our past.
No, depression is NOT the solution. That is the absence of emotion, as the film shows.
Sadness can actually cure a depressive episode, as it brings up emotion the person is otherwise suppressing. This is something I actually learned in therapy.
That’s why Sadness is helpful when you have any worries or troubles because Joy was too focused making Riley happy but sometimes you have to been sad as well especially with helping Riley’s mental health
We can't ever know true happiness without knowing sadness.
Such a powerful lesson for parents, listen to your children, feel what they are feeling, empathize, and don’t force them to “feel” a certain way or discredit them for feeling differently than what you want them to “feel”. We don’t control it
There are so many details that we missed watching this movie
R8
True
Lmao why y'all hate joy it's literally her job to make Riley happy and at the end she finally realised how important sadness is
That is so true, she did understand why sadness was important in Rylies life!
It's also like.. At the end of the day this is a metaphor. It's not that Riley is unhappy because one of her ~emotions is acting selfish. It's Riley's personality to always try to be happy which is why Joy is acting the way she does, she's just a representation of the pressure Riley feels.
Yea but she doesn’t understand why Sadness is so important
yea you're right joy's feelings of not wanting sadness in control is actually riley not wanting to be sad. i love joy because even if she knew that sadness was the reason why she waa sucked out of headquarters, she didn't blame her
@@Im_alivexx She literally does by the end of the movie
I watched this movie as a teen after having transferred schools and lemme tell you, the last scene hit so hard I bawled my eyes out
Sameee
I watched it in my Psychology class
Seeing Riley cry, on 4:28 to the end made me cry too when I saw the film the 1st time in theaters!
i love how this shows that as we grow older, our feelings become more complex than *just* feeling happy or *just* feeling sad. sometimes its a mixture of both or more or all sorts of emotions, and from this we can emotionally grow more than the 'basic' feelings :')
Myself, my mam and my sister all saw this movie together back in 2015. When Riley broke down, honestly I was just so quiet and taking it all in, I didn't know what to say. This movie really teaches you about the importance of your emotions and how they impact your mental health. Fair play to Disney and Pixar for making such steps!
Pixar really had the writing down to a tee with this movie. It's not just heartfelt. It's truly inspiring and healing.
23 year old man and this movie makes me cry. it has such a beautful message and I'm glad my neice can understand why it's important to be sad-because it makes all the happy times all the more worth it :,)
We often forget no matter how old we grow, we are still very kids, we are just learning. Don't let age ruin that to you and much love to youu
Philosophically speaking, like all opposites, pain and pleasure cannot exist one without the other, the existence of each give meaning to the existence of the other.
5:11 is an amazing moment because we have been there. In a moment where we just break down and cry and are just filled with sadness. Then we get comfort in the form of a hug and in that we feel safe, secure, comforted. And that little sigh that you release because you feel safe is just...indescribable.
Must be nice😭💀
You are lucky. A lot of people don’t have that. We haven’t all been there
A movie of pure genius. It took lots of psychological research to do this movie. It touches the ❤️ and moves the soul. It teaches that children sometimes need to let out their emotions. Not everything is joyful for them. They don't get to choose where to live. They have only so much anger they can handle. And need fear to get them to face reality. And disgust is just a normal feeling of things they don't like. I don't know if it won an Academy Award, but it should have gotten some recognition.
I like how Joy learned that Riley doesn’t have to be happy all the time! And sometimes, she might need Sadness.
Sadness was the 'refresh' button that Riley needed after getting all her emotions mixed up
I love how they portrayed that it's fine to have mixed feelings. This movie is too intense ❤
pixar doesn't make good films anymore
This is absolutely brilliant. By far the most profound animated film I’ve ever seen. It’s more sophisticated than most adult movies
This movie goes much much deeper than we think.
Too bad more movies can't be this complex - adults I'm sure appreciated it
It’s really good for kids too. Movies like this and older Disney movies such as Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Snow White, etc have so much more depth to them than newer ones
@@hayleymarse2853 Isn’t Cinderella about changing yourself for love and affection tho, I’m not sure if that’s really a good message
@@winxwarrior9240 You must be thinking of the Little Mermaid because Cinderella doesn’t change herself at all. Cinderella is about how true beauty is inside, kindness will be rewarded but most of all, that you don’t have to be a superhero to survive hard things. It’s awesome that there are movies with warrior Princesses but we need more movies about emotional maturity. Cinderella is a great example of remaining true to your own morals despite others mistreating you. Our society views kindness as a bad thing. Cinderella was in an abusive situation where she had no way out and it would have been very easy to become discouraged and become bitter or hopeless. Cinderella remained strong despite the harsh mistreatment she received. She stood up for herself and others during the movie even if that looked different than, say, Mulan. When she saw an opportunity to get out, she took it. Cinderella was written right after WWII. People needed a hero that reminded them to stay strong and to remain kind, even to those that it would be easy to hate.
I have experienced emotional abuse for years with no way out. Although it took me years to figure out, my natural inclinations towards joy and kindness weren’t something that were bad and in fact what made me strong. It’s very easy to become bitter when people hurt you but choosing to still love is the better choice and Cinderella is a good reflection of that. Many people love me now for the qualities some people tried to crush
(That is not to say that you don’t have to put up emotional barriers, endure abuse, or that you shouldn’t cut certain people out of your life)
@@hayleymarse2853 Zootopia had some depth to it and made some good points.
@@michaeljenner2325 agreed. It was a movie I enjoyed
Literally takes only 5 minutes and 50 seconds for Pixar to reduce me to tears. What an amazing studio
I have suffered through chronic depression from the mere age of 13 and on. When this love came out, I felt like my emotions when my depression is at an all time high was being portrayed on the screen. I understood fully after this movie that one cannot feel true joy until they have felt true sadness.
This movie is a masterpiece. I actually searched for this scene just for the sole purpose of crying, cause I feel like I need it right now.
Yes - memory can be remembered currently as sad and one can be sad and remember a happy moment - Inside Out was great
Ahhh - Sadness - life can't always be roses Joy!
_Say you'll never let me go!_
I love this movie. It depicts so beautifully what it's like to gain emotional maturity, and shows how emotions become more complex as you grow older, experiencing things like bittersweetness.
Rewatching these scenes now that i’m older I actually feel genuine sadness now that I understand everything.
I love how the memory that joy and sadness created together looks messy. It's not a perfect half and half look, it's just mushed. And I think it suits the situation. Because all things leading up to that moment *was* messy. Since she's grieving the loss of her old home, it makes sense for her to break down and then be built back up again once she accepted her emotions.
The only cure for depression is sadness every time you cry it's your body trying to heal you .
I can only cry when I discuss my problems with someone I trust. Now I know why
Yeah my parents tell me I shouldn't be crying as an adult. I wish crying was more acceptable in society not just for kids.
Doesn't work for everyone. Long periods of sadness and frequent crying are some of common symptoms of depression and don't really help to cure it (usually?).
@@empath9814 Your parents are wrong about it. You're allowed to cry as an adult, it's healthy to let out your emotions and stress. But I feel you, my family started treating my crying like an annoyance and like there was something wrong with me when I was a teen, and of course it continued to adulthood. It's not like they're some psychology experts though, so what do they know?
@@empath9814 Agreed. When I cry,my dad just yell "Stop crying!" at me when that makes me sadder. I go to my room,I cried,and I mean ugly cry,not a tantrum cry. I even breath in and breath out to also cure it
0:01 i guess this is why sometimes i feel sad for nothing, or for something just passed - idk why, i just feel sad, even though it's a happy memories, and my face was like "......", well i guess it's is something more like nostalgia, but it's still a kind of sadness when you think back on things having just passed and never returned, but nah, it's not bad, i like nostalgia
Sadness is the emotional memory that bonds to our close people that ultimately leads to Joy. This movie is must for everyone to watch 👍
Nostalgia is a cruel lie. It makes you pine for a past you never had. It makes you forget what you've accomplished, forget the pain in your past, and imagine a life you did not truly experience, only to taunt you with its inaccessibility. Do not believe the lie it tells you. Do not forget the pain in your past, lest you resent your present, and fear the future. Nostalgia will steal your joy if you let it. Remember the past fondly, but remember also that the past was not perfect, and pain has always been constant, no matter what the cruel mechanisms of your mind might say. Reject the unconscious opium of Nostalgia, it promises only the remembrance of a more perfect past, in exchange for your satisfaction with the present and future.
Back in 2009 I used to nod along with all the KRplus comments saying "Back when music was great. Today's music sucks". Now I just see them as projection.
I love my past a lot. But i wont ignore my present and future for it.
I think sadness is doing good because Riley can't stay happy forever being happy too long is not good for Health maybe crying sometimes is kinda little good for Health Sadness was doing a great job!
Well.. if you can be happy for a long time it's not bad. It's just that when you are not truly happy, you should not act as if you are, tháts bad.
It’s just that if you are always happy people will never know to help you when u need it most
what i learned from the film is that its healthy to be in touch with all out emotions, even the ones we thought are "negative" like sadness.
2:41 See joy, Sadness has to make Riley sad sometimes
Thing is that no one was there to comfort Joy when she was sad... Had Sadness been down in the Memory Dump she might have been able to give support to Joy... Luckily Joy had that Core Memory and remembered what Sadness said about it.
I would've been there for her... :'(
Bing Bong: Am I a joke to you?
@@disneyparksstarwarslover7638 more like: baby I’m not here,I’m just an hallucination
Did Joy ever think "hey why is my hair blue like sadness's?"
There’s also the fact her dress is green like disgust’s, which is kind of weird, but if they made it yellow it would probably look like it was part of joy’s skin and not an outfit
I've never watched this movie, as crazy as it may seem, and I never thought I would need to. But watching this scene, this moment, these emotions, it made me realize how similar it is to me. I've moved 7 times in my life, and as a little kid, you don't have the understanding to know whats going on or what to feel. But... on the last two moves, it was tough. Has been tough. We moved to Colorado from Georgia, and I was going into 8th grade, and for a while, life was fine. I made friends, I did well in school, and so on. Then, the new year rolled around and covid hit, and my dad was sent on a deployment to africa for 8 months. Me and my mom were... it wasn't good. We made it through summer fine but when 9th grade began, it fell apart. I felt alone with no good friends, I didn't care about my grades, sports seemed to only make me sadder, and my mom's boss was a prolific a$$hole. She would come home and would see my grades, and get angry and frustrated, and I would cry and curl up into myself. Once my dad came back, we knew we had to move back to Georgia. So in 2021, we did; we moved back and we thought it would be fixed instantly, but it wasn't. I had lost my vigor for school, and its been a long path to back into it. Not to mention, My parents fight more often than they ever have. They always make up and go to bed with the issue solved, but it's hard to see them like that. Yelling and screaming, saying the other doesn't care or understand. I know I've written enough for a KRplus comment, but I hope this helps somebody to realize that we all struggle, and that I will get better, if you TRY.
How are y'all doing now?
3 years of depression is eating me up. Since my mother died all the happy memories that I've got with her just brings tears into my eyes 🥺
I know she Loves u and I hope u realize how much she wants u to keep going
Im coming back here after years.
Joy really wanted riley to be happy. People like joy needs a lot of hugs and some comfort.
Just this clip alone made me cry. Damm, what a good movie.
Goes to show how the saddest of people have the most beautiful of souls. They inhale all your pain and they breathe it out. Thank you the melancholics, without you the world would be a yet more tragic place ❤
From the perspective of someone who lives with depression, this film truly expresses the importance of emotions. Most importantly Sadness and Joy. There are those who show joy but inside feel sadness/emptiness.
The message for those who have this condition is that it’s okay to have moments of sadness, feeling the sense of defeat, pressure and the difficulty of life. It’s what makes us human.
The most crucial step is to ask for help; by crying or talking.
Cry is a form of communication sending signals to others as a call for help.
The ones who come around are there to give you hand.
Remember you always matter🔆
this made me cry in just 5 mins.. 😭
Sadness is my favorite character💙💙💙💙💙 omg she’s such an empath.
Truth
@@ElsaAnnaArendelle Right tho?! 🥰💙
A once happy memory will stay to become a sentimental value. Core memories.
Im already about to ball my eyes out after 3:05. This is really a hard movie for me to rewatch 😅
What I've noticed is that although other emotions have hair/attire of the same colour they are represented with, Joy has got blue hair instead of yellow. This can be a reference to the fact that one can understand Joy in the presence of Sadness. A life full of Joy but no Sadness is a life as dead as a dodo. The very cycle of life continues because of the presence of both Sadness and Joy. Some of us may have spent hours or days or months not feeling happy, but the opposite has never happened. Therefore, in order to feel Joy, Sadness too must be present.
And maybe this is what Pixar hinted by Joy's blue hair - the blue which actually denotes melancholy - that in the end Sadness will have to be there to save Riley.
ohhhh I always thought that it was because if she had yellow hair, she would've looked too similar to Tinker Bell. But I like this interpretation a lot. ^^
This movie is like diving in deep water,
so deep and meaningful ❤️
Now that i'm seeing this again in 2021, I realize this movie is way deeper for the age it's intended for. The implications of details are so meaningful for mental development.
2:24 and now she understands why sadness is part of being mentally healthy.....
Riley’s emotional journey in San Francisco is one we can learn from by telling our loved ones about our problems in order to find inner peace and happiness
I literally cried. This is so relatable.
3:12 this up to you sadness and you alone....... Riley needs you.
Once again I cried so hard. This movie’s so relatable to me on many points, especially the last part of Riley breaking down, saying that she just wants to go home. This hits home.
Sadness is the perfect character to help anyone, even when she helps Riley get through the changes after moving from Minnesota to San Francisco. To my opinion, Riley has gone through the location grief, first after she move she experienced Denial, but a little bit before Sadness touch her memories of Minnesota during her time and at class. Next when Joy and Sadness were out, she experienced anger thanks to Anger, which might've caused some personality islands to fall. Then in a stage of bargaining, Anger inserts an idea that tells her to run away out of San Francisco back to Minnesota which causes 2 more islands to fall, but thanks to Sadness who remove the idea after she and Joy got back to HQ, the idea was remove that prompt Riley to return back to her parents. With Sadness showing the sad core memories of her life in Minnesota, Riley now has a stage of depression and confess to her parents about missing her life in Minnesota. But to her surprise, her parents too also miss their life in Minnesota as well. With them consoling Riley and with Joy by Sadness side, Riley finally accepts her new life in San Francisco, ending her grief stage thanks to Sadness.
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